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
RELATIONSHIP ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population
Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder
Dictate what you want to do in life
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.
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
Lack of caring can create unthinkable tragedy
I find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my life.
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.
FEBRUARY STILL REFLECTING ON DECEMBER
Success and failure are different for each of us, but we do strive for the former
What exactly does it mean to be a Peer?
Either we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only use the DSM-5
The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Selfies Rule In the Psycho World
Here we have the emotionally disturbed person in all his narcissistic glory scheming for attention.
Your typical ‘crazy’ person or ‘nutbag’
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
GOODBYE IS STILL GOODBYE
Adios, arrivederci, au revoir, shalom, ciao, goodbye.
All of them say goodbye, but they say much, much more…
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