Occupy Student Debt

Many psychotherapists are dealing with being un(der)employed and having massive student loan debt.  If you personally are not then I'm guessing you have friends who are.  In my experience people often deal with these fears privately which leads to less chances for solidarity.  I'd like to live in a world where people aren't alone with highly emotional and highly complex issues.  Here are stories of other people facing student loan debt pressures.  Feel free to submit your own.

OccupyStudentDebt.com

African American Psychiatric History

Vanessa Jackson discusses her research on African American psychiatric history and the importance of creating opportunities for marginalized communities to tell their own stories. She shares the lessons she learned from her conversations with mental health consumer/survivors/ex-patients and the potential for creating new healing strategies.

 She talks about three "magic questions" she asked psychiatric survivors:  1)  What happened to you?  2)  How has what happened still affecting you now?  3)  What do you need to heal?