Tag search:consumer survivor

The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives

by Vanessa Hazzard
Paperback, 2015
Tags
narrative, narratives, stories, lived experience, personal account, bipoc, people of colour, mental health, black mental health, asian, hispanic — 5 more, hospitalization, trauma, mental illness, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

Don't Call Me Nuts : Coping with the Stigma of Mental Illness

by Patrick Corrigan
Paperback, 2001
Tags
stigma, mental illness, personal empowerment, disclosure, self-stigma, society, positive thinking, consumer survivor, patient experience, peer programs, consumer-run organizations — 3 more, community, stereotypes, education
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness [Copy #1 of 2]

by Elyn R. Saks
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
schizophrenia, psychosis, narrative, memoir, hospitalization, suicide, medication, recovery, career, treatment, talk therapy — 6 more, education, lived experience, personal account, personal experience, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
Schizophrenia (SCH), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

From Psychiatric Patient To Citizen: Overcoming Discrimination and Social Exclusion

by Liz Sayce
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
patient experience, consumer survivor, stigma, disability, inclusion, society, civil rights, social inclusion, integration, mental illness, mental health — 8 more, mental health care system, American, British, 90s, history, social exclusion, discrimination, informational
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness [Copy #2 of 2]

by Elyn R. Saks
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
schizophrenia, psychosis, narrative, memoir, hospitalization, suicide, medication, recovery, career, treatment, talk therapy — 6 more, education, lived experience, personal account, personal experience, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
Schizophrenia (SCH), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness

by Sally Clay
Paperback, 2005
Tags
peer support, peer programs, mental illness, consumer survivor, consumer experience, peer-run programs, 90s, public policy, health care, American, consumer-run organizations
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

The Last Taboo: A Survival Guide to Mental Health Care in Canada [Copy #2 of 2]

by Scott Simmie
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
mental illness, mood disorders, mental health care system, Canadian, involuntary treatment, hospitalization, diagnosis, family support, treatment, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia — 5 more, psychiatrist, legislation, navigating the system, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

Partners in Healing: Perspectives on the Experience of Psychiatry

by Alan B. Eppel
Paperback, 1999
Tags
patient experience, personal account, consumer survivor, consumer experience, psychiatrist, psychiatry, provider, clinicians, physician's perspective, stigma, family perspective — 6 more, family support, boundaries, treatment, Canadian, local author, McMaster University
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness [MHWRC COPY]

by Elyn R. Saks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
schizophrenia, psychosis, narrative, memoir, hospitalization, suicide, medication, recovery, career, treatment, talk therapy — 6 more, education, lived experience, personal account, personal experience, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
Schizophrenia (SCH), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

Dispatches From The Poverty Line

by Pat Capponi
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Canadian, unemployment, homelessness, child abuse, poverty, poor, Ontario, social policy, personal experience, personal account, memoir — 7 more, social safety net, consumer experience, consumer survivor, mental health advocacy, mental illness, Ontario politics, 90s
Collections
General Interest (GI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

The Last Taboo: A Survival Guide to Mental Health Care in Canada [Copy #1 of 2]

by Scott Simmie
Paperback, 2002
Tags
mental illness, mood disorders, mental health care system, Canadian, involuntary treatment, hospitalization, diagnosis, family support, treatment, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia — 5 more, psychiatrist, legislation, navigating the system, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collections
General Mental Illness (GMI), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Available

In the Jaws of the Black Dogs : A Memoir of Depression

by John Bentley Mays
Paperback, 1996
Tags
memoir, depression, Canadian, personal account, survivor, consumer survivor, survivor literature, narrative, recovery, life story
Collections
Depression (DEP), Mental Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Status
Checked out

Open Minds Quarterly: I should be over this by now (Vol 17, Issue 4) [Copy #2]

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2016 Winter
Tags
stories, poetry, inspiration, inspirational, poets, Canadian, personal account, narrative, fiction, creative writing, Robin Williams — 7 more, self-harm, celebrity, suicide, magazine, arts, consumer survivor, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.4)
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

Open Minds Quarterly: Women & Mental Illness (Vol 12 Issue 4)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2011 Winter
Tags
women, women's health, mental illness, suicide, post partum, postpartum depression, post-partum depression, feminism, depression, womanhood, Canadian — 7 more, inspirational, art, poetry, personal account, lived experience, consumer survivor, bipolar
Collections
Magazines (MAG), Women's Health (WOM)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (12.4)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Disturbing the comfortable & comforting the disturbed (Vol 18 Issue 4)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2017 Winter
Tags
separation anxiety, mental illness, addiction, Canadian, poetry, inspirational, short stories, essays, lived experience, personal account, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (18.4)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly (Vol 19 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2017 Spring
Tags
poetry, non-fiction, essays, mental illness, Canadian, short stories, creative writing, consumer survivor, lived experience, inspirational
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (19.1)
Status
Checked out

Open Minds Quarterly: Metaphors & Movement (Vol 19 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2017 Fall
Tags
fiction, creative writing, poetry, art, consumer survivor, mental illness, lived experience, Canadian, personal account
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (19.3)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: OCD and the art of avoidance (Vol 13 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2011 Spring
Tags
OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, avoidance, stigma, lived experience, consumer survivor, creative writing, personal account, Canadian, mental illness, art — 1 more, poetry
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (13.1)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: YOUR FIRST TIME (in the psych ward) (Vol 15 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2013 Spring
Tags
lived experience, consumer survivor, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive syndrome, manic-depression, manic depression, memoir, hospitalization, art — 5 more, inspirational, Canadian, poetry, creative writing, personal account
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (15.1)
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

