Creating an Authentic Voice and Impactful Message in Professional Writing  This workshop will teach others how to discuss and unpack their lived experience in a professional writing venue e.g., a newspaper, journal articles, etc. We will discuss approaches to “talking” about the lived experience with behavioral health issues. We will explore the importance of reflection and the use of self-disclosure in writing as an integral aspect of recovery and modeling good health for all peers.  Max Guttman, LCSW Mental Health Affairs, Founder  Christina Bruni, MS City Voices, Board Member.

Original video broadcast: https://youtu.be/ktH1ZRi19gc

In this special broadcast, Max E. Guttman, LCSW interviews the new Deputy Editor for South American Affairs. The interview covers a wide range of critical issues on the emerging South American frontier. Mr. Guttman talks about his relationship with Ana and how they came to work together on this project and the urgency of the tasks ahead. Ana lays out her grand plan to shape and restructure the Brazilan Mental Health system. Max and Ana point out the challenges ahead and also how to dismantle these fundamentally archaic systemic roadblocks to reforming a system that is not only fallen into disrepair, it is broken and beyond fixing. Ana tasks the listeners to join her cause and take up arms to re-arm the people of South America with information and education that brings the focus back to the people really suffering and without much-needed care and treatment. 

Ana's page: https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/mental-health-affairs-staff/deputy-editor-of-south-american-affairs-%f0%9f%8c%8e/

Article translated into three languages on the urgent crisis in Brazil: https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/until-when-full-translation-espanol-portugues/anaedmedeiros/theory/prosumer/

Submissions: https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/join-our-team/

What Is MHBC 2018?

There are tons of mental health bloggers out there – and undeniably we all play a crucial role in increasing the awareness that surrounds mental health issues. Educating the public on mental health and battling the stigma of mental illness is a massive mission. That’s why the world needs dedicated mental health bloggers.

However, to date, there is a scarcity of events specifically aimed at mental health bloggers. An event dedicated to mental health bloggers will not only be a much-needed networking opportunity for bloggers within this niche but will also further raise issues about our advocacy.

Refer to youtube link for a video from the event: https://youtu.be/FVIJaI357nM

My brief declarative remarks on 'What is Mental Health Affairs?' and why this question is essential to my research.

Here is a tandem written diatribe that explores the same question about the Mental Health Affairs blog: https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/why-mentalhealthaffairs-org/