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The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

Mad in America

This entails us sitting with discomfort and uncertainty, instead of (for example) forcibly admitting people to hospital psychiatric units against their wishes. It can make the mental health system less of a perceived threat, and more of an entrusted, safe resource and tool.

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.