Choices, Choices
Peering over my glasses as I ponder my choices Okay, so maybe this isn’t the proper forum to be weighing pros and cons of volunteer opportunities. So far I’ve shadowed two [...]
In Our Own Voice Interview
This week I'm feeling much better than I was on Friday and over the weekend. Spending so many days in bed or slouched on the couch did a number on my lower back [...]
Get Out and Vote
[voterinfotool] For those who do not receive NAMI's Advocacy Update, here is their email dated 10/27/14 verbatim (just copied and pasted) just in time for the US elections, the Affordable Care Act's HealthCare.gov [...]
Sick with a Bug
Thursday afternoon my son threw up when we went to visit the allergist. Since then the whole family (all three of us) have been sick. I've been too headachy and nauseated to do [...]
When prejudice isn’t real
We must be careful not to assume the worst, not to project our own fears and insecurities onto others. Read this thoughtful blog post from Laura Droege about her experience miscontruing another mother's [...]
More Hearing Advocacy Training
Friday I shadowed another Mental Health Association (MHA) of Orange County Hearing Advocate at two different hospital psych wards, one in Orange and the other in Santa Ana. Neither hospital was as nice as [...]
#BAD2014 Blog Action Day 2014 – #Inequality In Mental Health
Wendy of the blog Picnic with Ants (picnicwithants.com) describes her life as "a journey learning to live a happy and productive life, while living with Chronic Illnesses." Today for the Blog Action Day [...]
Inequalities and Mental Health: Blog Action Day
Video about #MentalIllness and #Inequality reposted from the blog of Bipolar, Unemployed, and Lost (bipolarunemployedlost.com) for #BlogActionDay.
Mental Health #Inequality #BlogAction14
Structural factors such as poverty, inequality, homelessness, and discrimination contribute to risk for mental disability and impact negatively on the course and outcome of such disabilities. A human rights approach to mental disability [...]
Tomorrow is #BlogActionDay #Inequality
Tomorrow is Blog Action Day. This year's theme is #Inequality. Go to BlogActionDay.org to learn more. What is Blog Action Day? Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests [...]