Neo-Institutionalization is covert, insidious, and must be stopped at all costs!
Tag: Self Help
Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
is Mental Illness a disability?
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
NAMI doesn’t Speak for US
When I say, or hear, that NAMI doesn’t speak for us, it is because they speak for my mother, father, brother, but not me.
Total Recovery
Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.
Dating💘 with a diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.
Excerpt from Small Fingernails: “BLOODY VACATION IN NEW PALTZ”
That was when she revealed to me she was having her period that weekend.
Operation Psych-OUT
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed to this calling….
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, J. PETERS
Hello readers! I am the Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health Affairs, J. PETERS.
SECOND HALF SUMMER THROUGH TV
From me to everyone reading this article, enjoy August, the rest of this summer and all of the “Days of Our Lives”
HI EVERYONE!
HI EVERYONE! My name is Howard Diamond. Starting in November 2017, I have been a New York State Certified Peer Specialist, and I reside on Long Island. For over twenty-five years, my work life and experiences lie mostly in the Mental Health Field.
BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she has endured in a domineering Arabic “courtship”
Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of these precious stops in the system of care as levels of hope.
BOOK REVIEW: Life with Voices by Dmitriy Gutkovich
Life with Voices: A Guide for Harmony by Dmitriy Gutkovich is a complex, detail-oriented users’ manual for the Voice Hearing community and voice hearers.
The Queen and Her Baby
I went inside the house, asked Dr. H for her phone, and dialed 911
Interdisciplinary parity: Which is the right clinical pathway forward?
Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners
Understanding the Role of Support when Living with a Chronic and Persistent Mental Health Disorder
I was completely disordered and unable to care for myself ten years ago….
REMEMBER MOON VISIT BY NOT RETURNING SOON
Fifty one years ago we walked the moon
Obituary: William Anthony, 77
William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston University has died. He was 77. Everyone does not know
Mcdaggot’s Demise
Mcdaggot moved from receptionist job to secretarial positions but never seemed to make it past an assistant to someone more capable and better suited for the stronger and more lofty position.