Creating Safe Harbors for People with Mental Illness
While studying at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, Clarence Jordan’s professor pulled him aside to voice a concern. “He was concerned about my loner behavior,” Jordan recalls. “He told me...
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When I was eighteen, like many young folks, I left my hometown in the coal fields of West Virginia to pursue a college degree. Energized by the prospect of being independent, meeting new people, and...
View ArticleAchieving Harmony: The Power of Peer Support in Whole Health Action Management
Solo artists make it look easy, but playing music isn’t a one-person show. Artists from Bob Dylan to George Michael to Britney Spears to Justin Bieber all depend on the efforts of professional...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ Youth is Bad
In October 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published the report Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth. The report marked the first...
View ArticleThe Power to Choose
As a young girl of 13 growing up in the early 1970s, I found myself in a place of deep despair that led to much of the suicidal thinking and behaviors that haunted me far into my 20s. People didn’t...
View ArticleFragile to Fierce: More than a Decade with Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
For many of us, Judy Collins — Sweet Judy Blue Eyes — sang the soundtrack of our youth. Her crisp, clear almost ethereal voice spoke to our hopes and fears in the eloquent “Both Sides Now.” But beyond...
View ArticleSupporting Our Students in Recovery
As I sit here in the Charlotte, North Carolina airport, waiting to board my last flight to Charleston, South Carolina, I cannot help but be reminded of what it was like to be an 18-year-old with a...
View ArticleWhy America Should Expand the Excellence in Mental Health Act: A Survivor’s Tale
Most babies need to be weaned off their mother’s breast milk. When I was six years old — no longer a baby, but still a child — I had to be weaned off morphine. It was a rude entry into the world. You...
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