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.
How to Self-Manage Our Frustration
Suppose you cannot maintain safety with yourself or with others.
My Parents’ Support Shaped My Recovery
My parents have been there during the darkest moments of my recovery and during the most triumphant.
Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead
Asking yourself: “What issues seem to pop up consistently?”
What exactly does it mean to be a Peer?
Either we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only use the DSM-5
DO YOU WANT TO BE A VOLUNTEER?
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
No Flowers for People with a Mental Health Disorder
When a person walks into a medical facility, hospital, or otherwise, they walk right past the gift shop.
Choosing Happiness: Health across the Life span
Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune
Dating💘 with a mental health diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.
Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of these precious stops in the system of care as levels of hope.
Interdisciplinary parity: Which is the right clinical pathway forward?
Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners
Understanding the Role of Support when Living with a Chronic and Persistent Mental Health Disorder
Whatever the stressor, life’s negative turns can be due to the impact of mental health symptoms or just tragic extraneous circumstances.
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 […]
Auschwitz and the Liberation of Ruth
We’re survivors”, Ruth said, reminding me yet again that this too shall pass. I worked alongside Ruth at a mental health clinic down in the barrio, 3rd Avenue. The Bronx, as south as it gets before the bridge into Manhattan and slightly further, Queens, Astoria country. Ruth had […]
Auschwitz and the the Liberation of Ruth
I worked alongside Ruth at a mental health clinic down in the bario, 3rd Avenue.
In Response to the Mighty
So, I read an article today on the Mighty titled: “I’m not high functioning- and I’m okay with that”. So, this is more complicated than it seems, to quote the article. In the DSM 4, the GAF or Global Assessment of Functioning, attempts to capture the ability of […]
From The Revisionist: Rise of the Prosumer
“In the future, further work should deconstruct categories of medicine, psychiatry, and social work and encourage strength based approaches that will supplant new-institutionalization and create a new gold standard in treatment” (Maxwell Guttman, Mental Health Diagnosis: Axioms, Continuum, and Future Directions) 2018 “Congratulations, Jacques, on your publication!” Jonas, […]
Why we Adapt
When my illness first struck in 2003 and then again in 2008 I was extremely bitter and angry.
The Benefits of Taking Inventory
Planning for the future means knowing what went wrong and why,?
What exactly does it mean to be a peer?
The peer world is divided. Okay, so that’s not news. Either are the divisions within the mental health community on how to best advocate and push for better health care. However, are we really as divided as it seems? Or are we overlooking fundamentally important aspects about providing […]
The Kindness Rocks Project
The Kindness Rocks Project, founded by Megan Murphy, is about discovering the beauty and profound possibilities of hope in acts of kindness, and has become a grassroots movement. Megan Murphy is the author of A Pebble For Your Thoughts and goes on to explain her work in her […]
Who exactly is J. Peters?
putting “language on notice” (University on Watch, J Peters) from now until the end of time
Behind the Mind with Kevin Meiselman
On episode 7 of Behind the Mind, Max Guttman joins the show to share his experiences with schizophrenia and details the adversity he overcame to live a happy, healthy and productive life. He also shines light on the common misconceptions about schizophrenia and the manner in which the disorder can be treated. This was one of the most inspirational stories I have ever heard, and I can’t thank Max enough for his bravery and willingness to help me reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.
The Prosumer Technocrat🔢🔀
I’m am very much public about my status as a prosumer in the mental health community. I’ve outed myself time and again. People ask me about my book series all the time, which is also very much congruent with my prosumer identity: “Max, what is so different about […]
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