With all the craziness going on in the world, elections have been on a lot of people's minds lately. The other day I started watching Chelsea Handler's new documentary special on Netflix called Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea. The focus was on white privilege, but one of the things it touched on is the issue … Continue reading Voter ID Laws as a Form of Voter Suppression
Employers aren't supposed to discriminate against people with mental illness. In fact, it's often against the law. Yet it happens, so what do we do about it when it does? In Canada, provincial human rights legislation requires equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. People with mental and physical disabilities … Continue reading Mental Illness and Employment Discrimination
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience. It's also a way to introduce you as a reader to some newer members of our community. This post is by Christopher G. … Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Christopher
Mental illness makes it very easy to focus our attention on what we can't do rather than what we can do. I also tend to disqualify (at least in relative terms) what I can do and place greater importance on what I can't. Many of my cans revolve around blogging and writing. Blogging and other … Continue reading What I can and can’t do
I've moaned about this before, but it feels like it's time for some more moaning. Sometimes I feel like my mental health nursing career has been flushed down the toilet. Despite having 15 years of experience, a master's degree, and a ton of continuing education, I feel like my career is done, for a combination … Continue reading Flush… is that my career going down the toilet?
To set this up, I'll give you a bit of background. A) One of my jobs (although technically it's contract work rather than a job) is as an injection nurse. I administer certain kinds of recurring injection medications to patients, and I teach patients how to self-inject various biologic medications. B) I have a tremor … Continue reading A work conundrum
According to the Homeless Hub, 30-35% experiencing homelessness have a mental illness. Among women, that figure jumps to 70%. How does society allow this to happen to some of our most vulnerable people? Housing is a basic fundamental need that all people should be able to access. Why are people with mental illness disproportionately represented … Continue reading We all deserve a roof over our heads
Part of the Pursue Your Writing Dreams series This series will cover some of the things you need to know/consider to take your writing to the next level. So, you want to write, but mental illness is throwing up roadblocks. What to do? Well, this post I did on the Best Life Collabrative is going … Continue reading Overcome mental illness stumbling blocks to writing
Living alone, I have to do all my own grocery shopping. It's been that way for years, so no big deal, right? Well, what used to be a simple task has become a bit more of a production with mental illness tagging along. The grocery store is a 10 minutes walk from where I live. … Continue reading Mental illness goes grocery shopping
"So, what do you do for work?" That's a pretty standard, run of the mill question if you're meeting someone for the first time, and one of the reasons why I dislike being around people. In our society, adults are expected to work, and if you don't, that is considered unusual unless you fall into … Continue reading Managing working (or not) with disability
If you ask the average person about things that come to mind when they think of mental illness, finances is probably not something they're going to come up with. But for those of us living with mental illness, it's something we all too often don't have the option of ignoring. I grew up in a … Continue reading Financial sandbagging for the mental illness storm