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• PROSUMER

Common Values of Peer Specialists

• ACADEMIA

The Dr. Low Chronicles, No. 1

• BOOK

The Original Peer Support Recovery and Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum

• BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE

• THEORY

What is the connection between mental illnesses and violence?

• GUIDE
• Howard Diamond

HONEST, AM I LYING?                

• J.PETERS
• REALITY TESTING
• THEORY

The CIA and the Belgium Government

• AFFECT
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• HOUSING
• positive thinking

SCHIZOPHRENIA HAS NOT ROBBED ME OF LIFE’S JOYS

• BELIEFS
• Future

MY STORY: MENTAL RELAPSE

• ACADEMIA
• Change
• Reform
• revision
• systems issues
• THEORY

The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health

• CHRONIC CONDITION
• neurology
• Peer Specialist

I’m sixty-four, and I’m alive.

• ACADEMIA
• human rights issues
• THEORY

The intersection of the Law, Justice, and Mental Health

• ACADEMIA

Establishing the 1st International Treaty for Rights and Duties in Mental Health

• BELIEFS
• Reform

Deputy Director of South American Affairs

• Systems Issues

CELEBRATING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

• Poetry

Resilience is my great love

• PROSUMER

GOOD SUPPORT IS VITAL FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

• human rights issues

We need Human Rights in Mental Health

• PROSUMER

GRIEVING YOUR PAST ‘SELF’

• Independent Living

Managing Your Mental Health on the Job

• PROSUMER

Help! Mom and Dad Didn’t Teach Me How to Live in This Crazy World

• CLINICAL

SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS

• Howard Diamond
• Peer Specialist

MODIFYING A CULTURE THROUGH WELLNESS 

• CLINICAL

RETHINKING TREATMENT FOR NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (NPD)

• PROSUMER

Little Itty Bits of Fear

• PROSUMER

HOW TO BENEFIT THE MOST FROM YOUR MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY

• Peer Specialist

FINDING THE COURAGE TO BREAK FREE

• Poetry

MARCHING AHEAD

• Systems Issues

TREATMENT FIT WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS

• Poetry

TELLING MY STORY

• Poetry

MY BATTLE CRY

• Poetry

Green Grass No More

• PROSUMER

How do social workers define help

• BELIEFS
• Change
• PROSUMER
• Terms
• THEORY

The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣

• Change
• compulsion
• DRAMA
• GUIDE
• Health
• Howard Diamond
• Lifestyle
• positive thinking
• Transformation

Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?

• PROSUMER

Winter can be challenging when you have a mental health condition

• ACADEMIA
• BELIEFS
• BOOK REVIEW

Disability Visibility

• PROSUMER

A Little Help From My Friends

• PROSUMER

HOPE FOR EVERY SEASON

• PROSUMER

HOW DATING APPS WORSENED MY MENTAL HEALTH

• PROSUMER

New Freedom, The Manifesto of J. Peters

• PROSUMER

On-and-on-and-on-ymous

• ACADEMIA
• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CLINICAL
• Commitment
• Comorbid
• GUIDE
• Health
• Self-Management

Recovery and self-Determination

• PROSUMER

The problem with measuring progress in treatment

Psychotic ‘Break’ Survival Skill Kit

• PROSUMER

STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION ARE HERE, but SO IS HOPE!

• PROSUMER

Where the Past Meets the Future

• Diagnosis
• health issues
• identity
• Muse
• Peer
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• Terms

Solid Ground and the Rescue Line

• PROSUMER

The ‘System’

• PROSUMER

Gratitude

• PROSUMER

When Person-Centered Care takes a WRONG turn

• BELIEFS
• PROSUMER

Resentment

• PROSUMER

Issues of Longevity and Mental Health

• PROSUMER

Embracing 2022 and living in the ‘Now’

• PROSUMER

Language and Mental Health: Living and Communicating our Lived Experience

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• Diagnosis
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• health issues
• identity
• Reform
• Systems Issues
• THEORY

The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment

• PROSUMER

Inside the mindset of defeat

• Change
• Crisis
• Future
• health issues
• help
• INTERN
• Pathway
• Peer
• Student
• THEORY

I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH

• ACADEMIA
• BELIEFS
• Diagnosis
• HEALTH HOMES
• Independent Living
• Self-Management
• social worker
• Student
• symptoms

