Finding Higher Purpose in Affection
I think it’s important to ask: when I say “I need you,” what am I saying?
MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY REVENGE
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
T50 Project: The Mental Health Affairs Euthanasia Program
Sign me out right now!
Upward mobility: Steering recovery in the right direction
The vehicle can crash on its way to point B and not make it to its destination
Plan B: Relapse and reconstitution
Like most thoughts surrounding fear, paranoia, and anxious thinking, they all snowball
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Eleven years and no progress
I would later find out that cases like Minerva exist everywhere, and she is no more unique than her biography is to other people with a mental health disorder who share their story.
Reflections on ‘Peerness’, Social Work and Supported Housing
I love this work
Addressing Anger at its Source
It seems to me that many of these tragic events have originated from outbursts of uncontrolled or misunderstood rage
Professionalization of Trauma Stories and Lived Experience: A Panel Discussion
The book discussion will situate Guttman’s new and ongoing research on ‘lived experience’ with professional social work education and practice.
Lack of caring can create unthinkable tragedy
I find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my life.
Introducing: Urban Space and Race
Starting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of a series called “Urban Space and Race”
BOOK REVIEW: The Craig Lewis Guide to Surviving the Impossible
A guide to get from traumatized to surviving.
VOLUNTEERING FOR OUR MENTAL HEALTH
I am aware that not all volunteer jobs lead to paid employment
The relationship between “Inner work” and Symptom Management
Resolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
Blockages to reforming the ‘system’
The mental health movement was a civil rights movement, but what happened?
I stand in support and solidarity for LGBTQ folks and Survivors of all genders
From age 15 to nearly 18, I was a teenage boy with breasts.
Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead
Asking yourself: “What issues seem to pop up consistently?”
LADY MACBETH AND OCD
she is obsessively washing her hands while sleepwalking due to guilt.
FEBRUARY STILL REFLECTING ON DECEMBER
Success and failure are different for each of us, but we do strive for the former
BOOK REVIEW: Better Days by Craig Lewis (CPS)
Mr. Lewis dishes out recovery in fabulously palatable forward-thinking pieces of narration and encouragement
Undiagnosed (Part Two): Schizophrenia or Wicked Healing (East Coast Slang)
That is why I took all the pills; to make me better.
The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
DO YOU WANT TO BE A VOLUNTEER?
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Mental Health Affairs 
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