Category: destabilization

  • Advocacy One Day, But Not The Next

    Advocacy One Day, But Not The Next

    On his blog today, Pete Earley posted a recap of a speech DJ Jaffe gave at the New York State NAMI conference earlier this year.  DJ Jaffe and his mentor, Dr. Fuller Torrey, are two of the most outspoken advocates for AOT legislation in the country. I have blogged before about my feelings on what…

  • One Week

    One Week

    What a week. This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week, as I’m sure you know, and today is World Mental Health Day.  This year’s theme is Living with Schizophrenia, something we know a lot about.   This week was also the week Kelli Stapleton was sentenced to ten to twenty-two years in prison for…

  • Losing My Religion

    Some days, it all feels just like this.

  • Four Days

    My New Year’s Resolution – well, let’s say goal, because I hate the connotation of what “resolution” has come to mean – is to blog at least once a week, preferably twice.  This first week back into the swing of work after the first two weeks in a row I’ve had off since I was…