In the last few weeks, I've been in a wide range of settings where it struck me that, while people were using the word "recovery" and clearly thought they understood the consumer-centered concept, they really, really did not understand at the deepest level. I don't blame them ... it takes time to change from a system that was completely... Read more
I thought this article about filing for SSDI was so important that I wanted to run a copy of it as my blog this week. It's from Allsup, a leading nationwide provider of financial and health care related services to people with disabilities; they help people receive their entitled Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare... Read more
I attended the recent U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) conference here in Chicago ... it was great! If you have never heard of USPRA, you might want to check out their website and see what they do: www.uspra.org
During one of the sessions I attended, the presenter (a provider) used an interesting word to describe some... Read more
Bill Emmit,
CEO of one of the largest and most
influential mental health lobbying groups in DC, recently sent an e-mail to the
CEOs of all the organizations who are part of the lobbying group, Campaign for Mental Health Reform. In his
message, he attached part of a story
from The Washington Post.
In the story,
writer Lori... Read more
Recently,
I talked about an article in Current
Psychiatry that I found frustrating. This week, I want to highlight one I
thought was interesting and has some value to us as consumers. In the June 2007
issue of Current Psychiatry, Dr. David
L. Wagner suggested a new way to identify when hypomania might be present.
Hypomania
is a... Read more
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