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Why I Won't Change My Meds, Even When People Call Me Out, and Even When My Psychiatrist Recommends I do

I Weighed 170 pounds and Thought I Looked Good. Side Effects Made Me Gain Ninety Freaking Pounds!

The Harsh Reality of Losing Friends When You Live With a Serious Mental Illness

How I Went From Normal To Insane, and How I Had To Learn It Isn't All About Me

As Father's Day Approaches, Maybe it is Time to Rethink What You Think of Your Father

Crisis Situations or Nervous Breakdowns: What Can I do to Help My Loved One Navigate the Chaos?

The Things My Father Did Right, and the Few Things He May Have Done Wrong--But Both Out Of Love

The Summer I Turned Crazy by Leif Gregersen

Robin Williams Had Incredible Brilliance and Talent. He Continues To Inspire Me And Help Me To Understand My Illness In So Many Ways.

Podcast Interview That Makes Me Look Bad Enough To Put Down Mike Tyson and Rocky Balboa

Mental Illness, Psychosis, Depression, and Working. It Isn't As Impossible As It Seems

Mental Health Issue? Don't Let it Become a Physical Health Issue, You Are Too Important To Lose an Average of 12 Years of Your Life to Food Cravings

Mania: Why I Thought I Was Faster Than Usain Bolt and His Eight Olympic Gold Medals

What Has Changed; How I Have Changed. How Serious Mental Illness Affects Us All

Live With a Serious Mental Illness? The One Thing You Can't Afford is Complacency!

When Your Serious Mental Illness Tells You To Take a Break, Listen!

Moodswings and the Bite of Anxiety

Don't Believe the Lie That Your Mental Illness will Doom You to Poverty and Mediocrity

Disabled by a Serious Mental Illness and on Benefits? Here are Some Suggestions

Legal, Illegal, Over the Counter and Prescription Drugs I Have Experienced

Psychiatric Illness is Not All Bad, But it Can Seem That Way Sometimes

Adjusting and Recovering: How a Psychiatric Ward Can Mess You Up

Finding Comfort Despite a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Listen People, It's Not a Death Sentence!

Living With a Serious Mental Illness, and Navigating Psychosis. Through the Storm But Soon Back Home!

Six Ways Writing Can Benefit Your Mental Health, In or Out of a Psychiatric Hospital

New Paid Subscribers Will Receive Two "Mental Health" Memoirs (Digital Copies) One Now, One Next Month. Yearly Subscribers Will Receive Choice of a Signed Paperback Copy. More Special Content To Come!

Be Mindful of Mental Health Concerns Such as Depression or Psychosis in Your Adolescent

Psychiatrists I Have Known, and What I Feel Motivates Them

A Different View of Police Mental Health Crisis Response

April 7 "Ask the Doctor" Event

How Someone With a Severe Mental Illness Can Write a Memoir or Essay and Find Healing and Redemption

CureSZ, A Foundation Making a Difference For People With Schizophrenia and Their Families, Led by Bethany Yeiser, BS and Dr. Henry Nasrallah

Some of the Things That I Did Wrong Regarding My Mental Illness

Recovering From a Serious Mental Illness Requires a Multi-Faceted Approach

How Important Is Staying On Your Psychiatric Medications?

Someone You Care About Has a Mental Illness. A Full Life With Some Assistance is Totally Possible

Gather With Me My American Cousins Who Are Living With a Mental Health Disability

When Difficult People Don't Consider You To Be Ill Despite a Mental Health Diagnosis

Who Is The Most Important Person In Your Loved One's Recovery From Mental Illness? The Answer Might Surprise You

Living With Addiction and Schizoaffective Disorder

Dealing With Life on a Psychiatric Ward

The Psychotic Break: How To Improve Your Chances of Surviving Schizophrenia or Bipolar

Information Regarding Cost of Psychiatric Medication For Friends in the United States

Medications and Sleep: Why the Right Amount Is So Essential For Mental Health

Myself and Dr. Holly Symonds-Brown, Mental Health Practitioner and Professor of Nursing (39 Min. Audio Podcast)

A 29 min. Podcast For Caregivers of Those With Mental Illness

An Audio Podcast (24 Minutes): Nine Questions Most Often Asked By Caregivers About Mental Illness

Marshall Matt Dillon and Gunsmoke, My Favourite Positive Propaganda Re-Runs

A Reading of My Contribution to the Book, "Awakenings" by Bethany Yeiser, BS and Dr. Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Award Nominated Essay: "It's No Longer a Mental Hospital"

A Thirty-Two minute Video Podcast About Having a Loved One With Schizophrenia

For Those Who Love Off Beat Poetry

Homelessness, Mental Health and Addictions

Insomnia: One of the Worst Parts of Mental Illness

A Brief Look At My Recovery Journey

Finding Respite From Mental Illness Through a Million Little Things

Mental Health: You Only Get To Keep It By Giving It Away

Intersections of Madness and Poetry

A Little From Column A, a Little From Column B. It's All About the Little Things

Facing the Day, No Matter What It Holds

There is Good, Bad, and Even Ugly. But Despite This, Life is Beautiful

Well, My New Substack Account Seems to Be Growing. Time For a Welcome Blog!

It's the Small, Persistent Things That Really Wear Us Down. Learn to Direct Your Focus

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