Kitt O’Malley

Tag: Patients Rights

Updated My Resources Page

Apr 14, 2016

in Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Disability, Health, Human Rights, Parenting

Now that I’m one of WEGO Health’s 7 Bipolar Depression Patient Leaders You Need to Know, I decided that I would update my Resources page. Actually, the two have nothing to do with each other. Just promoting myself, thanking WEGO Health, and passing on the resources… By Category Mental Health Youth & Young Adult Mental…
More Hearing Advocacy Training

Oct 18, 2014

in Discrimination, Involuntary Hospitalization, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, MHA

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 the one in Laguna Beach; though, one was definitely nicer than the other. The patients, too, were quite different. Suffice it to…
I Loved It! ~ Patients Rights Advocacy

Oct 10, 2014

in Hearing Advocate, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, MHA

Loved shadowing an MHA Hearing Advocate earlier today. Look forward to learning more. Great opportunity for me to make use of my experience having been psychiatrically hospitalized for bipolar disorder (albeit voluntarily), while dusting off old knowledge and skills from my education and the careers of my early adulthood. After all, I have a BA…