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Removing Cops From Behavioral Crisis Calls: 'We Need To Change The Model'

12/2/2020

 
In what will be among the largest and boldest urban police reform experiment in decades San Francisco is creating and preparing to deploy teams of professionals from the fire and health departments — not police — to respond to most calls for people in a psychiatric, behavioral or substance abuse crisis.

To read the full article click here.

How Culture Influences Voice Hearing: An Interview with Stanford Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann By Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD

12/2/2020

 
Tanya Luhrmann is a Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford. Her work explores how cultural contexts shape the experience of mental distress, particularly voice-hearing and the symptoms associated with psychosis. She also turns the lens on the practice of Western psychiatry itself, investigating how the field represents the mind and how these representations influence our collective understanding of reality.

To read the full article click here.

The Voices My Daughter Hears By Tricia Stafford

10/6/2020

 
I write about my daughter Annie’s voices with her permission. They are her private experience and I can never completely understand what it must be like to live with them, but she has entrusted me to try and “do some good” with them, maybe help shed light on and humanize this very stigmatizing topic or perhaps provide a modicum of succor to other families. She is a young woman now, twenty-two as of this writing, living her life and grappling with many of the same things as others her age; however, the voices have not budged. Objectively, I am fascinated by the way her mind works, why the voices came to be, how they behave, how she lives with them; subjectively, I am inspired by untold sympathy for my daughter and am in awe of her courage and strength.

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How Consumers Step Up to Design a Truly Recovery-based Mental Health System

6/28/2020

 
Recently there have been spirited discussions among consumers about what we want to propose as a basic change in the mental health system. Several of us have proposed that legislation be passed to ensure that every state and every community have reliable funding for consumer-run support and advocacy groups similar to the independent living centers for people with other disabilities. I liked the idea, but then I started to worry that those centers would be marginalized or co-opted as long as the mental health system remains narrowly medical. I have concluded, and have preliminary support from other leaders, that as consumers, we need to redesign the whole system and society from the bottom up, based on our lived experiences with mental health issues. I believe that only by having a vision of a truly recovery-transformed system and society, will we ever see lasting and genuine change.

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2020 Southwest FEP Conference: August 3, 2020—August 5, 2020

6/14/2020

 
The 2020 Southwest First Episode Psychosis (FEP) Conference, hosted by the South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, will provide invaluable professional development for mental health professionals serving individuals with early psychosis or clinical high risk for psychosis.
The  virtual three-day agenda will include nationally-recognized plenary speakers, insightful young adults and family members, and opportunities to learn from and network with similar providers from across the nation.

Click here to see more and 
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Talking about Covid-19 (aka the Coronavirus) by Western Mass RLC

3/15/2020

 
Article discussing important information about Covid-19 and things to keep aware of. A lot of useful info is included.

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Even When I’m Psychotic, I’m Still Me By Susanne Antonetta

3/14/2020

 
Last September, I believed my brain was on fire. Not in some metaphorical way. It was, as far as I was concerned, on fire.
I am bipolar and I was hallucinating. My hallucinations can be sensory, like the brain burn, but many are auditory — I know hallucinations are coming when I hear birds speak. I can tell you what the birds say, but what matters is how intensely personal it is, being shouted at by a fierce small crowd: persist persist persist from one, six degrees yes yes yes from another.

For full article click here.

The Hearing Voices Network Hits the Mainstream!

3/14/2020

 
The Hearing Voices movement began in Europe in the late 1980s when Marius Romme, a psychiatrist, realized that his training and therapeutic techniques were not helping one of his patients to manage the voices in her head. In listening to Patsy Hage, Romme began to wonder if maybe other voice-hearers might be in a better position to help her than he was. His hunch turned out to be correct, and the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) was co-founded by Romme and Hage in 1987.

For full article click here.

For just the video click here.

Practitioner Guides and Handouts: Illness Management and Recovery

12/14/2019

 
Created by US Department of Health and Human Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Mental Health Services
http://www.samhsa.gov/
Full packet here.

Medication-Free Treatment in Norway: A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage by Robert Whitaker

12/14/2019

 
The Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center, which is a private psychiatric hospital located about forty minutes north of Oslo, on the banks of stunning Lake Hurdal, was set up by its director, Ole Andreas Underland, to provide “medication-free” care for those who wanted such treatment or who wanted to taper from their psychiatric drugs. Norway’s health minister was urging public mental hospitals to offer such treatment, and this private hospital stepped forward before any public hospital had taken the plunge.

To read more click here.
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