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#235, Feb 19, 2020, Surviving Trauma-Induced Disorders and Working for Peers.

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#234, Dec 18, 2019, The Best Way to Help Yourself is to Help Others.

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#233, Nov 8, 2019, An Acclaimed Novelist Living with Schizophrenia.

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#232, Nov 4, 2019, Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder and Working as a NAMI Advocate.

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#231, Sep 25, 2019, The Challenge of Having and Recovering from Paranoid Schizophrenia in the U.S.

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#230, Sep 25, 2019, Conquer the Clutter: Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Overcome Hoarding.

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#229, Aug 8, 2019, A Social Worker's Approach to Interacting with Folks with Mental Illness.

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#228, Jul 25, 2019, Nobody Told Me. My Battle with Postpartum Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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#227, Jul 25, 2019, The Stressed Years of their Lives: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years.

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#226, Jul 23, 2019, A Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law: A Practical Handbook.

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#225, Jun 19, 2019, Experience with Schizophrenia, Recovery and Work with Peers

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#224, Jun 17, 2019, Experience with PPAD and Work with the Postpartum Resource Center of New York

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#223, Jun 14, 2019, Peer Support Organization, This is my Brave

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#222, Jun 13, 2019, Special Docket Court for Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

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#221, Jun 12, 2019, Suicide in Ohio and the Work of the OSPF

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#220, Apr 26, 2019, Chronic Clinical Depression and Beyond.

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#219, Apr 26, 2019, The Zero Suicide Initiative.

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#218, Jan 17, 2019, Late-Onset Schizoaffective Disorder in the Late 1990s.

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#217, Jan 4, 2019, Experience with PTSD and Working with Wounded Veterans.

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#216, Dec 31, 2018, Experience with Schizoaffective Disorder.

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#215, Oct 15, 2018, Living with War-inflicted PTSD, Anxiety, and ADD.

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#214, Oct 3, 2018, Being a Mother, Wife and NAMI Activist While Living with Bipolar I.

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#213, Oct 1, 2018, The Role of Special Docket Courts in Helping Rather than Jailing Certain Types of Offenders.

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#212, Sep 25, 2018, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump; 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.

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#211, Sep 17, 2018, Responding to a Critical Need: The Adam Amanda House in Athens.

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#210, Sep 14, 2018, Surviving Schizophrenia and Beyond.

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#209, Sep 14, 2018, How COPE, a Variant of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Can Be Used to Control Depression and Anxiety in Young People.

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#208, Sep 12, 2018, A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others), On the Psychology of Both Survivors and Offenders.

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#207, Aug 3, 2018, Living with and Loving a Much-beloved Mother with Schizophrenia.

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#206, Jul 9, 2018, “Radical Authenticity” in Coping with Major Depression, PTSD, and Dissociative Disorder.

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#205, May 10, 2018, Kansas City’s Approach to Helping Folks with Mental Illness.

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#204, Apr 9, 2018, Living with Clinical Depression.

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#203, Mar 16, 2018, Living with Clinical Depression.

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#202, Feb 9, 2018, Living with Bipolar 1 with Psychotic Features.

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#201, Dec 5, 2017, Experiences with Schizophrenia and Work in Behalf of Peers.

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#200, Oct 11, 2017, Bipolar Disorder: My Biggest Competitor; An Olympian’s Journey with Mental Illness.

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#199, Sep 22, 2017, Life with Bipolar I and Work with Peers.

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#198, Sep 19, 2017, The Professional Right/Duty of Psychiatrists to Speak out on the Mental Health of Public Figures - In this Case, Donald Trump.

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#197, Sep 11, 2017, Hopewell Health Center’s First Episode Psychosis Program.

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#196, Aug 17, 2017, What is a schizophrenic supposed to look like?

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#195, May 18, 2017, Recent Yale Conference about Possible Dangers Posed by President Trump’s Apparent Mental Disorders.

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#194, March 6, 2017, Experience with and Successful Management of Schizophrenia, Part 2.

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#193, March 3, 2017, Experience with and Successful Management of Schizophrenia.

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#192, February 27, 2017, The Trauma of War, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Recovery and the Importance of Service Dogs.

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#191, February 9, 2017, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and How It Effects the Behavior of Powerful Leaders.

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#190, January 19, 2017, Experiences with Panic Attacks and How One Person Keeps Them at Bay.

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#189, January 17, 2017, Surviving Bipolar Disorder and Working in Behalf of My Peers as a Comedian.

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#188, January 6, 2017, Experiences with and recovery from obsessive compulsive disorder.

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#187, January 5, 2017, PTSD in Veterans and Burnout Among Health Care Providers.

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#186, December 28, 2016, Special Docket Veterans’ Court Designed to Rehabilitate Veterans Who Have Run Afoul of the Law.

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#185, December 16, 2016, Being Part of a Family Plagued with Mental Illness and Suicide; Surviving Bipolar and Her own Attempted Suicide; and Going on to Sustain Recovery by Helping Peers.