Going to Social Work school with a Schizophrenia diagnosis

• PROSUMER

Consenting to infection~ HEP C and the Pandemic

• Change
• health issues
• help
• no smoking
• Science
• self control
• Self Help
• Terms

This is a PRO Tobacco Use Argument in Mental Health Settings

• PROSUMER

Until when? (Full Translation Espanol/Portugues)

• PROSUMER

Partying with a Mental Health Disorder

• complicit
• identity
• PROSUMER
• Terms

RELATIONSHIP ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

• PROSUMER

How to Self-Manage Our Frustration

• PROSUMER

Targeting the clinical grey areas in mental health treatment

• Change
• GUIDE
• human rights issues
• Independent Living
• Reform

SPECIAL REPORT: Re-thinking ‘Extended Care’ units in State Hospital Centers

• PROSUMER
• Terms

How to Define Recovery A Radical Idea

• PROSUMER

Advocates that stigmatize

• PROSUMER

MYSTERY DUO, WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• Change
• CLINICAL
• Intervention
• neurology
• PROSUMER

How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting

• ACADEMIA
• BELIEFS
• depression
• health issues
• PROSUMER
• Student

I am a mental health advocate, but still feel shame about my own struggles at times.

• Change
• CLINICAL
• complicit
• Crisis
• FASCISM
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• Future
• health issues
• human rights issues
• Intervention
• LONG TERM CARE
• Reform

Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys

• BELIEFS
• Howard Diamond
• POETRY
• TIME
• Transformation

Another September Morn

• CHRONIC CONDITION
• health issues
• Intervention
• Peer
• PROSUMER
• symptoms

Healthy fascinations went awry

• Abuse
• ACADEMIA
• Change
• Crisis
• Diagnosis
• Health
• help
• human rights issues
• Intervention
• Reform
• Systems Issues

Human Rights Coalition for Latin America Mental Hygiene & Social Justice

• BELIEFS
• Change
• Craig Lewis
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• J.PETERS
• Muse
• Peer
• positive thinking
• PROSUMER
• REALITY TESTING
• Stress-free

The Impact of Words on our Psyches

• health issues
• Independent Living
• Peer
• Peer Specialist
• PROSUMER

Peers betraying Peers, and Relapse

• Abuse
• brazil
• Change
• Crisis
• Diagnosis
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• Health
• health issues
• human rights issues
• Independent Living
• Politics
• Reform
• Systems Issues

Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil

• ACADEMIA
• Change
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• depression
• DISABILITIES
• Future
• GUIDE
• Health
• health issues
• identity
• Independent Living
• J. PETERS
• Lifestyle
• PROSUMER
• self control
• Site Founder
• social worker
• Student

Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder

• Abuse
• ACADEMIA
• Change
• Crisis
• family
• Future
• Health
• health issues
• Politics
• Reform
• Systems Issues

Human Rights Violations in Brazil: The Case of Vavá

• Entertainment
• GUIDE
• Health
• help
• Howard Diamond
• Lifestyle
• PROSUMER
• self control
• Self Help
• Wildlife

Cooling Off From the Heat

• Diagnosis
• Health
• health issues
• PROSUMER
• REALITY TESTING
• soul

Different Perspective On Schizophrenic Delusion

• product review
• PROSUMER

Calmigo Reviewed: AromaScam?

• Intervention
• Peer
• PROSUMER
• Reform

Crisis Interventions: Cops. Peers. What is the right path forward?

• BELIEFS
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• Health
• identity
• PROSUMER
• symptoms
• Terms
• THEORY

An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”

• Change
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• identity
• Independent Living
• Music
• Pathway
• PROSUMER
• Reform
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• Systems Issues
• Transformation

My life as an Artist with Psychosis

• Abuse
• Change
• Diagnosis
• Future
• Health
• health issues
• identity
• Peer
• Peer Specialist
• PROSUMER
• Reform
• social worker
• symptoms

Exercising the Right to Speak Out 

• addict
• BELIEFS
• Commitment
• compulsion
• DRAMA
• help
• PROSUMER
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management

Derangement

• BELIEFS
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• identity
• PROSUMER
• symptoms
• Systems Issues
• Terms

Effects Of “Broken Brain Syndrome”

• BELIEFS
• Change
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• Commitment
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• Future
• health issues
• identity
• Independent Living
• Peer Specialist
• positive thinking
• PROSUMER
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Terms

INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CLINICAL
• Comorbid
• Diagnosis
• DISABILITIES
• GUIDE
• Health
• health issues
• Lifestyle
• LONG TERM CARE
• PROSUMER
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• THEORY

The Value of Good Complex Case Management for Comorbid Psychiatric Issues

• BELIEFS
• DRAMA
• PROSUMER
• TIME
• TURNING

ALWAYS TURNING AND TURNING

• Abuse
• Childhood Trauma
• Diagnosis
• Future
• identity
• MA
• Pathway
• Peer
• Peer Specialist
• PROSUMER
• Vengeance
• Victim

Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life

• identity
• Politics
• REALITY TESTING
• Terms

‘Identity Politics’ and Mental Health

• Change
• CLINICAL
• depression
• Diagnosis
• Health
• health issues
• identity
• Lifestyle
• Melancholia
• pandemic
• PROSUMER
• symptoms
• Terms

Melancholy

• ACADEMIA
• CLINICAL
• Commitment
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• PROSUMER
• Student
• symptoms

When Creativity Calls, When Your Alibi is Art

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• CLINICAL
• Commitment
• GHETTO
• GUIDE
• HOUSING
• Pathway
• PROSUMER
• symptoms

My journey in mental health housing and recommendations for change and reform

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CLINICAL
• Commitment
• Self Help

Systems-based disparities for African American Medicaid Recipients in the NY OMH Article 31 Clinic

• AFFECT
• love and romance
• POETRY

Finding Higher Purpose in Affection

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CLINICAL
• Crisis
• Eddie Franklin jr.
• Fighting against Mental Illness
• help
• identity
• Muse
• Self Help
• Vengeance
• Victim

MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY REVENGE

• CLINICAL
• CRIAG LEWIS
• DNR
• END OF LIFE CARE
• GUIDE
• Health
• LONG TERM CARE
• Self Help
• Self-Management

T50 Project: The Mental Health Affairs Euthanasia Program

• Health
• Pathway
• positive thinking
• PROSUMER
• Self Help
• THEORY

Upward mobility: Steering recovery in the right direction

• CHRONIC CONDITION
• CLINICAL
• Crisis
• Health
• health issues
• help
• HOUSING
• LONG TERM CARE
• positive thinking
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• THEORY

Plan B: Relapse and reconstitution  

• ACADEMIA
• Change
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• identity
• Lifestyle
• Pathway
• Peer
• revision
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Terms
• THEORY

Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool  

• PROSUMER

Socializing with the Insane

• identity
• Peer
• THEORY

STIGMA: PEER SERVICES, DOUBLE STANDARD, AND SELF-DISCLOSURE

• THEORY

From sickness to illness, we have now birthed the modern mental health disorder

• bipolar disorder
• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• HOUSING
• LONG TERM CARE
• Self Help
• symptoms

Eleven years and no progress

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• Change
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• GUIDE
• health issues
• Reform
• revision
• symptoms
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY

Reflections on Mental Health treatment: Recommendations for reform

• Change
• CLINICAL
• Crisis
• help
• identity
• Peer
• revision
• Terms
• THEORY

THERAPIST JUDGEMENT CALLS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

• CLINICAL
• EVICTION
• GHETTO
• GUIDE
• HEALTH HOMES
• health issues
• HOUSING
• identity
• INTERN
• PROSUMER
• Reform
• revision
• sleeping
• symptoms
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY
• Victim

Reflections on ‘Peerness’, Social Work and Supported Housing

• CLINICAL
• Crisis
• Diagnosis
• PROSUMER
• REALITY TESTING
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Terms
• THEORY

The ‘Sign’, ‘Signified’ and “Psychosis’: The Intersection of Language and Psychosis

• bipolar disorder
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• identity
• LONG TERM CARE
• PROSUMER
• REALITY TESTING
• self control
• Self Help
• symptoms
• Terms

Lack of caring can create unthinkable tragedy

• Change
• Crisis
• EVICTION
• Future
• GENTRIFICATION
• GERRYMANDERING
• GHETTO
• GUIDE
• Pathway
• Reform
• revision
• Self Help
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY

Introducing: Urban Space and Race

• Childhood Trauma
• CLINICAL
• help
• J.PETERS
• PROSUMER
• social worker
• Student

What is considered ‘normal’ behavior for a teenager in High School?

