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In the News

In the News

• Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Peter Welch, and Rep. Becca Balint hosted a “town meeting on youth mental health” on June 29 at Spaulding High School in Barre. Sanders cited “a mental health crisis in America,” particularly “for our young people, who are living with...

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Arts and commentary from Counterpoint

‘You Could Be a Light’

‘You Could Be a Light’

Essay by Adam A. Meyers My name is Adam A. Meyers and I was a police officer in Wisconsin for 21 years. On Friday, April 8, 2016, at 5:15 p.m., I was involved in a critical incident when I used deadly force against someone who armed themselves with a hatchet inside a...

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Tips To Fight Panic Attacks

Tips To Fight Panic Attacks

Commentary by Stan Popovich As a published author of a managing fear book, I struggled with fear and anxiety for over 20 years. I am sharing my thoughts here on how to deal with a panic attack. A person can experience a panic attack when they least expect it. This can...

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Editorial: When Help Hurts

Editorial: When Help Hurts

The good intention to help others sometimes flies smack-dab into causing harm instead. How does one balance the good intent of creating a safe physical space for people in crisis against the damage of a space so sanitized and dehumanizing that those same people are at...

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Summer Poems

Summer Poems

An Empty, Colorless Canvas by Morgan Brown Absent requisite artistic studio space,not to mention various and necessaryart supplies, currently unavailablewith which to explore and pursue one’slifelong dream, hope and vision to potentiallyendeavor among the ever...

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What Is a ‘Found Poem’?

What Is a ‘Found Poem’?

Book review by Anne Donahue If you begin reading Parallel Pathways by thumbing through, looking for a poem or story that looks appealing to read, you are likely to pause as some point and ask, “What is a ‘found poem’?” Something written a long time ago, and recently...

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Psychotherapy to the Rescue!

Psychotherapy to the Rescue!

Short fiction by Ron Merkin The more therapy I got the more my interest in women disintegrated. Don’t get me wrong, it didn’t transfer to men. Call it asexuality, distrust. My libido began fading after the psychologist Dr. Bloomstuck began our eleventh session by...

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Membership Has Real Power!

Membership Has Real Power!

Commentary by Zack Hughes, VPS Board Member Have you ever seen this? “We are having a membership meeting.” “Come renew your membership.” Why does it matter? VPS is a membership-driven organization. A member has obligations and has power! What obligations and power?...

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Editorial: Defining Input

Editorial: Defining Input

A brand-new initiative to develop a child and adolescent psych unit at Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington is already off on the wrong foot when it comes to input from psychiatric survivors and their families. Likewise for an initiative to develop an urgent care...

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