Addressing Symptoms… The Revisionist: rise of the prosumer, axioms, and future directions in Mental Health Affairs 18 Aug 2019 When I first began writing about mental health, and topics concerning my own experience with schizophrenia, I was a bit naive. I thought since I lived through "this", meaning, the…
Cover Stories… Lost UOW chapter: $50 dollar bills for Recovery 4 Aug 20194 Aug 2019 My perception was shifting everyday. At first the shift was gradual, eventually dramatically altered. The community appeared different. People seemed to behave differently and have different motives. All I wanted…
Addressing Symptoms… New “Lost Chapter” Chapter of University on Watch: Register Co-sign Arrest 3 Aug 20193 Aug 2019 Handcuffed in front of my house, with broken glass from my car all over the place, I knew I had entered into a whole new phase of contesting admission. This…
Clinical… Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital 31 Jul 20191 Aug 2019 As a clinical social worker, I am always interested in the level of care abstraction that defines systems in medical and mental health facilities. As a person who has had…
Addressing Symptoms… Discharge Planning: Re- Entry into the Community🚸 11 Jul 2019 I've experienced a number of serious planned and unplanned hospitalizations and subsequent discharges. Medical, psychiatric, physical rehabilitation, you name it, I've been discharged from it. Discharge planning should always begin…
Addressing Symptoms… The Revisionist✍️ 19 Jun 2019 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…
Cover Stories… Small Fingernails, Even Less Love💕 10 May 2019 Sometimes, love finds us; other times, love is a trauma that hurls itself into the very fabric of our lives. My experiences at New London University explain how traumatic events…
Education… I am J. Peters and this is my story: University on Watch👁 8 Mar 201915 Apr 2019 I am a rhetoric scholar and a person with lived experience with schizophrenia. I am also a prosumer. My identity aside, the status of Disability studies and narratives, memoirs, and…
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…
Education… MHBC 2018 🎩 5 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…
