The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
DO YOU WANT TO BE A VOLUNTEER?
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
Selfies Rule In the Psycho World
Here we have the emotionally disturbed person in all his narcissistic glory scheming for attention.
HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Your typical ‘crazy’ person or ‘nutbag’
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Neo-Institutionalization: The Overregulation of Community Mental Health
Neo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies in the 1970 and 1980s.
Combating STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION
The words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
The Early Warning System
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
THOSE LIKE US AND FIGHT FOR US
The only time mental health issues makes the news is when some tragic involves someone with mental illness.
Sleeping Amid the Ruins
I have insomnia, and only sometimes feel somnolent.
I’m a Social Worker: My Mental Health and Well-being Have Been Put to the Test by COVID-19
Working together, I am fully convinced this crisis will only embolden our mission and strengthen our skills further in the social work profession.
ANXIETY: SIMILAR FOR HAMLET AND FOR US
Keep in mind everyone, anxieties, and Mental Health Issues are not death sentences.
Mental Ilness: Who Am I?
Finding the self, soul’s truth is essential for spiritual life.
The Woman By the Train
I finished watching season 7 of Blacklist, a psychological crazybot about a criminal who has the FBI on a platter, and turned to the next episode of original Star Trek reruns.
Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
No Flowers for People with a Mental Health Disorder
When a person walks into a medical facility, hospital, or otherwise, they walk right past the gift shop.
In Response to the Mighty ‘I Have a Mental Illness…And I’m Fine with That ‘.
People that rate highly on the GAF are termed ‘high-functioning’
How to Cope with the loss of a Therapist or Case Manager
Patients want to know how they will survive after their workers
retire or move on to a new position somewhere else in the mental health system.
is Mental Illness a disability?
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
The Peer Standard⚖️
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
Use of Metaphors in the Therapy office 🕵️♂️
The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy
Dating💘 with a mental health diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.
Operation Psych-OUT
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed to this calling….
BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she has endured in a domineering Arabic “courtship”
STIGMA OR POSSIBLY DISCRIMINATION?
Why can’t we all get along?
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