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CINDY SOSTCHEN, Poetry Editor "Alison Carb Sussman ... is the recipient of an honorable mention in the Amelia Magazine poetry contest."
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Teen's World of Irrational Unreality By ELIZABETH DRUCKER "If I could gather all the people who suffer from this excruciating disorder, I would tell them to hang in there and always remember that there is hope and help."
Bronx Peer Advocacy Center By ISACC BROWN "We hope to help educate both our peers and other people ... about how the Bronx Peer Advocacy Center can help our brothers and sisters in the mental health system"
And The Good News Is… By MARY SPEED "the smile on his face, as he helped get the bike out of my car certainly constitutes 'good news.'"
Alzheimer's Disease: The Nightmare By ROSA SANTANA "I will never know where this beautiful and intelligent woman disappeared to. By age 53 she was unable to walk and bedridden."
Double Trouble: Gays In Psychiatric Hospitals By ERIC JACKSON "There are many retrograde ideas about homosexuality within the population of psychiatric hospitals. There is also open homophobia and discrimination."
LesBiGay-Transgender Program at Heights-Hill Clinic By NATHANIEL HUTNER "A unique program for consumers who suffer from the dual stigma of homosexuality and mental illness is approaching middle age"
Hands-On Graduate Program By JANINE BUDAH, CSW "How are the institutions of higher learning adapting to ensure that the new crop of graduates are prepared to serve the current needs of the mentally ill?"
Ask the Therapist By RITA SEIDEN, C.S.W., Ph.D. "I have a terrible time getting up in the morning. I feel cold and grumpy. Is this part of mental illness? |
Baby Stories...
The Procreative Urge
A Pregnant Pause: Anti-Psychotic
Medication And Growing A Baby
News from NAMI... Bush's New Freedom Initiative For People With Disabilities Statement on the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act Of 2001 Call For Routine Screening of Children for Mental Illness
NMHA Statement on the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act Of 2001 By MICHAEL FAENZA, President and CEO, NMHA "We know that parity is affordable and effective. Now, we need to act on that knowledge."
MHANYS' Annual Legislative Conference By DANNY FREY "Mental health workers in the not-for-profit sector continue to be paid at or near the poverty level."
Taking Charge By JOAN L. NOBILING, MS Ed "participants identify and achieve personal goals, assess skills, make informed decisions and attain competencies"
Saint Dymphna: Patron Saint Of The Mentally Ill By WILLIAM JIANG, MLS "Under Dymphna's patronage, the inhabitants of Gheel have been known for the care they have given to those with mental illness."
Ask the Doctor By STEPHEN M. GOLDFINGER, M.D. "All of the older medications were developed by testing to see how effectively they block dopamine in test tubes or laboratory animals."
Ask the Attorney By JEANETTE ZELHOF "Remember, Social Security is a huge bureaucracy that processes enormous amounts of information. So be prepared to be your own advocate" |
Remembering Julius
Green
By TROY P. COHEN, GREGORY HICK, LAVERNE MILLER, & DANNY FREY "Julius believed that people who are challenged with mental health issues need support, need to be enlightened, and have the right to live healthy and productive lives."
5 New Recovery Stories... My Detailed Autobiography
Recovering Lost Abilities With Computer Technology By MINNIE BERMAN, M.S., CRC "Seemingly irreversible neurological damage can be repaired ... Memory retention, sustaining attention, problem solving, concentration, sequential planning and even reading skills all improve."
Self-Help Source By SHIFRA LAWNER, Director, Self-Help Source "a peer-run project of the Resource Center, Inc., ... sharing as wide a variety as possible of mental health-related self-help information"
Rae Unzicker Dies By DANNY FREY "Her articles and essays were widely published, and she was named an Outstanding Woman in America by Woman's Day magazine in 1987."
Psychiatric AIDS By BERT COFFMAN "Just as we pay special attention to Pediatric AIDS and Geriatric AIDS, we need to pay attention to 'Psychiatric AIDS.'"
Writing Ken Steele's Life By CLAIRE BERMAN "'What was it like to work with Ken Steele?' asked Danny Frey"
Who Moved my Clubhouse? By ANNETTE CAMPBELL "inside walls ... 'terraced' in four, five, and six-foot high ledges await plants to be selected and cared for by members of the horticulture unit."
Editor at Large: As I See It By MARVIN SPIELER "If Julius Green, so vitally alive and productive, could succumb to suicide, what about me? What about other peers? He seemed to have everything in the world going for him. Depression can be a killer. We all know"
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