Tag: NAMI Peer-to-Peer
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Will I Start Blogging Again?
I haven’t really blogged since I published my book, “Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life.” Will I start writing again? For some time I did a bunch of podcast interviews, which you can find on my Media page. But the interviews started to bore me. I was telling the same story over and over…
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My Answers to Marya Hornbacher’s Questions
I love lazily copying and pasting content I’ve written elsewhere and repurposing it as a blog post. Once again, I post my answers to Marya Hornbacher‘s follow-up survey questions about whether I see mental illness as a physical disease: Do you consider mental illness a chronic physical disease? Please explain your response. It depends on the diagnosis.…
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NAMI Provider Education – Week Two
Yesterday I attended the second class of NAMI’s Provider Education. Here I summarize, paraphrase, and quote the handouts from the NAMI Provider Education Course Participant Manual 2013: THEORETICAL BASIS: Basic principles of secondary prevention/intervention in mental health care in community psychiatry as devised by Gerald Caplan, MD (1974) and Erich Lindemann, MD (1944). Community theory proposed protective interventions…