A brand-new initiative to develop a child and adolescent psych unit at Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington is already off on the wrong foot when it comes to input from psychiatric survivors and their families. Likewise for an initiative to develop an urgent care...
Publisher’s commentary by Karim Chapman Despite our broad common interests, divisions in the peer movement are getting in the way of our ability to be successful in the state. In the past two years, there have been efforts in the peer community to push to be on...
Commentary by Laura Shanks In April, I launched a virtual peer-run wellness collaborative group on Zoom through Vermont Psychiatric Survivors with my colleague, Carter Kinoy, with a mission to provide a safe community space for open discussion, synergetic support,...
Commentary by Grace Walter Performing a job that is based on “lived experience” at the young age of 23 has been difficult but rewarding to develop. For a period of time when I first began this job I was dealing with impostor syndrome, the feeling that you are not good...
Commentary by ANONYMOUS I’ve been thinking about the question from the reader poll in the fall Counterpoint: Does Vermont need a forensic psychiatric hospital? A separate place from a regular psychiatric hospital? I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. If you think...
Mental Anguish Versus Mental Illness Thanks for this, and for the article on Any Given Day… I agreed with you on almost every point. Thepremise of the film is that Mental Illness is Real… an a priori with which I take issue. The fact is thatsmoking weed or pcp or...
