Headcase

Stephanie Schroeder, JD, is a freelance writer, peer advocate and housing specialist in New York City. Teresa Theophano, LCSW, is a freelance writer/editor and a social worker in the field of aging. She lives in New York City.

Foreword
Kai Cheng Thom
Introduction
Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano

Part I: Conversations About Mental Health and Wellness

1. Falling Between the Cracks of Queer and Black
Tanisha Neely
2. Queer Affirmative Therapy
Arlene Istar Lev
3. Not All Wounds Are Visible
Louisa Hammond
4. Border/ lines
Juan Antonio Trujillo
5. Sa Kanyang Sariling Mga Salita: Health, Identity, and Articulations of Self
Donald V. Brown, Jr., with Fidelindo A. Lim
6. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
Lynn Breedlove
7. LGBTQ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues: A Provider's Journey
Joseph Ruggiero
8. The Bone Crushing
Bill Konigsberg

Part II: Stories of Survival

9. In Chiron's Footsteps
Paula J. Williams
10. Not Our Fault
Chana Wilson
11. Figuring It Out Together: Mental Health Survival Strategies from Detroit's Queer and Trans Youth of Color
Lance Hicks
12. Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies)
J. R. Sullivan Voss
13. The Family Legacy Ends Here
Teresa Theophano
14. Roll the Dice
Michael Brown
15. Jesus and the Closets
Sara Zaanti
16. The Lived Experience of LGBT Veterans: Finding Support Within the VA Healthcare System
Kathryn Wagner

Part III: Encounters of the Mad Kind

17. Psychiatry
Kate Millett
18. Surviving Science, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Mad and Queer
Calvin Rey Moen
19. Knowing Reynolds
Lucy Winer
20. On a Subway Platform, a Life Flashes- Here, Gone
Antoine B. Craigwell
21. This Work Is About Digested Socks
Gabrielle Jordan Stein
22. Taming My Inner Fundamentalist
Kelly Barth
23. Fix Me Please: I'm Gay!
Guy Albert
24. Crowdsourcing My Antipsychotic
Stephanie Schroeder

Part IV: Pushing Boundaries

25. On Listening to Clients, or Why Do Providers Sometimes Have a Hard Time Hearing What Recipients of Care Have to Say?
Christian Huygen
26. Problem Glyphs
Eliza Gauger
27. Erasure
Gabriella M. Belfiglio
28. Informed Consent
Asher J. Wickell
29. Bad Penny
J. M. Ellison
30. Liberating The Big Pink Elephant in the Therapy Room
Thomas Mondragon
31. GLEAM
Nikkiesha N. McLeod

Part V: The Poetics of Mental Health and Wellness

32. Outlier: The Agoraphobia Fragments
Kevin Shaw
33. Were You Confused as a Child?
Stephen Mead
34. Pleasure- Based Parenting
Crista Anne
35. Doctor Anonymous: A Play, and a Lesson in Medical Ethics
Guy Fredrick Glass
36. Jekyll's Lover
James Penha
37. Feathers
Benjamin Klas

Resources
Index
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