Left of the Dial is my story: it’s the only one I have to give.
I had long wanted to talk about other things not dwell on symptoms and hell in a book. The technical term for those kinds of books is “misery memoir.”
My perpetual point exactly is that getting the right help right away can halt the progression of the illness–can halt disability.
At HealthCentral I did write extensively about illness and treatment. Yet I always tried to offer a different more hopeful and empowered way of thinking about and accessing treatment.
I’ll end here by saying that using the Asset Model to treat people is the way to go: to focus on our gifts and strengths, not deficits and weaknesses.
This is certainly the way to go in providing career counseling for peers.
At HealthCentral I wrote about what I call the Triangle of Mental Health: appropriate medication, quicker individualized treatment, and practical career counseling.
Now in the Flourish blog I would like to focus on this Triangle in detail.
A fortune cookie I once cracked open revealed:
The best angle from which to approach a problem is the TRYangle.
Indeed.
Left of the Dial 