• Diagnosis
• Entertainment
• help
• INTERN
• NAMI
• Peer
• positive thinking
• PROSUMER
• Self Help
• social worker
• Student
• Systems Issues
• volunteering

VOLUNTEERING FOR OUR MENTAL HEALTH

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• help
• symptoms

The relationship between “Inner work” and Symptom Management

• Change
• Future
• NAMI
• Reform

Blockages to reforming the ‘system’

• CASE MANAGEMENT
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• help
• LONG TERM CARE
• Self-Management
• symptoms

The ‘Point’ Person: Care-Coordination

• Crisis
• health issues
• help
• Pathway
• REALITY TESTING
• revision
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• THEORY

Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead

• Diagnosis
• health issues
• NPD
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• THEORY
• Victim

SNL’s ‘LOCO’ Speaks a Truth about ‘Displays’ rooted in Mental Illness

• CLINICAL
• Entertainment
• Howard Diamond
• POETRY
• Self Help
• Self-Management

LADY MACBETH AND OCD

• BIDEN
• Celebrities
• Change
• COVID-19
• Crisis
• ELECTION 2020
• Future
• Howard Diamond
• identity
• Peer
• positive thinking
• racism
• Reform
• Systems Issues
• TRUMP

FEBRUARY STILL REFLECTING ON DECEMBER

• Diagnosis
• identity
• Peer
• PROSUMER
• Terms
• THEORY

What exactly does it mean to be a Peer?

• BOOK REVIEW
• Self Help

BOOK REVIEW: Better Days by Craig Lewis (CPS)

• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• help
• Science
• self control
• THEORY

De-bunking ACCCEPTANCE and COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)

• Childhood Trauma
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• Diagnosis
• Self Help

Undiagnosed (Part Two): Schizophrenia or Wicked Healing (East Coast Slang)

• Change
• health issues
• help
• identity
• PROSUMER
• revision
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY

The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments

• Change
• help
• Howard Diamond
• positive thinking
• Self Help
• Student
• Systems Issues
• volunteering

DO YOU WANT TO BE A VOLUNTEER?  

• Diagnosis
• DISABILITIES
• HEALTH HOMES
• health issues
• Reform
• revision
• Self Help
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY

HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?

• Abuse
• Childhood Trauma
• Victim

Undiagnosed (Part One): Why Was I Given a Psychiatric Diagnosis?

• Change
• Diagnosis
• Future
• health issues
• Muse
• Pathway
• Reform
• revision
• Self Help
• Systems Issues
• THEORY

Neo-Institutionalization: The Overregulation of Community Mental Health

• POETRY

LOOK, LOOK AHEAD 2021

• Howard Diamond
• identity
• POETRY
• THEORY

GOODBYE IS STILL GOODBYE  

• Crisis
• Diagnosis
• Future
• health issues
• help
• THEORY

DNR, Sign me Up

• Change
• ELECTION 2020
• Future
• health issues
• help
• Peer
• positive thinking
• Reform
• revision

Politics and the ‘status’ of our National Mindset

• Howard Diamond
• positive thinking
• Reform
• Self Help
• Terms
• THEORY

Combating STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION

• identity
• Self Help
• Terms
• THEORY

BINARY RELATIONSHIPS COMPLICATING THE CLINICAL PROCESS

• EMBER MANOS BELLE
• identity
• Muse
• Pathway
• Self Help

The Doors of Perception

• AFFECT
• Change
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• help
• positive thinking
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Terms

The Early Warning System

• Crisis
• FASCISM
• Future
• identity
• Reform
• Self Help
• Terms
• WORLD WAR TWO

I was just following orders…

• Change
• Diagnosis
• help
• Reform
• Systems Issues

The Mental Health Advocacy Spectruum

• Entertainment
• sports

Fall Sports 2020, Not Like it Used To Be

• bipolar disorder
• health issues
• Peer
• Science
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• sleeping
• symptoms

Sleeping Amid the Ruins

• BIDEN
• Diagnosis
• ELECTION 2020
• Entertainment
• help
• revision
• Self Help
• symptoms
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• TRUMP

ELECTION DAY WITH OCD

• Diagnosis
• Entertainment
• self control
• symptoms

ANXIETY: SIMILAR FOR HAMLET AND FOR US

• friends
• self control
• social worker
• Terms

Keeping your Head Above Water

• Change
• Diagnosis
• identity

Mental Ilness: Who Am I?

