In books, movies and TV shows we've all heard the phrase - "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, the choice is yours." In any context this line offers a clear choice. The consequences of that choice are implicit, but nonetheless quite clear.
In this series, CHOICES II (Choices in Recovery), we are talking about... Read more
In books, movies and TV shows we've all heard the phrase - "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, the choice is yours." In any context this line offers a clear choice. The consequences of that choice are implicit, but nonetheless quite clear.
In this series, CHOICES II (Choices in Recovery), we are talking about... Read more
It took me about three years to accept what many others recognized from the outset, that I had a serious mental illness. It was my first psychiatrist, Dr. Sol Levy, who concluded very early on that I was suffering from schizophrenia. Unbeknownst to me, he began immediately to treat me for this illness using what is today... Read more
At the conclusion of my last SharePost, submitted on 4 January, 2009, I cited a quotation by Morag Coate and asked that visitors read the quote and give us their reaction to it in the form of a comment to the SharePost.
The quotation reads as follows -
" To one who is mad, the world is still real, but it has a new... Read more
For my last SharePost, submitted on 28 December, 2008, (www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia/c/100/53657/ii-13-consumer ), I submitted a poem entitled "WARD 7N," which I believe touches on self-stigmatization and forgiveness in consumers and asked that visitors read and tell us what this poem says to them in the form of a comment to the... Read more