How The Fear Of Self-Disclosure Can Impact Your Mental Health
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
I know nothing about where Dr. H is today.
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
hen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of the client. Becoming the object of their desire and madness, emotions and even feelings of safety become subsumed into the client’s new playground.
Either we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only use the DSM-5
That is why I took all the pills; to make me better.
People with mental health issues have experienced some form of “STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION.”
Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy
Labor Day or Labour Day, which is correct?
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.
The words used to talk about mental health matter.
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed to this calling….
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners
Fifty one years ago we walked the moon
How can we best further refine the language around mental health?
Actually, Cynthia, I’m on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico
That’s Kim, I thought. Shameless to the end. Revisonless.
So, I was just reading an article by Neesa Suncheuri called: How My Schizoaffective Disorder Helps Me Help Others In this article, the author likens the side effects (no pun intended) of not working and responding to the impact of paralyzing mental health symptoms as a strength. This […]
Planning for the future means knowing what went wrong and why,?
On episode 7 of Behind the Mind, Max Guttman joins the show to share his experiences with schizophrenia and details the adversity he overcame to live a happy, healthy and productive life. He also shines light on the common misconceptions about schizophrenia and the manner in which the disorder can be treated. This was one of the most inspirational stories I have ever heard, and I can’t thank Max enough for his bravery and willingness to help me reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.
Preface The Revisionist describes events I experienced beginning in 2008, the year that I graduated from college at New England University. However, the actual writing began shortly after the completion of Small Fingernails Even Less Love, which chronicles the impact of my mental health condition on events leading […]
The pictures posted are from a secretly videotaped meeting with my care manager and his director at a non-profit agency in Westchester NY. For three months, I have been calling and trying to reach my care manager. I left message after message for weeks for this person. It’s […]
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