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…
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,…
Cover Stories… Interview with Author of the “V-papers” and founder of Mental Health Affairs, Max E. Guttman, LCSW 9 Oct 20189 Oct 2018 Interviewer: Please tell us, Max E., why do you insist on writing about mental health when it continues to be so widely talked about and covered by talented authors in…
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… 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,…
Education… The Day I lost my Home🗯 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 This was to be the first semester of my graduate education in English. I had just completed 19 winter session credits across five universities in New York State. After this…
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…
Facts… Collateral Support: Awarding Merit🎖and Citing Examples of Excellence in Friendship 9 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 I have not given enough credit to my friends whom have witnessed the most, and been exposed to the most traumatic times in my health and healing. I was never…
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…
Cover Stories… Common Egregiously Misused🚫 Terms in Mental Health⚠️ 20 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 Without question, all of us involved with the mental health system, treatment, peer advocacy, and those with a vested interest in the health and wellness of our friends use language…
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…
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…
Adventure… Dismantling state-level psychiatric centres: instituting full community access and integration 14 Jun 201811 Sep 2018 This paper presents a long-overdue proposal to the New York Office of Mental Health (NY-OMH) to close state psychiatric centers and discharge all remaining patients into the community. From long-term…
Addressing Symptoms… Chronic Illness & Recovery: Setting the Pace for Sustainable Healing 9 Mar 201811 Jul 2018 For people with a chronic illness and long standing mental health diagnosis finding the right pace for recovery & healing can be difficult and even misleading at times during the…
Addressing Symptoms… No Flowers for People with a Mental Health Disorder 1 Mar 201811 Jul 2018 When a person walks into a medical facility, hospital, or otherwise, they walk right past the gift shop. Usually, people walk right past it, just to ask someone else passing…
For Clinical Use Only… The Rise of the Health Czar 19 Feb 201820 Feb 2018 The Health Czar is the final solution to the mental health crisis in modernity The age old debate of governance extends into mental health and its administration, policy making, and…
Experience in Mental Health… Selfless Living 7 Feb 20187 Feb 2018 ''soliciting my grandmother for money for a project and then, when she told my mother, I denied the event, blaming her misunderstanding of my behavior on her dementia...' I've lived…