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…
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… The Changing of Signs🔮 11 Aug 201811 Aug 2018 I have said before that there is no universal way or signified to capturing or expressing in words the experience of psychosis. I might have been wrong about this claim.…
Adventure… The Mystique of Psychosis 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Psychosis is experienced by people carrying its active constellation of corresponding and altogether unique symptoms differently. At different times, along a spectrum, psychosis symptoms exist in a dark harmony, sometimes…
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…
Education… Addressing Symptoms: Stilted Language, Perseveration, Word Salad 13 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 Anyone who knows me personally or professionally is aware of my love of language. As a person diagnosed with schizophrenia and a lover of language, the road to recovery and…
Addressing Symptoms… A Story of First Episode Psychosis: From Symptom Activation to Hospitalization 12 May 201811 Jul 2018 Symptom Activation Crossing into Broome County New York my vehicle was immediately pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper insisted that a car was weaving in and out of…
Addressing Symptoms… Psychotic Break Survival Skill Kit: Moderate Impairment 30 Aug 201611 Jul 2018 Psychosis has a pattern and habit of evolving into something more elaborate and complex to unravel and make sense of for the person experiencing the symptom. As your psychosis worsens…