SPOTLIGHT: CRISIS INTERVENTION AND THE 988 ROLLOUT
I recommend having police, social workers, and peers work side by side
SCHIZOPHRENIA HAS NOT ROBBED ME OF LIFE’S JOYS
Joy comes in all forms and feels transcendent wherever I experience Life, with or without a mental illness.
SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS
Delusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions can carve out the imaginary and marry it in misleading ways with a person’s orientation. Symptoms like this complicate and distort our reality and sense of self. Fantasies can remain dormant and not escalate. Other illusions break off and form systems […]
RETHINKING TREATMENT FOR NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (NPD)
Psychotherapy’s primary focus should not be symptom management
Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?
I try my best to deal with the cold
Recovery and self-Determination
I believe in self-determination
Psychotic ‘Break’ Survival Skill Kit
Most people don’t realize something is wrong with their thinking
I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
This is a PRO Tobacco Use Argument in Mental Health Settings
This trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys
How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Human Rights Coalition for Latin America Mental Hygiene & Social Justice
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
The Impact of Words on our Psyches
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
The Law does not mean anything to Brazil’s Psychiatric Institutions & Therapists
After Francisco’s passing family started researching and seeking the truth behind Francisco’s sudden death, they learned that he was not the only victim and was not an isolated case.
Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Human Rights Violations in Brazil: The Case of Vavá
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
Cooling Off From the Heat
One hot summer day, we are basking in the sunshine with SPF30 lotion all over our bodies, but it is not enough. Temperature is approaching 95 degrees, and the humidity is about the same. Sun is vital at this hour. Going in and out of the pool, the […]
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
Derangement
if we can’t see these behaviours in ourselves, how would we describe them in other people
Effects Of “Broken Brain Syndrome”
I was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL
We need to discuss Independence
The Value of Good Complex Case Management for Comorbid Psychiatric Issues
However, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given rental violations due to my disorganized apartment.
Found Meditation
The mind cannot literally draw a blank until you’ve mastered the art.
Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
When Creativity Calls, When Your Alibi is Art
Around the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
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