Brazil, LGBTQ, and state-level discrimination
These folks need counselors and mental health resources to address their very ‘normal’ issues with compassion.
SPECIAL REPORT: Re-thinking ‘Extended Care’ units in State Hospital Centers
Remaining patients in the long-term state psychiatric centres must be discharged and released from the eternal holding
Advocates that stigmatize
At the root of it, they are pathologizing advocates. I have met them.
How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
I am a mental health advocate, but still feel shame about my own struggles at times.
Sometimes, I felt guilty about keeping my mental health to myself.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Another September Morn
Do you know where you were on that fateful day?
Human Rights Coalition for Latin America Mental Hygiene & Social Justice
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
The Impact of Words on our Psyches
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
The Law does not mean anything to Brazil’s Psychiatric Institutions & Therapists
After Francisco’s passing family started researching and seeking the truth behind Francisco’s sudden death, they learned that he was not the only victim and was not an isolated case.
Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Calmigo Reviewed: AromaScam?
Initially, it seemed like an exciting purchase
Crisis Interventions: Cops. Peers. What is the right path forward?
The issue that hinges on the docket is Emergency Mental Health
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.
Exercising the Right to Speak Out
Clinicians must respect our rights
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 […]
Found Meditation
The mind cannot literally draw a blank until you’ve mastered the art.
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.
My journey in mental health housing and recommendations for change and reform
Those of us with mental illness know full well that there are many challenges required of us. Acquiring and maintaining stable housing is one of the biggest challenges of them all. With a complicated condition, the healing journey can be difficult and even more dangerous without stable housing. […]
My Parents’ Support Shaped My Recovery
My parents have been there during the darkest moments of my recovery and during the most triumphant.
Systems-based disparities for African American Medicaid Recipients in the NY OMH Article 31 Clinic
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’VE BEEN DISCHARGED?” “YOU’VE MISSED TWO SESSIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT ATTENDANCE, AND IN THIS CLINIC, IF YOU MISS TWO CONSECUTIVE SESSIONS, IT WILL RESULT IN YOUR DISCHARGE” “DISCHARGE? I’M GOING END UP IN THE HOSPITAL!” “YOU’RE ALWAYS WELCOME TO REAPPLY FOR TREATMENT WHEN YOU’RE READY […]
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