I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
Tag: identity
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABUSED BY MEDIA
Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
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The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
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STIGMA OR POSSIBLY DISCRIMINATION?
Why can’t we all get along?
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The Queen and Her Baby
I went inside the house, asked Dr. H for her phone, and dialed 911
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Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
Objectification has been mobilized to create and propagate lies and other “isms”
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Understanding the Role of Support when Living with a Chronic and Persistent Mental Health Disorder
I was completely disordered and unable to care for myself ten years ago….
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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
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2010-2020 A Decade of “Returns” and New Directions💫
As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed, and awe-inspiring ten years of
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The House Negro: Remastered
I am suggesting the peer is the allegory of the American South’s mulatto in a world where animalism has supplanted reason for hate.
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Lost Chapter of UOW: Bombs over New London University
The next step in Contesting Admission seemed rather obvious to me. Pummel the English Department into submission. In the words of President George W. Bush,
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Decriminalizing Mental Illness👿
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
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The Revisionist: rise of the prosumer, axioms, and future directions in Mental Health Affairs
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
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Lost UOW chapter: $50 dollar bills for Recovery
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
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Pedagogy and Practice for Social Workers🎓
I am a very, very passionate learner. I believe in education, and anyone who reads my writing understands my love of learning. Partially due to
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Continuing Education 🔄
I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation.
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Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.
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Addressing Symptoms: Extended Metaphors, Ideas-of-Reference
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
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Food & Identity: Does A Mental health diagnosis change our relationship with food?
There is no question that food is apart of our identity. What we eat, how, when, where, and if we eat a particular food speaks
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Living in Two Worlds: Conflict and Stigma
I fully intend to explore the mental health system for the purpose of reform
