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My Recovery Story
My Recovery Story
A Consumer's Story
At school the other children
laughed and played during recess while I watched from the shadows. When the
other children raised their hands to answer the teacher's questions, I held my
breath'trying to be invisible'terrified I might be called on to speak out loud.
I hated school. I couldn't seem to make sense out of the math and grammar. I
couldn't focus enough to hear or remember anything even for a...
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Dual Recovery, Self-Help Support (Part One)
Andrea Flowers, Tennessee Voices for Children; Craig Anne Heflinger, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Co-occurring mental and substance use disorders are typically not
recognized or treated as a distinct problem among adolescents in TennCare or in
publicly-funded treatment programs. One quarter (27%) of youth entering
Tennessee's publicly-funded treatment programs for substance use problems met
the criteria for a co-occurring substance abuse and serious emotional disorder...
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Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Tennessee Adolescents
the origins of the consumer/ family alcohol & drug and mental health advocacy movements
Sheryl McCormick, Advocacy Coordinator
The more things change, the more they stay the
same. Under the banner, "The Law Must Recognize a Leading Fact: Medical Not
Penal Treatment Reforms the Drunkard," the Keeley League, a national patient
mutual aid society that combined advocacy with support was founded in 1891 but
met only through 1892. 1 How sad that more than a...
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Advocating Positive Change...
Vickie Harden, CMSW
As part of an initiative requested by
the Tennessee Statewide Mental Health Planning Council and the Dual Diagnosis
Recovery Network, providers, consumers and other stakeholders across the State
of Tennessee came together for a series of meetings to address issues related to
co-occurring disorders. Through this initiative, the Task Force on Co-occurrence
was formed. Approximately 200 stakeholders met statewide through a series of
forums on...
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Dual Diagnosis Task Force
Serving the Needs of People with Dual Disorders
Joseph A. Rogers, President and CEO, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Jeanie Whitecraft, Program Director, The Friends Connection
The Friends Connection is a peer support and counseling program for people with mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders. On the theory that individuals with mental illnesses become involved with illicit drugs and alcohol out of a sense of...
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Self-Help and Consumer-Run Alternatives
An Integrated Model for the Treatment of People with Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders, by Kenneth Minkoff, M.D.
by By Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D., - Todd W. Estroff, M.D., - Susan D. Wallace, M.S., LCDS
Update from CSAT's Co-Occurring and Other Functional Disorders Cluster Group...
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My Story
By Jesse Fortner
My story is reflective of the
struggles many substance addicts and manic-depressive types endure. I
experimented with Budweiser at age 13, LSD at age 14, marijuana and ecstasy at
age 18, and crack cocaine at age 21. My mental illness birthed a label of
"bipolar" at age 22, right after I had been diagnosed as an insulin-dependent
diabetic. In younger years, I kept this alternate life "secret" from my family.
I maintained my own little fantasy world, and...
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Volume 2, Edition 1
Pam Raby, MSSW,' Thomas W. Doub, Ph.D., Michael Cartwright
Michele J. Eliason, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.'' Stephan Arndt, Ph.D. Professor, College of Medicine,...
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Volume 2, Edition 2
Dennis C. Daley, Ph.D
Andrea Flowers, Tennessee Voices for Children; Craig Anne Heflinger, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.
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Volume 2, Edition 3
Cardwell C. Nuckols, Ph.D.
Anger, aggression and addiction are intertwined in many ways, Anger has been
implicated in relapse as stated in the language of Alcoholics Anonymous. For
decades the self-help programs have warned those in recovery from addiction to
avoid becoming hungry, angry, lonely, and tired. These emotions are also a
confounding factor in situations where another psychiatric disorder coexists
with addictive disorder For example, anger and aggressive...
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