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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

Mad in America

My doctor advised me to join the psychiatric rehabilitation programme of the hospital where he was practicing. And that made me more confident to step out further into the real world: I began to volunteer with an organisation focused on mental health advocacy. Soon after that, my mind became clearer.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. Then it became personal. We wanted to change that.