Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
My overreactions were to behaviors I considered as threatening
he client, the same one I requested be transferred, attempted suicide the night before.
I love this work
Starting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of a series called “Urban Space and Race”
Her relapse opened my eyes to an entire unspoken stigma
The mental health movement was a civil rights movement, but what happened?
From age 15 to nearly 18, I was a teenage boy with breasts.
Success and failure are different for each of us, but we do strive for the former
Under the auspices of the local DCMH, the county entry points use SPOA/SPOE (Single Point of Access/Entry), filled out by clinicians applying for services for their patients.
Mental Illness, Incarceration and Quality of Life (Homelessness), a vicious cycle, occurring all too frequently.
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Neo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies in the 1970 and 1980s.
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 […]
Amid the struggle, heartache, loss, betrayal, and disappointment can be not easy to find the strength and motivation to keep going in life.
The words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
Are you complicit in using similar rhetoric to achieve your aim and hide your intentions?
The only time mental health issues makes the news is when some tragic involves someone with mental illness.
Why are these the poster patients of AOT? Because the most severely ‘disordered’ folks do not benefit from AOT.
Finding the self, soul’s truth is essential for spiritual life.
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