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#184, October 3, 2016, A New Treatment for Refractory (Previously Untreatable) Depression.

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#183, Sep 21, 2016, How a Struggle with Clinical Depression and Anxiety Disorder Led to a Career in Animal-Assisted Therapy.

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#182, September 1, 2016, The differences between US and Australia in public mental health services, the interface between mental health and criminal justice, stigma, etc.

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#181, August 29, 2016, The Latest Findings on Research in Schizophrenia.

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#180, August 29, 2016, Schizoaffective Disorder, Recovery, and Work in Behalf of Peers

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#179, August 24, 2016, Managing Severe Bipolar Disorder, Staying Active, and Writing.

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#178, July 13, 2016, Living with borderline personality disorder and major depression, her recovery and her work helping peers.

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#177, June 23, 2016, Living with schizoaffective disorder, recovery, and helping others with mental illness

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#176, June 14, 2016, Paranoid Personality Disorder, recovery, and work helping peers.

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#175, June 13, 2016, Experiences in Vietnam, schizophrenia, PTSD, recovery and working with other veterans.

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#174, May 10, 2016, What it is like to have and to recover from Bipolar Disorder.

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#173, January 22, 2016, Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Recovery and Her work with peers.

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#172, January 22, 2016, Helping Veterans Overcome Internalized Stigma and Dealing with with Bipolar Disorder.

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#171, January 13, 2016, The Life and Torments of the Intellectually Impaired Kennedy Daughter

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#170, January 11, 2016, Living with Anorexia, a Personal Experience

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#169, January 05, 2016, Struggling with Bipolar Disorder, and working with people with mental illness

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#168, December 17, 2015, Struggling with Bipolar Disorder, Recovery and NAMI Work with Peers

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#167, December 17, 2015, Struggling with Anorexia, Recovery and Helping one's Peers

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#166, November 30, 2015, Help Rather Than Criminalize People With Mental Illness

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#165, October 27, 2015, Surviving Clinical Depression and Beyond

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#164, August 21, 2015, Bipolar disorder, recovery, and advocating for one's peers

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#163, August 14, 2015, Schizophrenia, Recovery, and Working for Others With Mental Illness

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#162, July 15, 2015, Sexual Abuse as a Child, PTSD and Depression, and Life as a Poet, Writer and Peer Advocate

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#161, June 29, 2015, Clinical Depression, Stigma, and Coming Out to Help Others

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#160, Apr 4, 2015, Persons served by the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities (ACBDD) and the mental illnesses from which they suffer

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#159, Mar 16, 2015, The Malaby Bill to Make Mental Health (CIT) Training Obligatory for Most Maine Police Departments

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#158, Mar 16, 2015, An Ombudsman's Job Helping Persons with Mental Illnesses and Their Loved Ones

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#157, Mar 16, 2015, Working with Students in Suicide Prevention

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#156, Mar 11, 2015, Disorders of Children and Adolescents and His Job Working with Them

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#155, Feb 17, 2015, Having A Brother With Schizoaffective Disorder, The State of Mental Health Care in This Country, And The Work of NAMI Six Counties

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#154, Feb 16, 2015, The Sad State of Mental Health Services in This country and the RC's Work to Rehabilitate Rather Than Jail the Mentally Ill

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#153, Feb 15, 2015, Struggling with and Recovering from both Dissociative Identity and Schizoaffective Disorders and Helping Peers Through Schizophrenics Anonymous

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#152, Feb 2, 2015, Struggles with Mental Illness

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#151, Jan 25, 2015, Experiencing Postpartum Depression and Helping Other Moms via The Mothers Place

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#150, Dec 1, 2014, Maternal Depression

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#149, Nov 6, 2014, A Congressman's Fight for Mental Health Reform

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#148, Oct 29, 2014, Trying to Help a Mentally Ill Son While Trying to Navigate a Flawed Mental Healthcare System.

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#147, Oct 22, 2014, The Role of Clubhouses in the Lives of Persons in Recovery from Mental Illness.

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#146, Oct 20, 2014, The Trauma of War, PTSD, Recovery and Work as Peer Support Specialist.

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#145, Oct 9, 2014, Surviving Early Onset Schizophrenia, Recovery and Beyond

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#144, Oct 1, 2014, PTSD and work at the Athens VA Clinic

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#143 Aug 25, 2014, On living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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#142, May 25, 2014, Dr. Ron Astor on Children of post-911 veterans

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#141, April 27, 2014, Dr. Candace True on Borderline Personality Disorder

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#140, March 30, 2014, Dr. Roberta Paine, on "Speaking to my Madness"

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#139 Feb 23, 2014, Borderline Personality Disorder

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#138 Jan 26, 2014, A son's schizophrenia

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#137 Jan 19, 2014, Borderline personality and its treatment

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#136 Dec 29, 2013, Having anorexia, bulemia, and bipolar