Earth is a school of living, dying and being. It takes both life and death to distill the essentials for transformation into being.
Category Archives: Mental Health
The Homeless Mental Health
Just because a person is homeless, mentally ill, a former victim of abuse, et cetera does not mean that they are helpless, dumb nor worthwhile.
Psi Realms
In the PSI realms there are distractions, pitfalls and dead ends; essentially a labyrinth with only one way out… which is to go in. It is not for the faint of heart and one must prepare by having the skills and compass points of navigation.
De-escalation Tips, Skills and Strategies
This is a map from feeling anxious and overwhelmed to having a mindset, strategy and skills for calm and contained non-physical and non-violent resolutions when someone appears out of control and agitated.
Suicide as Violence Toward Oneself
The following are thoughts and ways to conceptualize suicide investigation, evaluation and intervention. These are thoughts for your consideration based from my clinical experience as a crisis MH evaluator and consultant. One of the aha moments was the idea to conceptualize suicide as violence toward the self.
Involuntary Treatment Act, Part 3: Odds and Ends
ITA Part 3 is a brief discussion of the other bits of this odd job. The difficulty is much of these other pieces are invisible to those unaware of the detainment and commitment process. In the video below are examples to give everyday relevance.
Involuntary Treatment Act: Part 2
The involuntary MH evaluation and detention process is fluid and there are a lot of pieces that float around for the puzzle to come together.
Involuntary Treatment Act: Part 1
The process of civil MH evaluation, detainment, commitment and treatment is one of those areas in life that most folks are afraid of, don’t want to know about and very few folks talk about. That is, until someone is in need, concerned about a family member or have issues about the homeless in their community.
Fear
If a person understands fear, it’s function, why it exists, how it works, when it happens, where and to whom; then a fear is a masterful teacher, a protector and is no longer an adversary.
The Gap of Change
But at some point, they had to surrender and let go. What they found was that the letting go gave them the space to discover something new.