Fountain House’s Silver Center for Older Adults: It Takes a Village to “Live Long and Prosper” with Behavioral Health Challenges

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS Fountain House
• July 29th, 2024
• community, mental health, older adults, rehabilitation, Summer 2024 Issue
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What’s in a name? Just as age 60 is supposedly the new 40, the silver hair on older heads is now apparently worth its weight in gold. However, the “silver” in Silver Center refers to the respect certain cultures, such as the Japanese, confer on their elders. So, when you read about the...

Stand Up for Mental Health: Comedy that Gets Respect!

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS Peer Specialist
• January 22nd, 2024
• diversity, mental health advocacy, mental health comedy, recovery, self-deprecating humor, self-respect, stand up for mental health, stigma, therapeutic laughter, Winter 2024 Issue
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While performing comedy at hotels in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Rodney Dangerfield first complained in the 1960s, “I don’t get no respect.” Born “Jacob Rodney Cohen,” he was one of many Jewish comedians, such as Jackie Mason, George Burns, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Sid Caesar,...

From Crisis to Recovery: The Role of Peer Support Specialists at NYC Well

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS NYU Langone Health
• April 18th, 2023
• anxiety, depression, peer support, peer support specialist, peers, recovery, Spring 2023 Issue, substance use disorder, suicide
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In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie Smith states that as a result of reading Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, she discovered “two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” That she...