How The Fear Of Self-Disclosure Can Impact Your Mental Health
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
Goals For Happiness and Fulfillment
Reaching your goals takes energy
Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
Solid Ground and the Rescue Line
Everyone knows you have problems
The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment
Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy
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
RELATIONSHIP ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population
How to Define Recovery A Radical Idea
Here’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well a person is doing in recovery.
Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder
Dictate what you want to do in life
Summer Hope Can Lead to Summer Success
What are we dreaming about this year?
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
My life as an Artist with Psychosis
My time playing was plagued by paranoia and hallucinations in the meantime.
Exercising the Right to Speak Out
Clinicians must respect our rights
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
Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
‘Identity Politics’ and Mental Health
Cultural re-appropriation is rife and considered business as usual in Western psychiatry
Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY REVENGE
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
STIGMA: PEER SERVICES, DOUBLE STANDARD, AND SELF-DISCLOSURE
Peers, through the act of self-disclosure, reveal their lived experience at work in the agency all the time.
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
The ‘Sign’, ‘Signified’ and “Psychosis’: The Intersection of Language and Psychosis
Ultimately, the symptoms are overwhelming and become so profound that life becomes too distant and unrecognizable to live without incident.
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