Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding…

There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.

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This article explores symptoms that complicate interpersonal relationships and interfere with pro-social interactions

I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of…

At the root of it, these case examples, while vivid, and telling of the extreme dysfunction in the system, are…

As I continue to mature and age along with my schizophrenia diagnosis, I think about how the passage of time…

William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston University has died. He was…

“We”re survivors”, Ruth said, reminding me yet again that this too shall pass. I worked alongside Ruth at a mental…

I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. I am a professional. I’ve…

So, I was just reading an article by Neesa Suncheuri called: How My Schizoaffective Disorder Helps Me Help Others In…

As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed,…

I am suggesting the peer is the allegory of the American South’s mulatto in a world where animalism has supplanted…

“You’re not easy to serve,” the director of care management said

So, I read an article today on the Mighty titled: “I’m not high functioning- and I’m okay with that”. So,…

“In the future, further work should deconstruct categories of medicine, psychiatry, and social work and encourage strength based approaches that…

When my illness first struck in 2003 and then again in 2008 I was extremely bitter and angry.