Monthly Archives: June 2012
The History and Effectiveness of Peer Support from 18th-Century France to Today
Yale's Program for Recovery and Community Health will publish in World Psychiatry's June issue a review the history of peer support, from its roots...
Nothing About Us Without Us!
As we prepared for our regular monthly Board meeting, a casually dressed middle-aged man entered the room. I didn’t recognize him. I was struck...
Heaven, Hell, and Psychosis
While the mental health system identifies psychosis as being about suffering, or “hellish” experiences, if you actually listen to individual stories, it is obvious...
Stress Sensitivity and Tolerance Associated With Psychosis
Researchers from Columbia and NYU found that stress sensitivity and impaired stress tolerance was greater in a cohort of 65 individuals deemed at high...
Premature Births Linked to Various Psychiatric Diagnoses
In one of the first, and the largest, studies of relationships between premature births and severe psychiatric disorders, researchers from Sweden and England examined...
Microfinance Loans for People With Mental Health Diagnoses
The Toronto Globe & Mail reports on a project to provide "microfinance" loans of $3,000 up to $25,000 to people diagnosed with mental illness...
The Mystery is Solved, and Now I’m Undoing the Harm (With Strength and a...
I’d like you to get to know me as you read this. I think I have an important personal story to tell. Frankly, I...
I Know With a Sane Mind When I’m Going Insane
This was my son’s answer when I was questioning him, trying desperately to find out what was going on in his mind. Why did...
