The ‘New Norm’: this is as good as it gets
The only issue is what constitutes ‘help’? Professionals in mental health cant agree.
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….
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.
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
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
Whatever the stressor, life’s negative turns can be due to the impact of mental health symptoms or just tragic extraneous circumstances.
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 his name, but many of his ideas have helped people recover from Mental Wellness and Chemical/Drug Addiction and leading successful lives. Several years […]
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.
A JULY DAY BEING A PEER SPECIALIST, BEING HUMAN
Peer Specialists should think of volunteer opportunities and find a way to give back.
SUMMER IS HERE
Summer is here as we will leave June
JUNE IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER, … MAYBE NOT!
“June is bustin’ out all over”, is a song from the musical, “Carousel”. Yes, but is June really bustin’ out this year? There are a myriad of things that have occured. For me, the month of June itself has been bittersweet in which both good and bad occurrences […]
(Re)-Defining the Language of Mental Health EVEN Further
How can we best further refine the language around mental health?
EDITOR-in-Chief DAN FREY AND CITY VOICES
A good friend of mine, a licensed social worker and peer advocate, said to me once last year: “Max, you certainly love writing about your lived experience, have you ever considered contacting CITY VOICES?” I had no idea what City Voices was when she first suggested I contact their […]
The Great Stingie War
In the end, it was the sheer size and strength of the stingies that overtook the sheer volume and numbers we had behind us.
On Mad Advantage: A Letter to ‘The Normals’ and to the Rest of Us – by Diane R. Wiener (originally published in the Huffington Post)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-mad-advantage-a-letter_b_10071806
BOOK REVIEW: Climbing toward November
Book Review of Climbing Toward November by Ember Manos-Belle
Cutting. Emotional Numbness and Pain. (Content/Trigger warning🔴)
Instead, physical pain and lots of it began emerged from cutting myself.
City Voices Asks You to Get Involved
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Auschwitz and the the Liberation of Ruth
I worked alongside Ruth at a mental health clinic down in the bario, 3rd Avenue.
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