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Inviting In The Wolf: Living With
Bipolar Disorder. Text of a talk given as part of a "panel of experts" at
the 1997 NAMI conference in New Mexico. Tells my story, and includes the idea that there
may be differences in experience based on gender. Click here to read it. |
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Strategies for Self-Determination
was submitted in July, 1999, at the request of the Oregon Health Sciences Institute, in
preparation for their Leadership Summit on consumer control and self-determination. This
is the mental health submission for a cross-disabilities conference. Click here
to read it. |
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The experience of mental illness can be devastating to self
esteem. These are my thoughts on the cumulative effects of "mental illness" on
self-esteem, and some concrete suggestions for working this through. Recovering
Self-Esteem. Click here to read it. |
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Dialogue with my Inner Scientist
-- the text of a plenary address given in September 1998. Includes the overheads I drew
(in order to be scientific, of course). Click here to read it. |
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Looking Through the Self-Help Lens.
Over the years, persons who have mood swings, fear, voices and visions have been evolving
a system of self help. This is a look at that. Click here to read it. |
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A recent trend in mental health is to ask consumers for our
input. It is an enlightened idea, but not without inherent difficulties, like The Language Barrier in Mental Health. Click
here to read it. |
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People have a lot of questions about electro-convulsive
therapy. This is the text of a talk given in 1996 about what it is really like. The ECT Suite is not for the squeamish. Click
here to read it. |
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Including "consumers" in NAMI (or anywhere, really)
can not occur in a meaningful way without first answering The Hard
Questions. Published in the NAMI Advocate November 1998. Click
here to read it. |
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Who am I now? is the title of a
draft chapter on identity, submitted in June, 1999, for a book on topic of recovery. The
Recovery Paradigm Project is being coordinated through the University of Kansas School
of Social Welfare. Click here to read it. |
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Car manufacturers do it, cereal makers do it; it is good
business practice. Why should the mental health system be exempt? The
Need For Consumer Satisfaction Surveys, published in the newsletter of the NE MH
Statistical Improvement Project 1996. Click here to read it. |
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For persons with psychiatric disabilities, the Internet just
might be a very good thing. The Therapeutic Value of Cyberspace.
Click here to read it. |
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Talking points, for considering
the benefit of narrowing rehabilitation efforts to employment programs. Part of a panel
presentation on the topic in March, 1999. Click here to read it. |
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Anyone with a psychiatric label should have the tools to
label back. With tongue firmly in cheek, I offer the beginning of The
Patient's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for your perusal. Click
here to read it. |
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Over the years, the mental health system in the U.S. has
evolved a lot of resources. This is what I think we should be doing with them. Waves of Change and Changes of Mind. Click
here to read it. |
