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Social Connections are Vital for People with SMI

Social Connections are Vital for People with SMI

Socialization is crucial for the emotional well-being of people with serious mental illness (SMI). This is true for several reasons. When people maintain their connections with others, they are more likely to be tuned in to the world around them, given that social expectations require attention, commitment, and concentration. For people with SMI, social interaction can stabilize their mood, help…

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ADULTS SHOULD CRY MORE OFTEN

ADULTS SHOULD CRY MORE OFTEN

WAH!!! Sound familiar? That’s the sound of a baby crying. Imagine a fully grown, mature-looking adult doing the same and calling. It is hard to picture, right? Society ingrains in all of us that this sort of behavior isn’t age inappropriate but also an unhealthy and unproductive way of handling ourselves when upset. I’m not a parent, and I’ve never raised a child. I do know a baby cries when…

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University on Watch: Audio Chapter File

University on Watch the audiobook will be released soon. Listen to a chapter from the audiobook, pre-released, ahead of the audiobook launch!

School Psychology and the University CHAPTER AUDIO FILE AS I CROSSED INTO ROYAL County in what was my last successful trip out of the state, I was pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper insisted that he had received a report that a car like mine had been seen weaving in and out of traffic. He didn’t issue me a ticket, but he followed me all the way to my exit in downtown Liberty. After I…

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Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language

Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language

By 2022, most of us in the mental health community understand how important language is when talking or writing about mental health. However, with this greater understanding, we must address the question: “How can we further refine the language around mental health?” My belief as a licensed clinical social worker has always been that experts should listen to people with lived experience and pay…

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The Original Peer Support Recovery and Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum

The Original Peer Support Recovery and Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum

Book Foreword I will never forget the moment I met Mr. Craig Lewis. I was sitting outside my friend’s house, in my car, cruising the Facebook newsfeed in a frenzy. I was on the prowl, looking, searching for something. Like most of us on social media, we aren’t always looking for something specific.  Sometimes, we are gazing at our screens, waiting for that “Oh, wow!” moment to strike when we…

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What is the connection between mental illnesses and violence?

What is the connection between mental illnesses and violence?

Not enough articles examine mental illness and gun violence in the United States. What is the connection between mental illnesses and gun violence? In recent months, the United States has experienced a rise in gun violence. The current surge in violence is highly concerning and the reason highly contested. Regardless, the connection between gun violence and mental illness continues to be…

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BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE

BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE

  BOOK REVIEW: A PATIENTS NARRATIVE This past week, I had a bizarre reading experience. At the author’s request, I read A Patient’s Narrative by Chris Smith. I promised to give the author a fair and balanced review. I will be reviewing from the vantage point of the Prosumer. I am someone with lived experience in mental health and who has been committed to a psychiatric hospital at the state and…

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The CIA and the Belgium Government

Sneak peak at the University on Watch audio book.

My career at New London University suggests “this possibility for mutual understanding and agreement” to pervert even “‘the ordinary use of the English language’” (Reisch, 2005) is the transcendental infiltration of admission into the English program. —J. Peters, “Contesting Admission” https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-CIA-and-Belgium-Government.mp3 I know nothing…

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Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life

Excellent blog by Author Craig Lewis about rising above the rules when it comes to peoples well being.

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SCHIZOPHRENIA HAS NOT ROBBED ME OF LIFE'S JOYS

SCHIZOPHRENIA HAS NOT ROBBED ME OF LIFE’S JOYS

After attempting suicide in high school, my parents took me on a Caribbean cruise on a premier passenger line. After my ‘break’ in college, also known as First Episode Psychosis, my life didn’t stop either. I traveled with my mom on a tour of Italy and cruised around the Mediterranean to the very gates of the Middle East. I have traveled all over the world. I’ve been jet-setting across the…

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The Jewish Ghetto Police and the Survival Instinct.

The Jewish Ghetto Police and the Survival Instinct.

The Judenrat’s were local offices operated by high-ranking Jewish community members under the Nazi Office for Jewish Affairs. One of the first scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List begins with Oscar Schinder seeking out a well-off Jewish man at work in the local Judenrat working to de-escalate and answer the questions of frantic Jews losing their rights by the hour.  The Judenrat has an…

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The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health

The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health

The Mental Health Project: creation of the Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health The promotion of Mental Health is a multidisciplinary effort, which must involve several sciences and count on the collaboration of several professionals. Taking care of people is a task that requires commitment and responsibility. And when it comes to Mental Health, there’s a significant…

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Deputy Director of South American Affairs

Deputy Director of South American Affairs

Mental Health Affairs has always been an international mission at its core. Our vision is a final solution ⚡️⚡️. After all, the need for better mental health care has become an emergent worldwide crisis. As early as late summer, Mental Health Affairs began assimilating its new international rollout campaign after several activist groups and reformers reached out to this blog and requested we…

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A Tennis Ball, The Trash Compactor Room & A Bucket of Shit

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 then went to the bathroom for my morning constitution. Flush. Nothing happens. At that very moment things got very not typical.  I plunge. No movement. Flush.  Nothing happens. I should have gotten someone to help them at this point. My…

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GOOD SUPPORT IS VITAL FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

People battling extreme conditions need support in their lives

We all need support in our lives. Help and its power create a space of safety and even asylum for people to survive and thrive. Support is even more critical for people with mental health disorders. Without help, it is easy to lose sight of hope in your recovery.  Hope comes in all forms. Hope circulates through our subconscious at night and erupts in strange, mysterious ways during our waking…

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GRIEVING YOUR PAST 'SELF'

GRIEVING YOUR PAST ‘SELF’

When we think of grief, we often think of the exact definition according to google: “deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone’s death.” Another thing that comes to mind is probably the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. And while this is a significant aspect of grief and the meaning of the word. We can also use suffering to describe other situations…

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SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS

I thought I was married with a kid on the way, depending on my friend's womb's health and a piece of fruit on my windowsill

Delusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions carve out the imaginary and marry it with a person’s orientation in misleading ways. Symptoms like this complicate and distort our reality and sense of self. Fantasies can remain dormant and not escalate. Other illusions break off and form systems that typically require psychotherapy, psychotropic medication, and constant monitoring. Without medical…

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