Open Minds Quarterly: Rites of Passage (Vol 14 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2012 Spring
Tags
depression, mental illness, psychosis, schizophrenia, family, Canadian, art, poetry, creative writing, personal account, lived experience — 1 more, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (14.1)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly (Vol 12 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2010 Fall
Tags
suicide, voices, agoraphobia, poetry, Canadian, creative writing, lived experience, personal account, art, book review, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (12.3)
Status
Checked out

Open Minds Quarterly: Why are you still paddling your canoe? (Volume 13 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2011 Summer
Tags
recovery, mental health, mental illness, Canadian, art, creative writing, poetry, personal account, essays, lived experience, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (13.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Karen's Gift (Vol 14 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2012 Summer
Tags
family, poetry, family support, art, creative writing, personal account, lived experience, consumer survivor, Canadian
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (14.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: At what COST? (Vol 13 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2011 Fall
Tags
mental health, essays, remorse, poetry, art, creative writing, fiction, consumer survivor, lived experience, personal account, Canadian
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (13.3)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: story telling (Vol 21 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2019 Summer
Tags
disassociation, trauma, poetry, family, art, creative writing, essays, Canadian, consumer survivor, fiction, non-fiction — 2 more, personal account, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (21.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: No Wrong Answers (Volume 20 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2018 Fall
Tags
wellnesss, Tourette's Syndrome, grace, memories, poetry, art, short stories, Canadian, lived experience, personal account, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (20.3)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Memory & Remembering (Volume 20 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2018 Summer
Tags
poetry, memories, memory, reflection, art, creative writing, Canadian, mental health, mental illness, recovery, childhood — 2 more, consumer survivor, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (20.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Looking back & looking forward (Volume 20 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2018 Spring
Tags
poetry, therapy, short stories, essays, Canadian, personal account, lived experience, art, consumer survivor, mental illness, recovery — 1 more, mental health
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (20.1)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: keys, labels and more (Vol 13 Issue 4)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2012 Winter
Tags
anxiety, personal account, Canadian, mental illness, mental health, recovery, poetry, fiction, art, creative writing, lived experience — 1 more, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (13.4)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Why MEN CRY in the DARK (Vol 15 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2013 Fall
Tags
anxiety, men's mental health, depression, men's health, mental illness, poetry, essays, personal account, book review, lived experience, consumer survivor
Collections
Magazines (MAG), Men's Health (MEN)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (15.3)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: What is Your Phobia?

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2014 Winter
Tags
Al-Anon, alcoholism, phobia, hope, anxiety, fear, anti-stigma, photography, poetry, essays, personal account — 3 more, lived experience, consumer survivor, Canadian
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (15.4)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: The value of work (Vol 14 Issue 4)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2013 Winter
Tags
work, schizophrenia, animals, jobs, employment, workplace, bipolar, fiction, poetry, inspirational, Canadian — 3 more, creative writing, consumer survivor, mental health
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.1)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Where God Goes (Vol 16 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2014 Fall
Tags
spirituality, mental health, mental illness, prayer, faith, recovery, poetry, Canadian, fiction, personal account, lived experience — 1 more, consumer survivor
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (16.3)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: In the Eye of the Beholder (Vol 16 Issue 4)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2015 Winter
Tags
poetry, short stories, book review, Canadian, consumer survivor, lived experience, personal account, humour, comedy, addiction, letters
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (16.4)
Status
Available at the MHWRC, Level 2

Open Minds Quarterly: That's your impression but is it correct? (Vol 17 Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2015 Spring
Tags
depression, hypochondria, hallucinations, anxiety, poetry, Canadian, short stories, personal account, inspirational, fiction, consumer survivor — 2 more, mental illness, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.1)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Naming It; When shadows cross over (Vol 17 Issue 3)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2015 Fall
Tags
dissociation, sexual abuse, poetry, Canadian, creative writing, personal account, stories, short stories, mental health, consumer survivor, healing — 2 more, mental illness, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.3)
Status
Missing

Open Minds Quarterly: Power of our thoughts (Vol 17 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2015 Summer
Tags
depression, paranoia, pain, schizophrenia, poetry, Canadian, creative writing, writing, narrative, personal account, mental illness — 2 more, consumer survivor, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: Mapping Recovery in Northern Ontario (Vol 18 Issue 2)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2016 Summer
Tags
poetry, fiction, stories, creative writing, Canadian, small town, Ontario, depression, art, peer support, community — 3 more, mental illness, consumer survivor, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (18.2)
Status
Available

Open Minds Quarterly: The distances we travel (Volume 18, Issue 1)

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2016 Spring
Tags
depression, mental illness, personal account, OCD, poetry, fiction, Canadian, essays, creative writing, stories, consumer survivor — 1 more, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (18.1)
Status
Checked out

Open Minds Quarterly: I should be over this by now (Vol 17, Issue 4) [Copy #1]

by Open Minds Quarterly
Magazine, 2016 Winter
Tags
stories, poetry, inspiration, inspirational, poets, Canadian, personal account, narrative, fiction, creative writing, Robin Williams — 7 more, self-harm, celebrity, suicide, magazine, arts, consumer survivor, lived experience
Collection
Magazines (MAG)
Series
Open Minds Quarterly (17.4)
Status
Checked out

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness [FRC Copy #1 of 2]

by Elyn R. Saks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
schizophrenia, psychosis, narrative, memoir, hospitalization, suicide, medication, recovery, career, treatment, talk therapy — 6 more, education, lived experience, personal account, personal experience, consumer survivor, consumer experience
Collection
Schizophrenia (SCH)
Status
Available

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

by Daphne Merkin
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
memoir, life story, personal account, depression, suicidal thoughts, hospitalization, institutionalization, consumer survivor, major depression, postpartum, postpartum depression
Collections
Depression (DEP), Family Resource Centre
Status
Available
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