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Students With Psychosis collaborated videos have gained over 35 million views on multiple platforms combined in collaboration with TEDx, a three-time feature on SBSK, Barcroft TV, Anthony Padilla, and CBS This Morning national news. We have been featured in Glamour UK, The Boston Globe, Women’s Health Magazine, twice in Forbes, USA Today College, Healthline, Daily Mail, The Indian Express, MTV University, Parade, WGBH, Mental Health America, etc.

RETHINK EVENT | March 6th, 2020

Students With Psychosis hosted its first RETHINK event in the Fashion District of New York City on March 6th, 2020, including a protest fashion show collaborating with the clothing brand Schizophrenic.NYC and flying in guest speakers from outside of the United States such as Lauren Kennedy West and Rob Kennedy West from the Living Well With Schizophrenia YouTube channel with over 100 thousand subscribers. During RETHINK week, 2019-2020 Students With Psychosis Advocacy Board Members Lauren Kennedy and Rob Lim from Living Well With Schizophrenia sat down with fellow Advocacy Board Members to share their stories!

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Our Boston Hub rocks! 🚀🚀🚀 We are looking forward to monthly hub meetups throughout 2023! See you next month! Stay tuned! @studentswithpsychosis Thank you, MIT and Harvard, for having us and including the lived experience perspective of psychosis in your course work. 🚀🚀🚀 @studentswithpsychosis Thank you, MIT and Harvard, for having us and including the lived experience perspective of psychosis in your course work. 🚀🚀🚀 @studentswithpsychosis Students With Psychosis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers student leaders and advocates worldwide through community building and collaboration. We provide over 160+ hours monthly of virtual programming at no cost to our student leaders and advocates, with at least five hours facilitated each day and opportunities to get more involved. Faculty, student lived experience, and advocate lived experience memberships are free with paid membership tiers for mental health professionals, students pursuing a mental health degree, creatives, and friends/family members. Members can apply for an intern, advocate, brand ambassador, event coordinator, or community group leadership position to get more involved. Students With Psychosis' primary objectives include: (1) growing and connecting our virtual and in-person programs, (2) organizing outreach initiatives, and (3) founding in-person college clubs/affiliates/hubs. This Giving Tuesday, help empower students and advocates who are living with psychosis! Make a donation to @studentswithpsychosis today! www.sws.ngo (LINK IN BIO) Michelle J (she/her) is a South Korean translator and student. Michelle currently serves as the Vice President Administration for @studentswithpsychosis . Samantha @TheLandOfAsgard joined @studentswithpsychosis as a media intern back in 2019 and is currently serving as an Executive Board Member with @studentswithpsychosis. Would it be a @studentswithpsychosis We want to give a HUGE shout out to our intern @maureen_mcsweeney for organizing tonight's OPEN MIC at 7 PM ET TONIGHT on Instagram Live @studentswithpsychosis. See you there! Thank you Mass-STEP 2022 for having @studentswithpsychosis as your keynote this year. GO TEAM 🚀🚀🚀 Thank you Mass-STEP 2022 for having @studentswithpsychosis as your keynote this year. GO TEAM 🚀🚀🚀 Shira Agam, you knocked that presentation out of the park 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Team @studentswithpsychosis taking on Sacramento, California, at the ISPS-US National Conference. GO TEAM 🚀🚀 Team @studentswithpsychosis taking on Sacramento, California, at the ISPS-US National Conference. GO TEAM 🚀🚀 Team @studentswithpsychosis taking on Sacramento, California, at the ISPS-US National Conference. GO TEAM 🚀🚀 "Throughout the history of humanity, groups that are underrepresented get repeatedly taken advantage of, blamed, and marginalized. This is happening today with the community of people with psychosis. It is difficult living in a society where most people's perception of a person with psychosis is the fear-driven misrepresentation you often see in the media. It is difficult living in a society where many people's definition of "crazy" is aligned with the notion that hearing, feeling, seeing something that is not there or believing in something that is not true makes a person "crazy." I see, hear, and feel things that are not there and live with scattered thoughts and paranoia, but that does not make me "crazy." The "crazy" label has weight. It says or makes you feel like your opinion does not matter. It makes you feel like less of a person. It makes you feel invisible and worthless. It is difficult living in a society where we are so often not taken seriously; our valid fears are often overlooked as paranoia, and our dreams and ambitions are dismissed as delusions of grandeur. I have had a past doctor treat my thoughts of founding @studentswithpsychosis and wanting to move to NYC and helping fellow people with psychosis as delusions. I have been dismissed from a hospital knowing and telling the nurses that I was not okay to leave and that the medication was too sedating to leave safely on my own and was dismissed saying that I was experiencing "paranoia" written in my medical notes. Later, I was found passed out on the grass and woken up by a police officer because I was trying to get home but was too heavily sedated and was not able to stay awake long enough to wait for the bus. I have had people close to me leave or not want to be associated with me as if it is something to be ashamed about because I am so open about my schizophrenia. I am not "crazy." I am more than my symptoms. Sure, I hallucinate, have scattered thoughts, and live with a certain level of paranoia, but I am also a person who has valid opinions, valid fears, valid dreams, valid hopes, and valid ambitions. I'm a person too." Executive Director, @cecilia_mcgough Thank you so much, Harvard University, for having @studentswithpsychosis ! See you again in January! Thank you so much, Harvard University, for having us! See you again in January! Hi folks! My name is Maureen (they/them) and I’m thrilled to be a @studentswithpsychosis intern this semester. I could never have imagined finding a community like this when I was in the midst of my first psychotic episode earlier this year. It’s great to have a group of people in a similar life stage, with similar mental health struggles, that I can turn to any day of the week and talk to openly about my mental health and experiences. @studentswithpsychosis has become a staple in my recovery as I work to navigate both new and old diagnoses. Y’all inspire me every day and remind me we are much more than diagnostic labels. But since we live in a label-happy world let me throw out a few that describe this group: diverse, creative, intelligent, motivated, focused, compassionate, tolerant, kind, well-spoken. I could continue. Excited to work with you all as we support one another, listen, educate, and strive to destigmatize psychosis. OPEN MIC NIGHT! TONIGHT!!! OPEN MIC NIGHT! TONIGHT!!! OPEN MIC NIGHT! TONIGHT!!! OPEN MIC NIGHT! TONIGHT!!! ONE WEEK AWAY 🚀🚀🚀 ONE WEEK AWAY 🚀🚀🚀 This World Mental Health Day, remember that psychosis is a global topic with no one size fits all approach or experience. We have so much to learn from each other. Listen to people living with psychosis. Happy World Mental Health Day from @studentswithpsychosis The 2023-24 Baer Reintegration Scholarship Application is now live from our friends at @centerforreintegration 🚀🚀🚀 Kody! It was so great to finally get an in-person sit-down with you. Thank you for all of the education and awareness you do for the psychosis community in your advocacy. Rock on 🚀🚀🚀 #HealtheVoices22 "Love these two so incredibly much 💞💞 I met Maye and Jason Jepson at the 2019 Healthevoices Conference, and they have felt like family ever since. #HealtheVoices22 " - @cecilia_mcgough