Author: Kate Fitch

by Kate Fitch I read this article today that talked about how stigma impacts the way we talk about our personal stories. How people often talk about their mental health struggles in the past tense, and rarely mention current struggles

by Kate Fitch There’s a lot going on right now! If you’re in school, you’ve got finals or are waiting for final grades to come out. Financial end of year is right around the corner, and of course, the holidays.

by Kate Fitch Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, pushed forward by Representative Tim Murphy, is ANTI-RECOVERY. SAMHSA has established a working definition of recovery that we at the Network stand behind. It calls recovery “a process of change

by Kate Fitch The Murphy Bill seeks to expand HIPAA privacy exceptions to an unreasonable extent for people with mental illness. Privacy laws as they exist now already allow for the disclosure of protected health information under emergency circumstances and

by Kate Fitch One major emphasis in the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act is the increase in funding toward, and financial incentive to States for implementing, “Assisted Outpatient Treatment.” This is less euphemistically known as Involuntary Outpatient Commitment.

by Kate Fitch Today’s post is about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). OCD seems to be a common joke when someone seems tidy, or the subject of photo series’ on the internet depicting things with bothersome asymmetry. These might look familiar:

by Kate Fitch, CMWN volunteer Representative Tim Murphy published an opinion piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that deeply, deeply concerns me. You may remember Murphy as the author of the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. The proposed