When is sharing too much? Is oversharing a real thing?🗣
I have been accused of several crimes, socially unacceptable behaviors, and a litany of outrageous transgressions during my mental illness.
Category: Self-Management
🅱️iologic Theory
Research must be wholly beneficial to the public, it must be free and rife for regard for society. As a prosumer and mental health interventionist researcher, I have sought nothing but a bold new model…
Change CHRONIC CONDITION Diagnosis health issues LONG TERM CARE positive thinking self control Self Help Self-Management symptoms THEORY
The Fear of Relapsing when you have a Mental Health disorder😱
When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of relapsing
Change help identity Pathway Peer REALITY TESTING Self Help Self-Management Systems Issues Terms THEORY Victim
Learned Helplessness Must be Stopped🔴
One of my biggest struggles as a social worker in human services is challenging learned helplessness.
MHBC LONDON 2018 🎩
There is no question that family participation in a person’s mental health treatment is beneficial and critical to manage the long-standing problems that surface during a person’s recovery from a mental health disorder. This message…
Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.
University on Watch👀: Mental health, Concerns, and Hygiene
to determine if J PETERS is safe to continue as a student, the final statement following the list of concerns and written by the Dean of Harper College
Family Support👪: My parents, Jane and Frank Guttman
But my parents always knew better than whatever the illness spoke, or had me believe
The Mystique of Psychosis
Psychosis is experienced by people carrying its active constellation of corresponding and altogether unique symptoms differently. At different times, along a spectrum, psychosis symptoms exist in a dark harmony, sometimes feeding off one another, and…
Socializing in the Hospital🏥
Peers on the unit each have their own history, their "story" of how they discovered themselves in-patient.
Respecting the Boundaries of Others
Everyone has a personal set of boundaries. These are the personal and professional invisible rules associated with how we decide to rule our interpersonal lives. There is no question that the more evident these boundaries…
Addressing Symptoms (Agitation, Frustration Tolerance)
Self-managing our frustration tolerance throttle can be tricky and requires a great deal of self-awareness and practice.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Re-Imagining Treatment
NPD is complex and bound up in the medicalization of personality issues into pathology through the use of the DSM-5 Diagnostic Manual for Mental Disorders.
On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work
In the summer of 2008, mid-July, I was ready for discharge from Binghamton State Psychiatric Center. Of course, readiness for discharge from a state hospital by no means signals the completion of the healing process,…
Food & Identity: Does A Mental health diagnosis change our relationship with food?
There is no question that food is apart of our identity. What we eat, how, when, where, and if we eat a particular food speaks to our culture, ethnicity, history, and relationship with food. People…
Commitment to Care and Caregiving
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE AND FREEDOM IN CHOOSING OUR CARE HAS BECOME A RIGHT.
The Life & Times of a Person Carrying a Mental Health Diagnosis
There seems to be several types of mental health blogs on the market. Clinical blogs, peer blogs based on personal experiences, hybrid blogs which combine both aspects of recovery, and research re-blogged materials from across…
Chronic Illness & Recovery: Setting the Pace for Sustainable Healing
I highly recommend taking every chance to heal to expect good rejuvenating outcomes.
The Rise of the Health Czar
The Health Czar is the final solution to the mental health crisis in modernity The age old debate of governance extends into mental health and its administration, policy making, and implementation of state and federal…