Recovery Is A Journey: How To Use Your Lived Experience To Help You Heal
You are the expert on your lived experience
ANXIETY AND FRIENDS BE GONE
You can prevent these symptoms from getting worse
Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
MOBILIZING LIVED EXPERIENCE IN YOUR RECOVERY
Know the value and worth of your story
From CONSENTING TO INFECTION: HEP C AND THE PANDEMIC
Oh my God, I thought to myself.
Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?
Peers perform the same responsibilities, duties, and tasks as their higher-paid counterparts
Social Connections are Vital for People with SMI
Socializing is a skill set that’s multifaceted
BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE
The writing is lucid, clear, and focused.
The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health
The American School of Human Rights will promote the Mental Health Project in all regions of the world
I’m sixty-four, and I’m alive.
My birthday just passed.
SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS
Delusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions can carve out the imaginary and marry it in misleading ways with a person’s orientation. Symptoms like this complicate and distort our reality and sense of self. Fantasies can remain dormant and not escalate. Other illusions break off and form systems […]
FINDING THE COURAGE TO BREAK FREE
I don’t see a lot of people of color in the world of peer support
Where the Past Meets the Future
And tomorrow, we will be what we are today
The ‘System’
I have worked at various levels of the mental health system
Gratitude
Gratitude is closely associated with our mental health
Language and Mental Health: Living and Communicating our Lived Experience
There is tectonic shift in mental health language
Brazil, LGBTQ, and state-level discrimination
These folks need counselors and mental health resources to address their very ‘normal’ issues with compassion.
Another September Morn
Do you know where you were on that fateful day?
MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY REVENGE
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Professionalization of Trauma Stories and Lived Experience: A Panel Discussion
The book discussion will situate Guttman’s new and ongoing research on ‘lived experience’ with professional social work education and practice.
The relationship between “Inner work” and Symptom Management
Resolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
What exactly does it mean to be a Peer?
Either we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only use the DSM-5
Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
Fear of Embracing ‘Lived Experience’
In my profession particularly, the helping field, and for all of us that simply enjoy time spent in others’ companies, there is an unspoken fear that the person we are speaking to won’t listen or isn’t listening.
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