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Rainbow Heights Club: …she approaches me with a big smile on her face, holds out her hand, and says, 'Hi! I'm a lesbian...
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Rites of Passage: Ultimately, all I have to offer comes to this: my love and deep trust that she will find her way,...
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SpeakOUT Recovery Story from Addiction and Mental Illness: Often I have focused on my addiction…Or I would treat the mental illness but not the addiction....
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Stigma in the Cinema Presentation: …when mental illness comes to light, the media blows the violence myth way out of proportion.
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Stress Support: Stress is a concept we are all too familiar with in these increasingly uncertain and conflicted...
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The Zappalorti Society: The general mental health system is heterosexist and homophobic. And the gay communities have class...
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Unhappy side effect: A Weighty Illness: …I not comfortable in my own skin, in this new bigger size…Even in those rare moments, when a man...
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Ward Stories»
What's Your Label?: The diagnoses, for the most part, are value judgments made by mental health professionals about...
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Why Gay Supportive Psychotherapy?: When a gay person is himself homophobic, this leads to massive amounts of guilt and shame and a...
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2003 Ken Book Awards Breakfast: ...some of the books findings: 1) untreated schizophrenia has lower relapse rate than treated...
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Building a Healthy LGBT Community: LGBT people find the care and support they deserve-and can't find elsewhere-through organizations...
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City Voices Reader Demographics as of May 3, 2003: Our readers are from 64 countries around the world at this point, not just New York City..We are...
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Drop-in Center for Homeless Mentally Ill May Close: Bronwyn calls John Heuss House a 'healing community.' .... If this place is closed, it will...
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Growing Pains: The Culture of Sexual Minority People with Major Mental Illness: …imagine…Your peers are all gay, your doctor and therapist are gay, as are all the people in your...
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Identity House A Community For The LGBT Community: Identity House was born out of a collective consciousness, when gay community was more a future...
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Mental Health Housing Included in the Proposed New York State Executive Budget: The Governor included $65 million to be used to build housing for individuals leaving State...
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NYAPRS 5th Annual Legislative Day: On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services...
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Op-ed: The Challenge that Shouldn't Be: I recently saw on the evening news a report that those who apply for Social Security Disability...
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Program Helps War Veterans Integrate into Community: Flash back for a moment. When the clinicians control the program, they become caretakers or mothers...
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Proposed Legislation for Adult Home Residents: In April, 2003, MFY Legal Services proposed an amendment to the Social Services Law to add a new...
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