The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health
The American School of Human Rights will promote the Mental Health Project in all regions of the world
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Reflections on Mental Health treatment: Recommendations for reform
My overreactions were to behaviors I considered as threatening
THERAPIST JUDGEMENT CALLS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
he client, the same one I requested be transferred, attempted suicide the night before.
Reflections on ‘Peerness’, Social Work and Supported Housing
I love this work
Introducing: Urban Space and Race
Starting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of a series called “Urban Space and Race”
Mental Illness Relapse in the Workplace
Her relapse opened my eyes to an entire unspoken stigma
I stand in support and solidarity for LGBTQ folks and Survivors of all genders
From age 15 to nearly 18, I was a teenage boy with breasts.
Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead
Asking yourself: “What issues seem to pop up consistently?”
THE TRIANGLE OF DISPAIR: A Stain of Disgrace on America
Mental Illness, Incarceration and Quality of Life (Homelessness), a vicious cycle, occurring all too frequently.
The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Your typical ‘crazy’ person or ‘nutbag’
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Neo-Institutionalization: The Overregulation of Community Mental Health
Neo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies in the 1970 and 1980s.
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.
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 […]
I am the Revisionist
“I just want to be somebody!”
Unpacking ‘Intersectionality’ in Academic Research
I was first introduced to interdisciplinary studies and trans-concepts as a student in literature and film while at university.
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
The Myth of High Functioning📊
Most people do not realize that there is no such thing as high-functioning.
Psychiatric Advanced Directives
I have put out flyers and solicited friends & family to fill out applications for my Health Care Proxy
Mental Health Affairs 