MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY REVENGE
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune
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.
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of these precious stops in the system of care as levels of hope.
Fifty one years ago we walked the moon
Mcdaggot moved from receptionist job to secretarial positions but never seemed to make it past an assistant to someone more capable and better suited for the stronger and more lofty position.
In the end, it was the sheer size and strength of the stingies that overtook the sheer volume and numbers we had behind us.
Actually, Cynthia, I’m on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico
That’s Kim, I thought. Shameless to the end. Revisonless.
Preface The Revisionist describes events I experienced beginning in 2008, the year that I graduated from college at New England University. However, the actual writing began shortly after the completion of Small Fingernails Even Less Love, which chronicles the impact of my mental health condition on events leading […]
The pictures posted are from a secretly videotaped meeting with my care manager and his director at a non-profit agency in Westchester NY. For three months, I have been calling and trying to reach my care manager. I left message after message for weeks for this person. It’s […]
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.
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 last semester with my friends still students at Binghamton, i would enter into a JD law school program […]
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 spitting out of my mouth. Indeed, like most students, and English majors, I loved buzzwords, and the word-of-the […]
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 awareness, access to treatment, and laws surrounding forced treatment. Even more abundant is writing on people with severe […]
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