Commentary by Bryan Plant II While my mental health has been a lifelong struggle, the road back began in 2018. A simple routine visit with my doctor was an unintended first step. He asked the simple question, “How are you doing?” Apparently, that was all I needed to...
All but two Counterpoint readers who responded to the winter issue’s poll expressed a belief that improving mental health workers’ pay would lead to better experiences for mental health consumers. The question aimed to discover psychiatric survivors’ attitudes toward...
Dear Editor, Recently, a Chittenden County Superior court judge handed down a decision siding with the state against the plaintiffs in a case brought by Vermont Legal Aid on behalf of those who are living unhoused and had been evicted from motels during the middle of...
To the Editor: The Counterpoint book review of Vermont for the Vermonters in its winter issue captured Mercedes de Guardiola’s effort at pulling back the curtains on the eugenics movement in Vermont. The review observed how the author, Mercedes de Guardiola, exposed...
The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases recognized “burn-out” in 2019 as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” A year later, as frontline workers scrambled to...
Commentary by Laura Shanks “Say what you want, it is a jail. Am I locked up? Yes. Are their guards? Yes. Can I leave? No.” “I think the whole system is a mess. No one has explained anything to me.” “I just feel very controlled. If I had been given the option to leave...
