INFORMATION
Significant work in progress, last updated March 2017 (minor updates). These looked good to me at the time of posting (I pulled some from older reblogs on my Tumblr).
SECTIONS
- Having Mental Health Needs
- Newly Diagnosed With Mental Health Needs, Thinking On It, or Realized You Have MH Needs?
- Blogs, People, and Organizations
- Getting Through the World
- For Allies/Friends/Relatives of People with Mental Health Needs
- Ableism and Mistreatment not About Institutions
- Mental Health in Higher Ed
- In the Media and Awareness Campaigns
- Intersectionality
- Institutions
- Psychiatric Survivor Movement, Mad Pride, and Mad Studies
- Community Living and Care
Having Mental Health Needs
- Psych Ward Experiences
- Echoes of Being an Unperson: Institutions Don’t Help The Mentally Ill
- How we survive – or don’t
- Psychiatric Survivor: The Trauma of Involuntary Hospitalization
- On Accepting that I Will Never Recover, but Can Cope With My Mental Illnesses
- Messy, Beautiful Lives
- Caught in the Doorway: Mental Illness, Academia, and Me
- 16 Things you miss when you’re in the psych ward
- What’s At Stake When Race and Coercive Mental Health Treatment Collide?
- Borderline Personality Diary Entry #2
- You Can’t Think Your Way Out of A Problem You Thought Yourself Into
- Today is World Bipolar Day. Why do We Care so Much about Vincent Van Gogh?
- It Goes All Ways
- A Tale of Mental Illness – From the Inside
- Sitting On Something
- Reclaiming our Narrative — 5 Young Women Open up about Borderline Personality Disorder
- Dreaming New Meanings into Borderline Personality Disorder
- Memoirs Taught Me More About My Mental Illness than Doctors Did
- The Burdens of Mental Illness in the Service Industry
- You’re Not Sick Enough: Sick Days and Mental Illness
- Anxiety is an Invalid Excuse (internalized feelings)
- Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) Wrote Books and Had a Service Dog
- Cats are the Unsung Heroes of Mental Health
- Intro to Mad Pride
Newly Diagnosed With Mental Health Needs, Thinking On It, or Realized You Have MH Needs? (resources and any weird feelings you might have about it)
- Ableism 101: Internalized Ableism
- Overcoming Internalized Ableism
- It Goes All Ways
- Sitting On Something
- Anxiety is an Invalid Excuse (internalized feelings)
- Healthy Multiplicity
Blogs, People, and Organizations
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Psych Ward Reviews
- Esmé Weijun Wang
- Cracked Mirror in Shalott
- Dior Vargas
- Unseen Perfidy
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Elyn Saks
- Toronto Mad Pride
- Alison Rapp
- League of Awkward Unicorns
- Sam Dylan Finch
- Healthy Multiplicity
- Carrie Fisher
Getting Through the World
- Websites For When You Need Distractions
- Medication Management
- Executive Functioning Apps
- You feel like shit.
- Sporks to live by
- Emergency cleaning: unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible
- Activist burnout – discussion we need to be having
- Healthier Advocates – ways to do self-care during activism and advocacy
- Psych Ward Reviews
- Mental Health Issue Creates 6 Year Gap on Job Resume
- Trans Lifeline (suicide/mental health hotline)
- Vent app (basically an app for venting about things and finding other people who care)
- My Self-Care Kit at The Body is Not an Apology
- eMoods app for Android and iOS (mood tracker)
- The Quiet Place Project
- How to care for cuts
- How to care for burns
- Alternatives to self-harm
- 7 Ways to Curb Depression During the Holidays
- How to Get the Most Out of Therapy
- Setting Boundaries with Therapists
- Reaching Out for Support When You Have a Mental Illness
- Writing Your Mental Health Advance Directive (this says what mental health treatment you want and don’t want for the future)
- Self Care for People of Color after Emotional and Psychological Trauma
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Autism, Depression and Therapy (finding a therapist while autistic and depressed)
- Tips for Coping with Anxiety
- How I Got the NHS Mental Health System to Work for Me (UK-centric)
- Ending things with a therapist
- Depression, PTSD, and Other Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace: Your Legal Rights
- Taking pills when it’s difficult to do so
- Being in control in therapy
For Allies/Friends/Relatives of People with Mental Health Needs – needs more links
- “How can I support you?”
