Self Help The Mobility of Recovery 2 Feb 2019 There is an undeniable mobility to recovery. Moving forward in your path to health and healing requires an inertia. From rate of recovery, the very speed and velocity required to…
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… Learned Helplessness Must be Stopped🔴 30 Jan 201930 Jan 2019 One of my biggest struggles as a social worker in the human services is challenging learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a phenomena in which clients, patients, or any person connected…
Education… MHBC 2018 🎩 5 Nov 20187 Nov 2018 There is no question that family participation in a person’s mental health treatment is beneficial and critical to manage the long-standing problems that surface during a person’s recovery from a…
Top stories Our Health and Identity: Choosing Happiness☯️ 27 Oct 201827 Oct 2018 Who we are now, who we were back then, and who we will become one day is a journey marked with fear, etched with courage, driven by strength, and laden…
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,…
Education… The power of Social Work language: a linguistic analysis🔠 16 Oct 201816 Oct 2018 The power of the social work language is rooted in the very words we social workers use everyday. There is no question, that the language of the social work profession…
Adventure… Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗 14 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 At the very end of my semester in undergraduate school, I attended a reception on campus in which I participated in honoring faculty that was special with and dedicated to…
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.…
Adventure… That day I lost my car in Atlantic City (NJ) 11 Aug 201811 Aug 2018 I needed a break from studying, a nightmarish winter session, and not enough sleep. The plan was to meet my friends for a weekend of fun and excitement away from…
Entertainment… Locust lane Park🌳 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 At one point in the activation of my symptoms, particularly mania, I began driving endlessly and purposelessly, without general course or direction. Towards the more intense manic episodes, I would…
Education… The Day I lost my Home🗯 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 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…
Education… Rejected and/or “kicked-out” of Treatment: Untimely discharges and subpar linkages🔄 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 Finding the right treatment fit can be difficult. Not only are therapists important to try-on, so are facilities, programs, and treatment centers. This article evolves out of my experience in…
Facts… Collateral Support: Awarding Merit🎖and Citing Examples of Excellence in Friendship 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 I have not given enough credit to my friends whom have witnessed the most, and been exposed to the most traumatic times in my health and healing. I was never…
Help for Allies… Recovery Now opens in Ardsley New York 5 Aug 20185 Aug 2018 At Recovery Now, our entire staff practices Evidence-Based Treatment and solution-focused therapy. Our individualIzed treatment approach aims to provide support and practical feedback as we help clients address current life…
Top stories Dating💘 with a diagnosis☣️ 4 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 When you have a preexisting label, "baggage", and a mental health diagnosis, there is no question dating becomes more complicated than healthy courting. There are several reasons why finding a…
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…
Adventure… Fully Alive💯 28 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 We all have impairments, limitations, and restrictions. However, choosing to live a full life despite our so-called deficits is critical to feeling happy, fulfilled, and complete. The task ahead then…