How The Fear Of Self-Disclosure Can Impact Your Mental Health
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABUSED BY MEDIA
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!
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
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
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 his name, but many of his ideas have helped people recover from Mental Wellness and Chemical/Drug Addiction and leading successful lives. Several years […]
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 myriad of things that have occured. For me, the month of June itself has been bittersweet in which both good and bad occurrences […]
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 began shortly after the completion of Small Fingernails Even Less Love, which chronicles the impact of my mental health condition on events leading […]
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 months, I have been calling and trying to reach my care manager. I left message after message for weeks for this person. It’s […]
Decriminalizing Mental Illness👿
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
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 social work in a university. As a field instructor, I am the point person in the field where social work students at the […]
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 “sick” person. This recovery narrative is different. This is a story about struggle, ongoing collateral pushback from friends, and internalized self-doubt. Chronic illness, […]
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 Fingernails, Even Less Love 💕 , there has been undeniable chatter in the literary world. Upon hearing the new novella was, in fact, […]
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.
The Day I lost my Home🗯
This was to be the first semester of my graduate education in English. I had just completed 19 winter session credits across five universities in New York State. After this last semester with my friends still students at Binghamton, i would enter into a JD law school program […]
Addressing Symptoms: Stilted Language, Perseveration, Word Salad
To this day, my speech continues to heal, and I am being more vigilant these days about the quality and content of wording and status of my language.
The Myth of High Functioning📊
Most people do not realize that there is no such thing as high-functioning.
MHBC2018
Psychreg will host the 1st Mental Health Bloggers Conference (MHBC 2018) in London on 15th December 2018 – and as part of the event we will also recognise mental health bloggers for their contributions to increase understanding of mental health issues, and provide support to those that live […]
On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work
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 completion of the healing process, but it does set the stage for what would become a decade of […]
Food & Identity: Does A Mental health diagnosis change our relationship with food?
There is no question that food is apart of our identity. What we eat, how, when, where, and if we eat a particular food speaks to our culture, ethnicity, history, and relationship with food. People with a mental health diagnosis are no exception. & yet, in hospitals, specifically […]
A Story of First Episode Psychosis: From Symptom Activation to Hospitalization
This is the climax scene. Everyone is here for your big finish”. I was ecstatic. My movie, according to the voices, was finally over. We could all be together again.
Selfless Living
”soliciting my grandmother for money for a project and then, when she told my mother, I denied the event, blaming her misunderstanding of my behavior on her dementia…’ I’ve lived a rich & privileged life. In my youth I was resistant and disagreeable, at time challenging my peers, […]
The Admission of Guilt
We all have our regrets. I have suggested time and again our darkest hours can be re-framed as learning moments. This is impossible unless we admit we are wrong or have contributed to the problem. People make all kinds of mistakes. Some small, some big, and sometimes catastrophic […]
TOO BIG TO FAIL
Some things are too important to disappear or die off.
TRANSFORMATIVE PATHWAYS FOR INDENTIFYING CONCERNS IN THE HUMANITIES: CONTESTING ADMISSION
The 10 year Anniversary Edition Max E. Guttman has “no purpose or reason {} for being {} in the department” (The People of New the State of New York VS. Max E. Guttman, 2008) Background: Contesting Admission is one extended metaphor that seeks to capture the events unfolding in […]
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