Rethinking Progress: Why Measuring Change In Mental Health Treatment Can Be Misleading
Measuring progress can help to identify patterns of change
Recovery Is A Journey: How To Use Your Lived Experience To Help You Heal
You are the expert on your lived experience
7 Strength-Based Psychotherapy Interventions That Work
Focus on the client’s strengths
How to Manage Self-Harm
Self-harm is a way to cope with difficult emotions
PANIC IN SENIOR PARK
Take responsibility for your winter years
Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?
Peers perform the same responsibilities, duties, and tasks as their higher-paid counterparts
ADULTS SHOULD CRY MORE OFTEN
I suggest adults cry more often
Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
How can we further refine the language around mental health?”
CELEBRATING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
There are significant reasons for having Mental Health Awareness Month.
We need Human Rights in Mental Health
Life is the greatest of all Rights
Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?
I try my best to deal with the cold
The problem with measuring progress in treatment
Therapists monitor the progress of their patients.
Where the Past Meets the Future
And tomorrow, we will be what we are today
Solid Ground and the Rescue Line
Everyone knows you have problems
The ‘System’
I have worked at various levels of the mental health system
Resentment
We forgive and forget. Mostly.
Until when? (Full Translation Espanol/Portugues)
We can learn together that we are stronger even in the face of natural catastrophes—human response and action triumphs in the end.
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.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Calmigo Reviewed: AromaScam?
Initially, it seemed like an exciting purchase
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
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.
Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
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