Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding…

There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.

Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune

This article explores symptoms that complicate interpersonal relationships and interfere with pro-social interactions

I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of…

I am a rhetoric scholar and a person living with schizophrenia

Objectification has been mobilized to create and propagate lies and other “isms”

Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners

At the root of it, these case examples, while vivid, and telling of the extreme dysfunction in the system, are…

I know nothing about where Dr. H is today.

As I continue to mature and age along with my schizophrenia diagnosis, I think about how the passage of time…

A good friend of mine, a licensed social worker and peer advocate, said to me once last year: “Max, you…

In the end, it was the sheer size and strength of the stingies that overtook the sheer volume and numbers…

Book excerpt from university on watch remastered edition

Instead, physical pain and lots of it began emerged from cutting myself.

I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. I am a professional. I’ve…

As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed,…