- Dear Bystander, The Unsolicited Advice Has to Stop
- Some Advice on Supporting Friends with Depression
- That Totally Happened to Me Too: The Urge to Relate
- How do I help my partner when I also have mental health needs?
Non-Institution Ableism and Mistreatment
- Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
- The Murphy Bill (HR 2646)
- Stop The Murphy Bill (Twitter account)
- Some psychiatric patients in the US have to fight even for the right to fresh air
- Echoes of Being an Unperson: Institutions Don’t Help The Mentally Ill
- How we survive – or don’t
- We’re Failing Trauma Survivors, but Maybe We Can Do Better
- New York Police Criticized for Using Restraining Bag in Arrest
- The Torturing of Mentally Ill Prisoners
- American Police and Prisons are Failing the Mentally Ill
- Mount St. Mary’s Ableist Plan to Push Out Vulnerable Students
- Polyamory and Borderline: Leave Your Assumptions at the Door
- Black and Low Income Patients are Deliberately Denied Access to Therapy
- The Stigma of Being Black and Mentally Ill
- What’s At Stake When Race and Coercive Mental Health Treatment Collide?
- Trans and Schizophrenic: When Diagnosis Impacts Transition
- ‘Can I Cry Now?’: Dallas DA, who grappled with mental illness, survives effort to remove her
- Mandated treatment is an infringement
- You’re Not Sick Enough: Sick Days and Mental Illness
- Europe’s Morality Crisis: Euthanizing the Mentally Ill
- On language and rhetoric
- Psychiatry History Resources (not all links work at this point, was unsure where to place this link)
Mental Health in Higher Ed (working on finding links for general education)
- When Students Become Patients, Privacy Suffers
- Mount St. Mary’s Ableist Plan to Push Out Vulnerable Students
- MSVU Student Not Allowed to Tell Others He’s Suicidal per School’s Wellness Agreement
- Caught in the Doorway: Mental Illness, Academia, and Me
- College with a Neuro-atypical Spin
- LSE Student with Mental Illness Evicted from University Halls of Residence
- Quinnipiac U. Agrees to Pay Student $32,000 in Discrimination Settlement
- In the Middle: On Believing Students
- How Colleges Flunk Mental Health
- On “Coming Out” as Bipolar in Academia
- Your Mental Health Rights on College Campuses
- Conference Challenges for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
In the Media and Awareness Campaigns
- People With Mental Illness Deserve to be Alive
- Nobody’s Death is a Blessing
- An Open Letter to Amanda Lauren from Someone “Beyond Help”
- Messy, Beautiful Lives
- Using People with Mental Illness as Clickbait Hurts Us
- The Shaming of People With Mental Health Needs
- Wrong does not mean crazy
- Reporters Continue to Misrepresent Mental Illness
- Two kinds of mental health stigma
- Talking about Suicide
- Discussion: The Challenges of Writing About Mental Illness
- Disability in Kidlit mental health tag
- Why We’re Wrong About Mass Shooters
- How podcast ‘The League of Awkward Unicorns’ is Changing the Dialogue on Mental Health
- The mental health zines filling the gap that therapy doesn’t
- Staying Silent During National Suicide Prevention Week
- How #MHM2016 Misses the Mark
Intersectionality
- People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project / Dior Vargas
- The Stigma of Being Black and Mentally Ill
- What’s At Stake When Race and Coercive Mental Health Treatment Collide?
