About These Blogs

Welcome to "Beyond Mental Illness." This site was created to give advice to people who have a psychiatric history and now are working to re-build their lives. It is definitely possible for people with psychiatric histories to have meaningful lives with important contributions, and these pages are designed to give suggestions on how to do so.

There is minimal discussion of medication here. Medications can be an important step for some people, but they are only one step. Medications can help mitigate some symptoms, but they cannot do everything a person needs. The author hopes to give suggestions on filling other needs people with mental illness have.

Right now the blog has two composite characters. One is Tony, a young man who has recently been released from the hospital and is low-functioning. The letters addressed to Tony are here on this page.

The second character is Kayla, who has been stable for a while but needs advice on taking next steps and moving forward. The link to Kayla's letters is: beyondmikayla.blogspot.com.

The author recommends people interested in mental health consider reading the following books: http://beyondmentalillness.blogspot.com/p/recommended-reading-list.html.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Questions

Dear Readers,

Thank you very much for joining me here. I hope you have found the blog helpful and informative.
I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about the blog. Please e-mail me at arioseo@gmail.com and answer the following questions:

1. What is your favorite post thus far? What is your least favorite post? (This can apply to both Tony and Kayla's letters.)

2. Which topics would you like to see addressed?

Thank you again,

Ariose
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