Cover Stories… The Fear of Relapsing when you have a Mental Health disorder😱 30 Jan 2019 When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of relapsing. Whether you have a chronic long standing condition, or are suffering from a new diagnosis,…
Addressing Symptoms… Attention Seeking Behavior(s)🤳🏽 29 Oct 201829 Oct 2018 I have a profound fascination with attention seeking behavior(s). I am also profoundly clever at capturing the attention of my peers, family, and friends. Let's be completely honest, some of…
Education… Kendra Died for US💝 17 Oct 201830 Jan 2019 I've said it before and I will say it again. I am an overweight Jewish man from New York State with an active schizophrenia diagnosis. I have been committed to…
Education… Continuing Education 🔄 17 Oct 201817 Oct 2018 I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation. At that time, I was floridly psychotic,…
Adventure… University on Watch👀: Mental health, Concerns, and Hygiene 12 Aug 201810 Sep 2018 Sometimes, school crises erupt on college campus's unexpectedly. Other times, there is a slow build up of tension before the crescendo. The crescendo can be violence, hate speech, or any…
Adventure… The Strategist🎱 12 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 There is very little myself or anyone knows about the life or even whereabouts of Dr. H today. I can only speak for ten years ago. And very little information,…
Addressing Symptoms… The Changing of Signs🔮 11 Aug 201811 Aug 2018 I have said before that there is no universal way or signified to capturing or expressing in words the experience of psychosis. I might have been wrong about this claim.…
Addressing Symptoms… Center-staging, displays, and untoward behavior 5 Aug 20185 Aug 2018 I have witnessed the most obscene, ornate, loud, and grandest displays from people I work with both clients and colleagues. Center-staging isn't just about the magnitude and lengths gone through…
Adventure… The Mystique of Psychosis 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Psychosis is experienced by people carrying its active constellation of corresponding and altogether unique symptoms differently. At different times, along a spectrum, psychosis symptoms exist in a dark harmony, sometimes…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms: Extended Metaphors, Ideas-of-Reference 28 Jul 201828 Jul 2018 I was an English major in college. Like many students studying language, I loved words, meaning-making, and using rhetoric to both dazzle and re-orient my listener to whatever I was…
Addressing Symptoms… The Criminalization🚨of Mental Illness 15 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 There are a lot of articles out there all over the internet, newspapers, and mental health forums talking about the increasing violence in the community stemming from inadequate mental health…
Education… Addressing Symptoms: Stilted Language, Perseveration, Word Salad 13 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 Anyone who knows me personally or professionally is aware of my love of language. As a person diagnosed with schizophrenia and a lover of language, the road to recovery and…
Cover Stories… The Myth of High Functioning📊 10 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 I hear it all the time working in Mental Health and also as a person carrying a diagnosis. It's a term that is both misused and overused, infantilizing, and laden…
Addressing Symptoms… Respecting the Boundaries of Others 10 Jul 201811 Jul 2018 Everyone has a personal set of boundaries. These are the personal and professional invisible rules associated with how we decide to rule our interpersonal lives. There is no question that…
Addressing Symptoms… Repositioning symptomatology for mental health conditions post DSM-5 7 Jun 20187 Jun 2018 In the throes of madness, I have found some form of peace to hold on to like an anchor while discovering my innermost serenity. Only at the very end of…
Addressing Symptoms… On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work 12 May 2018 In the summer of 2008, mid-July, I was ready for discharge from Binghamton State Psychiatric Center. Of course, readiness for discharge from a state hospital by no means signals the…
Addressing Symptoms… Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead: The Early Warning System 18 Mar 2018 The worst thing in the world is to have had the opportunity to fix or resolve a problem and to sit on one's hands or let the chance pass us…