De-bunking ACCCEPTANCE and COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)
ACT is a ‘third wave’ behaviour therapy approach with a supposedly ‘expanded perspective on how to guide clients to skilfully self-regulate.emotional distress and conflicting states of mind’,
The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
DO YOU WANT TO BE A VOLUNTEER?
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
DNR, Sign me Up
Do Not RESUSCITATE, PLEASE. DNR orders, or Do Not Resuscitate orders, aren’t very tricky when it comes to the law and how the law is carried out and interpreted by doctors and patients embarking on a palliative care end of life plan. A DNR order means do not […]
Politics and the ‘status’ of our National Mindset
Amid the struggle, heartache, loss, betrayal, and disappointment can be not easy to find the strength and motivation to keep going in life.
Combating STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION
The words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
The Early Warning System
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
I was just following orders…
Are you complicit in using similar rhetoric to achieve your aim and hide your intentions?
The Mental Health Advocacy Spectruum
Why are these the poster patients of AOT? Because the most severely ‘disordered’ folks do not benefit from AOT.
Fall Sports 2020, Not Like it Used To Be
In 2020, sports is not like it used to be
I’m a Social Worker: My Mental Health and Well-being Have Been Put to the Test by COVID-19
Working together, I am fully convinced this crisis will only embolden our mission and strengthen our skills further in the social work profession.
ELECTION DAY WITH OCD
ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA LEANING TO BIDEN ALASKA, NORTH CAROLINA LEANING TO TRUMP Hello everyone, and welcome back to Election Central, coming from an undisclosed place somewhere on Long Island. This is Tuesday, November 3, and I have been reporting from Long Island for several hours. My role […]
Defeat and Living Another Day
There is an abundance of research out there on the psychology of victory, winning, leadership and all things laden with positivity. What about the psychology of defeat?
Fear of Embracing ‘Lived Experience’
In my profession particularly, the helping field, and for all of us that simply enjoy time spent in others’ companies, there is an unspoken fear that the person we are speaking to won’t listen or isn’t listening.
How to Cope with the loss of a Therapist or Case Manager
Patients want to know how they will survive after their workers
retire or move on to a new position somewhere else in the mental health system.
is Mental Illness a disability?
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABUSED BY MEDIA
Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
LABOR DAY OR LABOUR DAY ?
Labor Day or Labour Day, which is correct?
Do you want ‘Total’ Recovery?
Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.
Dating💘 with a mental health diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.
The ‘New Norm’: this is as good as it gets
The only issue is what constitutes ‘help’? Professionals in mental health cant agree.
Operation Psych-OUT
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed to this calling….
SECOND HALF SUMMER THROUGH TV
From me to everyone reading this article, enjoy August, the rest of this summer and all of the “Days of Our Lives”
HI EVERYONE!
HI EVERYONE! My name is Howard Diamond. Starting in November 2017, I have been a New York State Certified Peer Specialist, and I reside on Long Island. For over twenty-five years, my work life and experiences lie mostly in the Mental Health Field.
BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she has endured in a domineering Arabic “courtship”
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