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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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… 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…
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…
Cover Stories… The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣 12 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 We all talk about ourselves to other people in our lives. We talk about the day-to-day bullshit, the victories, however small, the good, the bad; all of it. As a…
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…
Cover Stories… The Myth of High Functioning📊 10 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 I hear it all the time working in Mental Health and also as a person carrying a diagnosis. It's a term that is both misused and overused, infantilizing, and laden…
FEATURES Article 🔘 8 Jun 20188 Jun 2018 This following presentation is the long-overdue plan and proposal to the office of mental health to shutdown the state psychiatric centers and discharge all remaining patients to the community. From…
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…
Addressing Symptoms… Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Re-Imagining Treatment 12 May 201813 May 2018 Background:I have been a consumer of mental health services for a litany of diagnoses including but not limited to NPD. With this said, this presentation is intended to explore existing…
Addressing Symptoms… On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work 12 May 2018 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…
Addressing Symptoms… A Story of First Episode Psychosis: From Symptom Activation to Hospitalization 12 May 201811 Jul 2018 Symptom Activation Crossing into Broome County New York my vehicle was immediately pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper insisted that a car was weaving in and out of…