• Change
• Diagnosis
• identity
• J. PETERS
• Peer
• Reform
• revision
• Self Help

I am the Revisionist

• Entertainment
• friends
• visiting Mcdaggot

Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life

• Diagnosis
• gift
• Peer
• Systems Issues
• visitors

No Flowers for People with a Mental Health Disorder

• Peer

Adversity and Personal Growth

• Peer

Explosive Behaviors and IED

• ACADEMIA
• Change
• Future
• Reform
• revision
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY

Unpacking ‘Intersectionality’ in Academic Research

• health issues
• identity
• Peer
• Science
• symptoms
• Terms
• THEORY

In Response to the Mighty ‘I Have a Mental Illness…And I’m Fine with That ‘.

• Movies
• Science

Robocop 2 Reflections

Fear of Embracing ‘Lived Experience’

• Entertainment
• Peer

HALLOWEENS, PAST AND PRESENT

How to Cope with the loss of a Therapist or Case Manager

• Howard Diamond

SELF-STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION using self-thinking 

is Mental Illness a disability?

• Peer

From Madness to Healing and back again: An Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue

• Peer

The Peer Standard⚖️

Assesing the impact of ‘First Episode Psychosis’ on Speech

• Science

Use of Metaphors in the Therapy office 🕵️‍♂️

LABOR DAY OR LABOUR DAY ?

• CHRONIC CONDITION
• Diagnosis
• DISABILITIES
• health issues
• Pathway
• positive thinking
• PROSUMER
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• symptoms
• Terms
• THEORY

Do you want ‘Total’ Recovery?

• AFFECT
• bipolar disorder

Choosing Happiness: Health across the Life span

Dating💘 with a mental health diagnosis☣️

• Peer

This is what the Mental Health system does…

Operation Psych-OUT

SECOND HALF SUMMER THROUGH TV               

HI EVERYONE!

BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle

Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital

STIGMA OR POSSIBLY DISCRIMINATION? 

BOOK REVIEW: Life with Voices by Dmitriy Gutkovich

• health issues
• Pathway
• racism
• Reform
• revision
• Self Help
• Systems Issues
• Terms
• THEORY
• Victim
• volunteering

Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness

Interdisciplinary parity: Which is the right clinical pathway forward?

• PROSUMER

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Breakdown’ by Lynn Nanos

• CHRONIC CONDITION
• CLINICAL
• Diagnosis
• health issues
• Peer
• PROSUMER
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• THEORY

Understanding the Role of Support when Living with a Chronic and Persistent Mental Health Disorder

JUNE IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER, … MAYBE NOT!

(Re)-Defining the Language of Mental Health EVEN Further

The Great Stingie War

BOOK REVIEW: Climbing toward November

Cutting. Emotional Numbness and Pain. (Content/Trigger warning🔴)

City Voices Asks You to Get Involved

• CANCER
• self control
• Victim
• visitors

Auschwitz and the the Liberation of Ruth

• Intervention
• Self Help
• social worker
• Systems Issues

The War-Time Social Worker

• Peer

The Peer Support System Within Mental Health Is Broken and We Need to Fix It

• Entertainment

Lexington and Fifth

• Entertainment

County Speak: Air Date April 2006; Episode: Crossing Guard Jimmy

• Entertainment

Cynthia’s Final Farewell

• Entertainment

T.K.O Kim

• Peer
• Science

What does Best Practices really mean when it comes to Mental Health treatment?

• Science

Why we Adapt

• AFFECT
• Change
• CLINICAL
• pandemic
• Pathway
• positive thinking
• REALITY TESTING
• self control
• Self Help
• Self-Management
• THEORY

The Benefits of Taking Inventory

The Kindness Rocks Project

• Celebrities
• CHRONIC CONDITION
• Entertainment
• FICTION
• friends
• HOUSING
• identity
• LONG TERM CARE
• Movies
• PROSUMER
• REALITY TESTING
• Self Help
• sleeping
• symptoms
• visitors
• vistors

The J Peters Reality Tour🤷‍♂️

• Entertainment

The Revisionist✍️: Rise of the Prosumer (Chapters 1&2)