Tag: mental health
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Seeds of Cope: A Mental Health Hootenanny
Seeds of Cope is a celebration foregrounding mental health and our many tools and techniques for coping. Join us May 17th.
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Tapping the Radical Roots of Peer Support
*Disclaimer: this essay is only intended to represent my own opinions and experiences, and is not reflective of any of my past/present employers – nor is it intended to speak as a monolith on behalf of peer support workers, autistic people, or any other mentioned communities/identities/political movements. I am a queer/trans/autistic young adult, currently working…
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #3: Mental Health and Epistemic Justice
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We dedicate this issue to epistemic justice, something sorely missing in the treatment of neurodivergent and disabled people’s mental health. Negative stereotypes stifle voices and useful tools. Lack of epistemic justice proliferates harm.
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Peer Respite
A peer-run respite center is a non-clinical, completely voluntary service operated by people with their own stories of mental health recovery, trauma, hospitalization, incarceration, substance use, homelessness or some combination of these. “When you’re in a psych hospital, they take everything — down to your shoelaces — for your protection. Then they slap a diagnosis…
