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,…
Addressing Symptoms… Learned Helplessness Must be Stopped🔴 30 Jan 201930 Jan 2019 One of my biggest struggles as a social worker in the human services is challenging learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a phenomena in which clients, patients, or any person connected…
Addressing Symptoms… Attention Seeking Behavior(s)🤳🏽 29 Oct 201829 Oct 2018 I have a profound fascination with attention seeking behavior(s). I am also profoundly clever at capturing the attention of my peers, family, and friends. Let's be completely honest, some of…
Top stories Our Health and Identity: Choosing Happiness☯️ 27 Oct 201827 Oct 2018 Who we are now, who we were back then, and who we will become one day is a journey marked with fear, etched with courage, driven by strength, and laden…
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,…
Addressing Symptoms… Mortality-rates in Health & Medicine: Justifying Unnecessary Mental Health Interventions 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average of 15-20 years younger than the general populations. Studies continue to evidence further data suggesting the…
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…
Adventure… The Strategist🎱 12 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 There is very little myself or anyone knows about the life or even whereabouts of Dr. H today. I can only speak for ten years ago. And very little information,…
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… 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… Respecting the Boundaries of Others 10 Jul 201811 Jul 2018 Everyone has a personal set of boundaries. These are the personal and professional invisible rules associated with how we decide to rule our interpersonal lives. There is no question that…
FEATURES Article 🔘 8 Jun 20188 Jun 2018 This following presentation is the long-overdue plan and proposal to the office of mental health to shutdown the state psychiatric centers and discharge all remaining patients to the community. From…
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… 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…