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…
Addressing Symptoms… The Prosumer Technocrat🔢🔀 6 Aug 20196 Aug 2019 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…
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…
Clinical… Pedagogy and Practice for Social Workers🎓 10 Mar 2019 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 a trauma suffered in my…
Education… Continuing Education 🔄 17 Oct 2018 I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation. At that time, I was floridly psychotic,…
Adventure… Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗 14 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…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms: Extended Metaphors, Ideas-of-Reference 28 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…
Cover Stories… The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣 12 Jul 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…
Addressing Symptoms… Food & Identity: Does A Mental health diagnosis change our relationship with food? 18 Mar 2018 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 to our culture, ethnicity, history,…
