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The Final Solution to the Mental Health Crisis

How To Be More Confident: Ditch Your Ego And Trust Yourself

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 18 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Learned Helplessness and Self-Determination in Mental Health

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 18 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

How to avoid Splitting

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 18 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The Stigma of Mental Illness: How to Overcome It

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 18 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The boundaries and limitations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 17 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Helping Clients Build Insight With Psychotherapy: A Guide For Professionals

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 16 Mar 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Gratitude

By humoroushoward on 19 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Gratitude is closely associated with our mental health

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When Person-Centered Care takes a WRONG turn

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 10 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I’ve been in treatment for severe mental illness my entire adult life.

Resentment

By robertlefever on 10 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

We forgive and forget. Mostly.

Issues of Longevity and Mental Health

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 9 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Issues of Longevity and Mental Health There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average 15–20 years younger than the general population; meaning long-standing chronic illnesses throughout a lifespan will impact the body and its longevity and health. I think this makes complete […]

Embracing 2022 and living in the ‘Now’

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 9 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

2022 must be a time of change

Language and Mental Health: Living and Communicating our Lived Experience

By humoroushoward on 8 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

There is tectonic shift in mental health language

The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment

By Dave Meyers on 8 Nov 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy

Inside the mindset of defeat

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 30 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Operation Clausewitz was the German solution to the military situation in Europe in 1945

I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 28 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments

Going to Social Work school with a Schizophrenia diagnosis

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 22 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms

Consenting to infection~ HEP C and the Pandemic

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 17 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

My mistake was giving up on life

This is a PRO Tobacco Use Argument in Mental Health Settings

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 15 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys

Until when? (Full Translation Espanol/Portugues)

By Human Rights Coalition for Latin America, Mental Health and Social Justice on 11 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

We can learn together that we are stronger even in the face of natural catastrophes—human response and action triumphs in the end.

Partying with a Mental Health Disorder

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 11 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I told him, point-blank, that Medicaid doesn’t pay for out-of-state trips to the ER

RELATIONSHIP ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

By humoroushoward on 9 Oct 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population

How to Self-Manage Our Frustration

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 30 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Suppose you cannot maintain safety with yourself or with others.

Targeting the clinical grey areas in mental health treatment

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 30 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Treating clinical ‘symptoms’ is not the biggest clinical issue

Brazil, LGBTQ, and state-level discrimination

By Human Rights Coalition for Latin America, Mental Health and Social Justice on 30 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

These folks need counselors and mental health resources to address their very ‘normal’ issues with compassion.

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

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 30 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Remaining patients in the long-term state psychiatric centres must be discharged and released from the eternal holding

woman using imac

How to Define Recovery A Radical Idea

By Christina Bruni on 29 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Here’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well a person is doing in recovery.

Advocates that stigmatize

By Max E. Guttman, LCSW on 24 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

At the root of it, they are pathologizing advocates. I have met them.

MYSTERY DUO, WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY

By humoroushoward on 23 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Who is the mystery two-some?

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

By Dave Meyers on 18 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.

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

By Meghan Nelligan on 18 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Sometimes, I felt guilty about keeping my mental health to myself.

Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys

By Human Rights Coalition for Latin America, Mental Health and Social Justice on 9 Sep 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.

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7 Strength-Based Psychotherapy Interventions That Work

How to Manage Self-Harm

Lived Experience »

When Someone Asks, “Are You Okay?”: What to Say (and What Not to Say)

The Rabbi Within Us

From Madness to Healing and back again. The Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue

Peer »

Distinguishing the Diagnosis from the Person: Why It Matters

NARCISSISM, RECOVERY, AND MY STORY

Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?

BOOK REVIEW »

BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE

Disability Visibility

BOOK REVIEW: The Craig Lewis Guide to Surviving the Impossible

PROSUMER »

How The Fear Of Self-Disclosure Can Impact Your Mental Health

ANXIETY AND FRIENDS BE GONE

How does Self-Management work in Practice? 

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