Distressing Voices On YouTube
I was recently asked my opinion about the popularity of "What Schizophrenia Sounds Like" YouTube...
Putting the Human Back in the Human Services
On November 10, 2017, I gave a talk at the 10th Anniversary Celebration for the Center for...
The Roots of Lived Experience and Peer Support
The phrase "lived experience" has been widely adopted in the peer support movement. We talk about...
In Remembrance of the Magnitude of Human Warehousing
As mental institutions are torn down across the U.S. and replaced by luxury apartments, the...
Peer Specialists Are Not Clinicians
Peer Specialists are an emerging workforce in behavioral health. Many Peer Specialists work...
Finding Holiday Peace Through Forgiveness
Old hurts can surface during the holiday season. I offer this video reflection as a gift to...
What berry picking can teach us about running an abundant business
I have been meaning to write this post for at least 4 years. It's easy to get too busy and to...
Celebrating the Life of Eddie Taylor
We just received the sad news that Eddie Taylor, a peer specialist in Kansas City, KS, has...
Telepsychiatry and CommonGround
Recently we had the opportunity to meet with peer staff, clinicians and administrators of...
Are You Low Functioning?
The phrase low functioning is pejorative, despite the fact that it is widely used in...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. Our mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
