Mental Health Awareness
Concerning Anonymity
As someone who openly writes about his mental health and mental illnesses and who is totally ‘out there’ and ‘public’ concerning these and how they impact my life. And as someone who has – as a result of this openness and some people’s extremely poor and uneducated attitude towards mental illness – experienced (and yes […]
Walking the Walk And Not Just Talking The Talk!
Having chosen the title that I have, I think I am duty bound to point out that the purpose of this post is in no way meant to criticize but instead to encourage and motivate. It is also a reflection on my opinion of the wonderful commitment that one of our members – Sam from over […]
Member’s Profile – My Depersonalization Experience.
Well, I haven’t posted a member’s profile post for a while now and so I am absolutely delighted to be able to post this one in which we profile our newest member – Christopher – from over at My Depersonalization Experience. Due to my having again been unwell lately and only now starting to recover, I […]
Submission From A Member – Reader Discretion Required.
Dear Reader/Member. I am displaying the Trigger Warning sign on this post as this post deals with matters of both suicide and self-harming. Members and readers are therefore encouraged to use discretion and consider very carefully whether they wish to continue reading. Hi all, I received an email this morning to which the following article/post […]
Have You Voted Yet?
Back at the end of January I posted a piece concerning how long it takes to get an acceptable diagnosis in respect of Mental Health. In that piece I asked members to vote indicating how long it took them to get the diagnosis that they needed. About 10 days ago I published a graph indicating […]
Introducing Healthsofa.com
Recently I received an email via my personal blog Voices of Glass. The email in question was from the administrator over at Health Sofa and asked for my input concerning the site. Health sofa aims “to give users a platform to share and learn from experiences others made in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format.1” According to […]
Getting Help Survey
A question arose the other day about how long it takes someone – from the point of their trying to get help with their mental health – to get an actual acceptable diagnosis. So in response to that question I thought I would do a poll and invite members to participate if they would like […]
Blog For Mental Health 2013 – An Invitation!
Because of the importance of this initiative in my opinion, I am posting this post on all four collective community based blogs that I am involved in: Resonate Freedom, Christian Concern For Mental Health, Teens For Global Mental Health Awareness, and The Mental Health Writers Guild. For those of you who follow more than one […]
WEGO HEALTH ACTIVIST AWARD Nomination – Best Ensemble Cast
Just to let you all know that the Guild has been nominated for a “Best Ensemble Cast” award in 2012’s WEGO Health Activist Awards And I have to tell you that as far as I am concerned there could be no better or more appropriate name for an award that you all should receive. In […]
The Dare To See It Differently Campaign!
For any one of us who face what is commonly termed mental illness or poor mental health there is the added challenge of also having to face a whole range of potential injustices and stigmas! And sadly the same goes for some physical health conditions. But who says it has to be that way and […]
Mental Health Writers' Guild 