Continuing Education 🔄
I was asked to write down three things I cannot live without on a piece of scrap paper for a seminar on interpretation.
Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities office on campus, I was also speaking at their ceremony and reception for graduating students.
Collateral Support: Awarding Merit🎖and Citing Examples of Excellence in Friendship
Citing and awarding merit for people beleiving in my recovery.
Fully Alive💯
Fully alive means more than just framing the world in more positive terms.
The Criminalization🚨of Mental Illness
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 awareness, access to treatment, and laws surrounding forced treatment. Even more abundant is writing on people with severe […]
Mental Health Affairs Celebrates 💯 Articles Published📈
This is the 100th article posted on Mental Health Affairs. All of us at Mental Health Affairs have aimed to bring readers the most critical and rigorous analytical commentary on the status of medicine, psychiatry, social work, psychology, and allied fields intersecting with mental health care today in […]
On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work
In the summer of 2008, mid-July, I was ready for discharge from Binghamton State Psychiatric Center. Of course, readiness for discharge from a state hospital by no means signals the completion of the healing process, but it does set the stage for what would become a decade of […]
Food & Identity: Does A Mental health diagnosis change our relationship with food?
There is no question that food is apart of our identity. What we eat, how, when, where, and if we eat a particular food speaks to our culture, ethnicity, history, and relationship with food. People with a mental health diagnosis are no exception. & yet, in hospitals, specifically […]
Commitment to Care and Caregiving
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE AND FREEDOM IN CHOOSING OUR CARE HAS BECOME A RIGHT.
Chronic Illness & Recovery: Setting the Pace for Sustainable Healing
I highly recommend taking every chance to heal to expect good rejuvenating outcomes.
A Tennis Ball, The Trash Compactor Room & A Bucket of Shit
I don’t usually blog about my day, but today was unusual for a Sunday. It started very typically. I woke up and made some breakfast. I turned on the game and went to the bathroom for my morning constitution. Flush. Nothing happens. At that very moment, things got […]
Psychiatric Advanced Directives
I have put out flyers and solicited friends & family to fill out applications for my Health Care Proxy
Selfless Living
”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 a rich & privileged life. In my youth I was resistant and disagreeable, at time challenging my peers, […]
The Admission of Guilt
We all have our regrets. I have suggested time and again our darkest hours can be re-framed as learning moments. This is impossible unless we admit we are wrong or have contributed to the problem. People make all kinds of mistakes. Some small, some big, and sometimes catastrophic […]
How to Self-Manage Breakthrough Symptoms
Breakthrough symptoms can be very disturbing and demoralising
Relapsing: Surrendering Privileges
The best part of recovery is gaining access to new responsibilities, materials, information, and all the good things that come with stable living. Since relapse is an inevitable part of recovery, I plan to explore the loss of material, access, and resources attributed to relapsing and mental status […]
Recovery is a Privilege
Slowly, I learned not everyone shared in my philosophy of recovery.
Living in Two Worlds: Navigating the Intersections of Health and Healing
Before I lived in two worlds I lived in a world of persistent illusions, intrigue, paranoia & the seductive pull of my every symptom suggesting my health was compromised. With this said, my world was eclipsed, isolated, seemingly foreign, and unwelcoming to challenges I was facing connecting to the world in a meaningful way.
TOO BIG TO FAIL
Some things are too important to disappear or die off.
The Jüdische and the Jewish Instinct for Survival
The Judenrat has an unmistakable hand in the execution and carrying out of the Final Solution.
Motivation, Planning & Transformation: Reaching our Goals
Some call it growth and others say it’s maturation. Unquestionably any personal or professional advancement necessitates the evolution of the self. We all seem to at some point in our lives need and want to better ourselves. The challenge of self improvement undeniably shares a frontier with the […]
Learning to Identify and Self-Manage Mania
Ultimately, there will be times when you have to live with unresolved symptoms.
SELF MANAGING PARANOIA
Paranoia creeps into our mental outlook, almost undetectable
Legal Story: Voices of the Locomotively-Impaired left Unanswered in New York State
Public Transportation in New York State, in particular busing, is a county wide initiative. New York State Department of Transportation services a multitude of individuals, according each respective municipality delineating the State by county lines of demarcation. The United States Federal Government puts public busing policymaking in Albany’s […]
On Self-Care: Monitoring our ADLs
This article seeks to highlight the unquestionable importance of self-care in everyday life. Self-care is paramount to survival, and this article will review the essential skills necessary to continue and maintain basic to complex life functions. While each of us individually has different job functions and carries out […]
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