Neo-Institutionalization is covert, insidious, and must be stopped at all costs!
Tag: Peer
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.
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Speaking the Language of Recovery
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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From Madness to Healing and back again: An Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue
I have become the very social enigma that evokes fear amongst his own peers
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The Peer Standard⚖️
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
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NAMI doesn’t Speak for US
When I say, or hear, that NAMI doesn’t speak for us, it is because they speak for my mother, father, brother, but not me.
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The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
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Complications and Contestations of Practicing Radical Acceptance
This article explores symptoms that complicate interpersonal relationships and interfere with pro-social interactions
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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….
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Obituary: William Anthony, 77
William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston University has died. He was 77. Everyone does not know
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Mcdaggot’s Demise
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.
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A JULY DAY BEING A PEER SPECIALIST, BEING HUMAN
Peer Specialists should think of volunteer opportunities and find a way to give back.
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The Peer Support System Within Mental Health Is Broken and We Need to Fix It
I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. I am a professional. I’ve done supervisory, engagement services, and