- Trans and Schizophrenic: When Diagnosis Impacts Transition
- suicidal ideation 2.0, queer community leadership, and staying alive anyway: part one of a work in progress
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Esmé Weijun Wang
- Sam Dylan Finch
- Cracked Mirror in Shalott
- Announcing the First Ever Trans Mental Health Survey
- Queer Mental Health
- Self Care for People of Color After Emotional and Psychological Trauma
- Black and Low Income Patients are Deliberately Denied Access to Therapy
- Incidents at the Intersection of Black Mental Health
- Asian American Mental Health: Confusing Doing Well with Feeling Well
- Why Racial Justice Needs to Include Mental Health
- Mad and Queer Studies: Interconnections and Tensions
- Meet the Social Worker Who’s Improving Mental Health Care for Queer and Trans People of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- What Being Insititutionalized as a Trans Person Made me Realize
- The Burden of Mental Illness in the Service Industry
- Intersecting Selfhood: Trans Identity, Autism, and Mental Health Disability
- The Invisible Strings on Autism and Depression
- Where Are the Asian-American Mental Health Stories?
- People of Color and Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Autistics in Mental Health Crisis (part one, part two, part three)
- Presentation: Autistics, Autism Awareness Campaigns, and the Mental Health Care System; there is a transcript here
Institutions
- Asylum: Inside Central State Hospital, once the world’s largest mental institution
- Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People Are Not: The Troubling Rise of the “Haunted Asylum“
- Bright Lights and Dark Corners: What We Carry
- The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny with photographs by Lisa Rinzler
- Fields of Stones
- Echoes of Being an Unperson: Institutions Don’t Help The Mentally Ill
- Psych Ward Reviews
- Psych Ward Experiences
- 16 Things you miss when you’re in the psych ward
- Locked In the Psych Ward: An Expose of Universal Health Services Push for Profit over Quality and Safety
- After the Psych Ward, Eggs are Freedom
- US Justice Department finds Louisania Unnecessarily Relies on Nursing Facilities to Provide Services to People With Mental Illness
- We Need a Review Site for Psychiatric Hospitals – So I Built One
- How a 6 Year Old Got Locked on the Psych Ward (more on Universal Health Services)
- The worst atrocities happened to me in the places with the nicest names
- Willard Cemetery Memorial Project (note: autoplaying, low-volume music)
- The Lives They Left Behind website
- From CP Shoes on Tumblr: On Olmstead at 15 and Willard Psychiatric Center
- Some psychiatric patients in the US have to fight even for the right to fresh air
- Presentation Transcript on Georgia’s Central State Hospital
- Farms for Disabled People Aren’t a New Idea
Psychiatric Survivor Movement, Mad Pride, and Mad Studies
- Psychiatric Survivor: The Trauma of Involuntary Hospitalization
- “Shock Treatment – The Killing of Susan Kelly” (1961)
- Toronto Mad Pride
- Disability and Madness
- Mad Pride and Prejudices
- On Our Own by Judi Chamberlin
- Mad Pride: A Movement for Social Change
- A History of Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day during the 1990s
- Mad Pride!
- Mad Studies Network (including their Resources page)
- The Ex-Patient’s Movement: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
- We Need a Review Site for Psychiatric Hospitals – So I Built One
- The worst atrocities happened to me in the places with the nicest names
- Leonard Roy Frank, psych survivor
- Bush appointment of Sally Satel dangerous to psych survivors, 2002
- Mad Summit
- National Council on Disability report: People with psychiatric disabilities speak for themselves
- Intro to Mad Pride
- Intersectionalities Journal, “Special Issue: Mad Studies: Intersections with Disability Studies, Social Work, and ‘Mental Health'”
Community Living and Care
- Echoes of Being an Unperson: Institutions Don’t Help The Mentally Ill
- A Radical New Direction for Suicide Prevention and Care
- Late-night cafe can keep people with mental health problems out of A&E
- For Centuries, a Small Town Has Embraced Strangers with Mental Illness
- Supportive Housing Helps Vulnerable People Live and Thrive in the Community
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