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		<title>I Quit Being a Web Designer with Mental Illness and how it changed my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides being a peer specialist, I do web design. I was a little bummed on Friday because there was a lame attempt from a competitor to link this blog to my business. They get CLASS A SCUM ratings from me as that&#8217;s dirty and it&#8217;s low, and without any class. Soooo am considering moving the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=172&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to become a Peer Specialist(Peer Support Specialist)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get ask very often how does someone become a Peer Support Specialist? Depending on your state, usually it requires a certification, and some classes. If that&#8217;s all you think that&#8217;s required, you&#8217;re wrong. Let&#8217;s look at some of the Peer Specialist misconceptions: I&#8217;m a clinician therefore my peers are below me, and can direct them toward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=164&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for an Old Friend of Mentalhope&#8230;Where is Asanah???</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks, I was rummaging through literally hundreds of files from the old Mentalhope project, and I came across a page from someone that become dear to me. Her name is Asanah. She was working on a website and was in recovery, but when she shared her story to be published on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=156&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery &#8211; You Can&#8217;t Hide from Who You Are&#8230;and Mentalhope.com is coming back&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was at the Nebraska State Mental Health Conference where I did what enjoy best&#8230;talk to my peers and drink coffee. Doesn&#8217;t sound productive, but it was because it reminds me of my roots, and I exchanged hugs with my brothers and sisters whom many I care for very much..I don&#8217;t do social settings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=146&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery and Support Systems Revisited &#8211; We&#8217;re Walking in the Land of Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the title. It sounds, well, a little Charlie Sheenish(I can&#8217;t even begin to wrap my head around what this guy does), but support systems are a vital part of most recoveries. A question that I&#8217;m ask a lot is where the heck do supporters come from? Do they just pop out of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=134&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The most inspirational words I ever heard: This is day one &#8211; God grant me the serenity&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://mentalhope.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-most-inspirational-words-i-ever-heard-this-is-day-one-god-grant-me-the-serenity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever look for facebook pages of old friends just to see what they are doing these days? Once in a while, I look up an old co-worker, school buddy, and sometimes make contact, and sometimes not. I recently visited a facebook page on someone who I had not heard from in a long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=123&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery for the Chronically Mentally Ill is Possible Sometimes and a Little More about Me</title>
		<link>http://mentalhope.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/recovery-for-the-chronically-mentally-ill-is-possible-sometimes-and-a-little-more-about-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning before your read: This post discusses some abuse and profanity, and if this is a trigger for you, consult your doctor and read only with a supporter. Some people look at me and say things like &#8220;they&#8217;re really sick&#8221; and not like you are. To be honest, they don&#8217;t know my history, and it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=95&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery Smuvery, why the heck do it? pfffft!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I ask myself that question. I mean isn&#8217;t it easier to make &#8220;the system&#8221; wait on you? You can do whatever you want to without responsibility because we are mentally ill, right? Why recover? Why do we risk all this security and expend all this energy for what? &#8230;and my great answer is!! It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=84&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Illness and Addicts &#8211; Have you climbed the 100 foot wall today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truly a good life. In the last two years, I had a chance to work with the homeless, get my day job going, do the peer specialist thing, and have some fun relationships. People sometimes tell me what a great recovery I have because of these things. Well, guess what? I don&#8217;t feel these have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=65&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health Peer Support Specialist Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#8217;m Rod. I&#8217;m a Peer Support Specialist. What is a Peer Support Specialist? They provide support from a peer point of view. What is a peer? A peer is someone that has mental illness or an addiction, or both. In my case I have schizoaffective disorder. That&#8217;s a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=45&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Recovery Keeps Going and if you have Stigma, Bye Bye!</title>
		<link>http://mentalhope.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/the-road-to-recovery-keeps-going-and-if-you-have-stigma-bye-bye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have developed my recovery plan using things like WRAP, wellness tools, and good support systems,.. and guess what? It worked, and has worked now for 5 years. Today is a new day for me. It&#8217;s been a long road, traveled by so many of my peers. The struggle has been great over the years, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=37&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Peer Support and Why Do We Need it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking back recently on my role as a peer support specialist and its definition. When I started in the role, I researched it and I wasn&#8217;t really able to find a clear definition on the web. This was frustrating. After nine months and additional education, I thought I would share my thoughts on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=35&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being a Social Butterfly in the Mental Health System</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was working before my &#8220;crash&#8221;, I made a decent salary I worked in a really tough business. I thought I had seen the worst of society. but realized that just wasn&#8217;t the case . Recently I had a conversation with a peer who was domineering, arrogant, and demeaning. While this is not only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=34&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Day of Mental Health: Support Systems in Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 18:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I had lost a widget. You know that thing that is valuable to you and you need to always know where it&#8217;s at to maintain happiness in life. My widget is gone! It was depressing and all sorts of thoughts rushed through my head. In recent years I have had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=33&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness. As I sit here watching Winston gleefully playing in my paperwork which he does so with his masterful ability to randomize my organization on a level that you can only appreciate, I am blogging on a few new things added/changed to the Mentalhope site. When the site first under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=32&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health and Our Actions: Responsibility or Accountability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness. “While I was (manic or psychotic), I did _______”. War stories. We hear these stories all the time. In the past few years that I have been in the mental health system, I have heard that blank filled with all most everything, good and bad. So if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=30&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness. Recently, we have a new addition to the Mentalhope family. His name is Winston(never to be used as a future password). I have been wanting a pet for years, but if I had only known what a joy that this fuzzy shedding animal brings, I would have done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=22&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are Friends For?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness.    &#8221;I am there for you&#8230;&#8230; when the rain starts to fall&#8230;&#8221;&#8212;-That&#8217;s the theme from friends. I am reminded that when my other friends is showing symptoms of mental illness alot of rain can come down. I mean it&#8217;s a thunderstorm. Why are my friends so important? Is it because they give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=15&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day, Love lost, Hearts Won, People, Sex, and that Crazy little thing called Mental Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness. Today is a celebration of love. Valentine&#8217;s day. The problem is this emotion called love is said to be by many professionals as close to mental illness as many people will ever get.  I for many reasons agree with this theory. Having suffered with mental illness for years and being in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=10&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Illness: how I took care of me and beat the beast today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentalhope.com Hope and Recovery from Mental Illness. Today is a special day! &#160; Nosce te ipsum. That&#8217;s Latin for know thyself. I am a bonafide geek. We know these things. As I have grown over the years, knowing me is paramount to my existence because to set realistic goals and learn to enjoy socializing(usually a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalhope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=468150&amp;post=7&amp;subd=mentalhope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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