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WMHRC Building Our Recovery Community

Handling Your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School

An interactive and informative web site for people with a psychiatric condition that addresses issues and  reasonable accommodations related to work and school. This is the only site designed exclusively to provide information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other employment and education issues for people with psychiatric disabilities. Get the information that you need about the ADA, reasonable accommodations, and disclosure. Become an active member in the jobschool YahooGroup, and share experiences, wisdom, and concerns regarding handling a psychiatric disabilities at work and school with others via email. http://www.bu.edu/cpr/jobschool/index.html

'Consumer's Rights are Human Rights' 

Peer-to-Peer Resource Center

Promoting peer support and recovery for people living with mental illness.  Interested in a training program for peer specialist, coaches or mentor?

At the Peer-to-Peer Resource Center, we believe that the support of peers – other mental health consumers – is essential to wellness and recovery. We are working to bring peer support the recognition it deserves, and to make peers an integral part of every consumer’s recovery team. Our goal is to advance training and certification of peer specialists who work with other mental health consumers to promote outcomes of self-directed recovery, independence, and community integration.

What's a Peer Specialist?      A Peer Specialist is a person with a mental illness who has been trained to help her/his peers - other people with mental illnesses - to identify and achieve specific life goals.  The Peer Specialist cultivates the ability of those they assist to make informed, independent choices and set goals, and to gain information and support from the community to achieve those goals.

http://www.peersupport.org/

Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.

Recovery is about facing your own feelings-healthy and unhealthy feelings. 

If you are feeling low, you should visit this web site.  From their website:  "When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral. It is simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources.  You can survive suicidal feelings if you do either of two things: (1) find a way to reduce your pain, or (2) find a way to increase your coping resources. Both are possible.... But there are people out there who can be with you in this horrible time, and will not judge you, or argue with you, or send you to a hospital, or try to talk you out of how badly you feel. They will simply care for you. Find one of them. Now. Use your 24 hours, or your week, and tell someone what’s going on with you. It is okay to ask for help. Try:
  • Send an anonymous e-mail to The Samaritans
  • Call 1-800-273-TALK in the U.S.
  • Teenagers, call Covenant House NineLine, 1-800-999-9999
  • Look in the front of your phone book for a crisis line
  • Call a psychotherapist
  • Carefully choose a friend or a minister or rabbi, someone who is likely to listen.

Recovery is about facing pain in healthy ways. 

This website was found on Morgan Brown's Blogg on 'Alternative Mental Health.' http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/spagebw.htm