I’m a Certified Peer Specialist, so I feel I can say that it’s quite important for people with mental illnesses or psychological strife or whatever yadda yadda to get help from People Like Us, or PLUs (that’s my new favorite acronym). A study in the British Medical Journal seems to confirm this.
Click here for full text of article in the journal or if you’d rather get a summary, click here for an L.A. Times piece.
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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Congratulations! This is something I am very interested in. I just started school to become a dog trainer, with a focus in therapy and service dogs.
Blessings on you for using your knowledge and experience to help others.
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