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…
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…
Addressing Symptoms… Mortality-rates in Health & Medicine: Justifying Unnecessary Mental Health Interventions 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average of 15-20 years younger than the general populations. Studies continue to evidence further data suggesting the…
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…
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.…
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… Family Support👪: My parents, Jane and Frank Guttman 8 Aug 201830 Jan 2019 My parents have been there during the darkest moments of my recovery and during the most triumphant. From the very beginning, my parents have been present with me in my…
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…
Adventure… Socializing in the Hospital🏥 28 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 After being admitted to the hospital, and settling down on the the unit as best as possible, changing into hospital garb, there is little to do than to sit, wait…
Cover Stories… Common Egregiously Misused🚫 Terms in Mental Health⚠️ 20 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 Without question, all of us involved with the mental health system, treatment, peer advocacy, and those with a vested interest in the health and wellness of our friends use language…
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… Mental Health Affairs Celebrates 💯 Articles Published📈 11 Jul 201811 Jul 2018 This is the 100th article posted on Mental Health Affairs. All of us at Mental Health Affairs have aimed to bring readers the most critical and rigorous analytical commentary on…
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…
Cover Stories… Article 🅾️ [British English Edition🇬🇧] 9 Jun 20189 Jun 2018 This paper presents a long-overdue plan and proposal to the office of mental health to close state psychiatric centres and to discharge all remaining patients to the community. From long-term…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms (Agitation, Frustration Tolerance) 12 May 201811 Jul 2018 In the throws of madness I have found some form of peace to hold on to as an anchor in discovering my innermost serenity. Only in the very end of…