Cohen Miles-Rath
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I have been in the mental health advocacy field for more than a half a decade now. I worked at the Mental Health Association in New York State for five years. If you're familiar with the MHA Network on Mental Health America, they're an affiliate of theirs. And it was work around policy advocacy, implementing training throughout New York State, mental health-related training.
I have been in the mental health advocacy field for more than a half a decade now. I worked at the Mental Health Association in New York State for five years. If you're familiar with the MHA Network on Mental Health America, they're an affiliate of theirs. And it was work around policy advocacy, implementing training throughout New York State, mental health-related training.
I have been in the mental health advocacy field for more than a half a decade now. I worked at the Mental Health Association in New York State for five years. If you're familiar with the MHA Network on Mental Health America, they're an affiliate of theirs. And it was work around policy advocacy, implementing training throughout New York State, mental health-related training.
We offered a bunch of different trainings and so forth. In the past year, I moved on to the New York State Office of Mental Health, which I work for the Suicide Prevention Center, in which I do similar work, but geared towards suicide prevention. That's my professional space.
We offered a bunch of different trainings and so forth. In the past year, I moved on to the New York State Office of Mental Health, which I work for the Suicide Prevention Center, in which I do similar work, but geared towards suicide prevention. That's my professional space.
We offered a bunch of different trainings and so forth. In the past year, I moved on to the New York State Office of Mental Health, which I work for the Suicide Prevention Center, in which I do similar work, but geared towards suicide prevention. That's my professional space.
Now, I also have my own story with mental illness in which I've written a memoir about and I am publishing that memoir this year. I've spent about six years trying to get this thing published. And on top of that, I've been out doing speaking engagements, telling my story, sharing the peer perspective about going through systems such as incarceration and hospitalizations and so forth.
Now, I also have my own story with mental illness in which I've written a memoir about and I am publishing that memoir this year. I've spent about six years trying to get this thing published. And on top of that, I've been out doing speaking engagements, telling my story, sharing the peer perspective about going through systems such as incarceration and hospitalizations and so forth.
Now, I also have my own story with mental illness in which I've written a memoir about and I am publishing that memoir this year. I've spent about six years trying to get this thing published. And on top of that, I've been out doing speaking engagements, telling my story, sharing the peer perspective about going through systems such as incarceration and hospitalizations and so forth.
Yeah, so that's a great question because I did not have any inclination to accept anything the difficulties that I was facing with my mental health, which did increase to a severe mental health crisis until after the worst of my mental health crisis had happened. And that was the day that I came back from psychosis in jail, where I had come back to reality and realizing what had happened.
Yeah, so that's a great question because I did not have any inclination to accept anything the difficulties that I was facing with my mental health, which did increase to a severe mental health crisis until after the worst of my mental health crisis had happened. And that was the day that I came back from psychosis in jail, where I had come back to reality and realizing what had happened.
Yeah, so that's a great question because I did not have any inclination to accept anything the difficulties that I was facing with my mental health, which did increase to a severe mental health crisis until after the worst of my mental health crisis had happened. And that was the day that I came back from psychosis in jail, where I had come back to reality and realizing what had happened.
From that moment on, I did a complete 180, embracing mental health treatments, accepting my mental illness, and eventually getting to where I'm at today.
From that moment on, I did a complete 180, embracing mental health treatments, accepting my mental illness, and eventually getting to where I'm at today.
From that moment on, I did a complete 180, embracing mental health treatments, accepting my mental illness, and eventually getting to where I'm at today.
Due to the incidents that had happened between my father and I that I was arrested for, my first week in jail, I was in like a severe state of psychosis. I was in solitary confinement. And I'd experienced just this horrific situation in which When I did come back and realized what had happened, I wasn't sure I was ever going to get out. I had two felonies, potential felonies.
Due to the incidents that had happened between my father and I that I was arrested for, my first week in jail, I was in like a severe state of psychosis. I was in solitary confinement. And I'd experienced just this horrific situation in which When I did come back and realized what had happened, I wasn't sure I was ever going to get out. I had two felonies, potential felonies.