Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
Tag: Experience in Mental Health
From Madness to Healing and back again: An Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue
I have become the very social enigma that evokes fear amongst his own peers
The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
Preface to University on Watch: Crisis in the Academy (J PETERS)
I am a rhetoric scholar and a person living with schizophrenia
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
Objectification has been mobilized to create and propagate lies and other “isms”
Obituary: William Anthony, 77
William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston University has died. He was 77. Everyone does not know
JUNE IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER, … MAYBE NOT!
“June is bustin’ out all over”, is a song from the musical, “Carousel”. Yes, but is June really bustin’ out this year? There are a
2010-2020 A Decade of “Returns” and New Directions💫
As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed, and awe-inspiring ten years of
The House Negro: Remastered
I am suggesting the peer is the allegory of the American South’s mulatto in a world where animalism has supplanted reason for hate.
The Revisionist✍️: Rise of the Prosumer (Chapters 1&2)
Preface The Revisionist describes events I experienced beginning in 2008, the year that I graduated from college at New England University. However, the actual writing
A Fond Farewell to Mary✌️
The pictures posted are from a secretly videotaped meeting with my care manager and his director at a non-profit agency in Westchester NY. For three
Decriminalizing Mental Illness👿
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
Lost Chapter of University on Watch “The Dying Man”
After moving into my new home, I truly wanted to make it place of self-care, joy, and peace. Things went so poorly where I had
New “Lost Chapter” Chapter of University on Watch: Register Co-sign Arrest
Handcuffed in front of my house, with broken glass from my car all over the place, I knew I had entered into a whole new
What keeps me pushing forward?
I am field instructor for graduate and undergraduate student in social work going for their bachelors and masters degrees. I am also a professor of
The Revisionist✍️
Far too many stories and firsthand accounts of recovery are terminal and end with a cure or picturesque life for the consumer of services or
The Trilogy 📚3️⃣
The time is upon us! I need to address the ongoing rumors circulating around my writing. Ever since I have announced a second novella, Small
I am J. Peters and this is my story: University on Watch👁
I am a rhetoric scholar and a person with lived experience with schizophrenia.
Continuing Education 🔄
I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation.
Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.