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...
Journalist Robert Whitaker and nonprofit director Sera Davidow traveled to Burlington in July for Vermont Mad Pride, where they served as the keynote speakers. Whitaker, the bestselling author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and the founder of the website Mad In America,...
Twenty-two of 24 respondents (91.7%) voted no on the summer Counterpoint poll: “If you threaten emergency department staff while in a mental health crisis, should you be arrested for a crime?” The question related to legislation introduced in Montpelier in January...
Watching the General Assembly’s last-minute scramble in June to figure out how not to kick 2,000 homeless Vermonters out of the motels sheltering them, I thought about all the time that legislators had spent during the winter and spring deliberating over bills that...
Commentary by Anne Donahue Almost 25 years. That’s how long it’s been since I took on the job as editor of Counterpoint. This is my final issue; I’m retiring this month. The changes over that time in the psychiatric survivor world have been a kaleidoscope of the good...
