Self Help The Mobility of Recovery 2 Feb 2019 There is an undeniable mobility to recovery. Moving forward in your path to health and healing requires an inertia. From rate of recovery, the very speed and velocity required to…
Cover Stories… The Fear of Relapsing when you have a Mental Health disorder😱 30 Jan 2019 When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of relapsing. Whether you have a chronic long standing condition, or are suffering from a new diagnosis,…
Education… MHBC 2018 🎩 5 Nov 20187 Nov 2018 There is no question that family participation in a person’s mental health treatment is beneficial and critical to manage the long-standing problems that surface during a person’s recovery from a…
Top stories Our Health and Identity: Choosing Happiness☯️ 27 Oct 201827 Oct 2018 Who we are now, who we were back then, and who we will become one day is a journey marked with fear, etched with courage, driven by strength, and laden…
Education… Kendra Died for US💝 17 Oct 201830 Jan 2019 I've said it before and I will say it again. I am an overweight Jewish man from New York State with an active schizophrenia diagnosis. I have been committed to…
Education… Continuing Education 🔄 17 Oct 201817 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,…
Addressing Symptoms… Mortality-rates in Health & Medicine: Justifying Unnecessary Mental Health Interventions 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average of 15-20 years younger than the general populations. Studies continue to evidence further data suggesting the…
Experience in Mental Health… Open Letter to Search for Change (Mental Health Housing): SPOA service, and DCMH 16 Sep 201816 Sep 2018 Today I received a certified letter from my apartment building's management company stating there is noise emanating from my studio during the day and late night hours. Without question, my…
Education… The Day I lost my Home🗯 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 This was to be the first semester of my graduate education in English. I had just completed 19 winter session credits across five universities in New York State. After this…
Education… Rejected and/or “kicked-out” of Treatment: Untimely discharges and subpar linkages🔄 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 Finding the right treatment fit can be difficult. Not only are therapists important to try-on, so are facilities, programs, and treatment centers. This article evolves out of my experience in…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms: Extended Metaphors, Ideas-of-Reference 28 Jul 201828 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…
Adventure… Socializing in the Hospital🏥 28 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 After being admitted to the hospital, and settling down on the the unit as best as possible, changing into hospital garb, there is little to do than to sit, wait…
Addressing Symptoms… The Criminalization🚨of Mental Illness 15 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 There are a lot of articles out there all over the internet, newspapers, and mental health forums talking about the increasing violence in the community stemming from inadequate mental health…
Education… Addressing Symptoms: Stilted Language, Perseveration, Word Salad 13 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 Anyone who knows me personally or professionally is aware of my love of language. As a person diagnosed with schizophrenia and a lover of language, the road to recovery and…
Cover Stories… The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣 12 Jul 201814 Aug 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…
Cover Stories… The Myth of High Functioning📊 10 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 I hear it all the time working in Mental Health and also as a person carrying a diagnosis. It's a term that is both misused and overused, infantilizing, and laden…
Addressing Symptoms… Cigarettes and Tobacco Use in Mental Health Settings 7 Jun 20187 Jun 2018 The growing trend in most mental health centers is the banning of tobacco products and their use on campuses that deliver treatment and other supportive programs. When I first entered…
Addressing Symptoms… Repositioning symptomatology for mental health conditions post DSM-5 7 Jun 20187 Jun 2018 In the throes of madness, I have found some form of peace to hold on to like an anchor while discovering my innermost serenity. Only at the very end of…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms (Agitation, Frustration Tolerance) 12 May 201811 Jul 2018 In the throws of madness I have found some form of peace to hold on to as an anchor in discovering my innermost serenity. Only in the very end of…
Addressing Symptoms… Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Re-Imagining Treatment 12 May 201813 May 2018 Background:I have been a consumer of mental health services for a litany of diagnoses including but not limited to NPD. With this said, this presentation is intended to explore existing…