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…
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,…
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…
Adventure… Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗 14 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 At the very end of my semester in undergraduate school, I attended a reception on campus in which I participated in honoring faculty that was special with and dedicated to…
Adventure… University on Watch👀: Mental health, Concerns, and Hygiene 12 Aug 201810 Sep 2018 Sometimes, school crises erupt on college campus's unexpectedly. Other times, there is a slow build up of tension before the crescendo. The crescendo can be violence, hate speech, or any…
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… Center-staging, displays, and untoward behavior 5 Aug 20185 Aug 2018 I have witnessed the most obscene, ornate, loud, and grandest displays from people I work with both clients and colleagues. Center-staging isn't just about the magnitude and lengths gone through…
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…
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…
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… Mental Health Affairs Celebrates 💯 Articles Published📈 11 Jul 201811 Jul 2018 This is the 100th article posted on Mental Health Affairs. All of us at Mental Health Affairs have aimed to bring readers the most critical and rigorous analytical commentary on…
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…
Addressing Symptoms… Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead: The Early Warning System 18 Mar 2018 The worst thing in the world is to have had the opportunity to fix or resolve a problem and to sit on one's hands or let the chance pass us…