The ‘Sign,’ ‘Signified,’ and ‘Psychosis’
Ultimately, the symptoms are overwhelming and become so profound that life becomes too distant and unrecognizable to live without incident.
AUTUMN, WITH ALL THESE ACTIVITIES
Fall is here
SEEING AND HEARING ARE CRITICAL BUT NOT NECESSARY!
Seeing and hearing are only two senses
KICK UP YOUR HEELS, KICK OFF YOUR SHOES AND RELAX
Breathe in and out slowly and wait.
Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
How can we further refine the language around mental health?
Deputy Director of South American Affairs
Mental Health Affairs has always been an international mission at its core. Our vision is a final solution ⚡️⚡️. After all, the need for better mental health care has become an emergent worldwide crisis. As early as late summer, Mental Health Affairs began assimilating its new international rollout […]
TELLING MY STORY
Label me and put me in some “neat” category?
MY BATTLE CRY
You want the motion, you gotta move
Green Grass No More
The foundation you were forged from is forever gone
How do social workers define ‘HELP.’
A “bio-psycho-social-spiritual” lens
HOPE FOR EVERY SEASON
All people need HOPE
Solid Ground and the Rescue Line
Everyone knows you have problems
Language and Mental Health: Living and Communicating our Lived Experience
There is tectonic shift in mental health language
How to Define Recovery A Radical Idea
Here’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well a person is doing in recovery.
The Impact of Words on our Psyches
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
My life as an Artist with Psychosis
My time playing was plagued by paranoia and hallucinations in the meantime.
Effects Of “Broken Brain Syndrome”
I was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL
We need to discuss Independence
ALWAYS TURNING AND TURNING
Another month ended, and a new one turned and began anew. “Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers …one season following another”, both lines from “Sunrise, Sunset” from the musical, “Fiddler on the Roof.” Also, “Day by Day,” sung in the musical “Godspell,” shows how each day comes and goes […]
Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
From sickness to illness, we have now birthed the modern mental health disorder
From an illness of the soul to the mind, medicalization has crept into mental health in all ways.
THERAPIST JUDGEMENT CALLS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
he client, the same one I requested be transferred, attempted suicide the night before.
Addressing Anger at its Source
It seems to me that many of these tragic events have originated from outbursts of uncontrolled or misunderstood rage
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