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Challenge That Shouldn't Be By SCOTT SNEDECOR "I recently saw on the evening news a report that those who apply for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income may wait up to three years before receiving their benefits." Building a Healthy LGBT Community By ELEANOR NEALY, CSW "LGBT people find the care and support they deserve-and can't find elsewhere-through organizations such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center." Recovery Story from Addiction and Mental Illness By DEBORAH A. KEESLER "Often I have focused on my addiction…Or I would treat the mental illness but not the addiction. Recovery in either area for me has always remained elusive and unobtainable until I sought simultaneous treatment…Another significant growth process for me was connecting to my 'gayness.'" Mental Health Housing Included in the Proposed New York State Executive Budget By DANIEL STERN AND VUKA STRICEVIC "The Governor included $65 million to be used to build housing for individuals leaving State facilities and adult homes, as well as for homeless mentally ill people." Program Helps War Veterans Integrate into Community By JAMES F. FARAGUNA, MARTY COHEN, AND GUNSEL YILDIRIM "Flash back for a moment. When the clinicians control the program, they become caretakers or mothers to the consumer. With the new day hospital program's emphasis, the consumers are taught to self-advocate." Drop-in Center for Homeless Mentally Ill May Close By CARL BLUMENTHAL "Bronwyn calls John Heuss House a 'healing community.' .... If this place is closed, it will extinguish the little flame of hope." Rites of Passage By BONNIE CHERNIN "Ultimately, all I have to offer comes to this: my love and deep trust that she will find her way, whatever it may be." |
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Support By JUDY JACKSON "Stress is a concept we are all too familiar with in these increasingly uncertain and conflicted times. For those struggling with mental illness, both personal and professional stress can become a constant companion undermining coping abilities and creating physical, emotional and spiritual upheaval." Rainbow Heights Club By CHRISTIAN HUYGEN, M.A. "…she approaches me with a big smile on her face, holds out her hand, and says, 'Hi! I'm a lesbian and I have a major mental illness!'" What's Your Label? By MIRIAM EHRENBERG, Ph.D. "The diagnoses, for the most part, are value judgments made by mental health professionals about behaviors that they consider 'sick.'" Identity House A Community for the LGBT Community By CARL EDEN "Identity House was born out of a collective consciousness, when gay community was more a future dream and less a common reality. It is said, by some, that we were an experiment in Gestalt theory and practice, supported by The New York Institute For Gestalt Therapy." Why Gay Supportive Psychotherapy? By R.G. VAZQUEZ DEL VALLE, DSW "When a gay person is himself homophobic, this leads to massive amounts of guilt and shame and a tendency to be punitive towards himself and others." The Zappalorti Society By BERT COFFMAN "The general mental health system is heterosexist and homophobic. And the gay communities have class and disability biases against the LGBT consumer sub-population…the LGBT mentally ill…is a non-served community." City Voices Reader Demographics as of May 3, 2003 By WILLIAM JIANG, MLS "Our readers are from 64 countries around the world at this point, not just New York City..We are getting our message of empowerment out to people that need a positive message all around the world! " |
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the Attorney: Proposed Legislation for Adult Home Residents
By LYCETTE NELSON "In April, 2003, MFY Legal Services proposed an amendment to the Social Services Law to add a new right to those currently available to adult home residents. This new right, known as a "Private Right of Action for the Appointment of a Receiver," would allow residents of adult homes to go to a court and ask that a receiver be appointed to manage the home and oversee the correction of violations." The Culture of Sexual Minority People with Major Mental Illness By RONALD E. HELLMAN, M.D. "…imagine…Your peers are all gay, your doctor and therapist are gay, as are all the people in your therapy group…While you feel accepted in some ways, you also feel uneasy…You know your 'roots' are not here, and you want to connect with others like yourself." NYAPRS 5th Annual Legislative Day By VANESSA CARROLL "On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) held its 5th Annual Legislative Day in Albany." Ward Stories: Poetry by
A Weighty Illness By ANONYMOUS "…I not comfortable in my own skin, in this new bigger size…Even in those rare moments, when a man does notice, and this is very important, I don't like what they see." 2003 Ken Book Awards Breakfast By DANIEL FREY "…some of the books findings: 1) untreated schizophrenia has lower relapse rate than treated schizophrenia; 2) pharmaceutical drug trials are skewed when big money is at stake and; 3) the pharmaceutical companies and the psychiatric community are in collusion." Stigma in the Cinema Presentation By DANIEL FREY "…when mental illness comes to light, the media blows the violence myth way out of proportion."
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