scholarly journals DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AS A PROFESSIONAL LIVE STREAMER

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Richard Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Positive Elements ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
The Many

In this paper I explore economic and inclusion opportunities for people with disabilities and mental health issues afforded by ‘live streaming’ ‒ the live broadcast of one’s activities over the internet to a globally dispersed audience. In both 2016 and 2017, the leading live streaming platform Twitch.tv broadcast over 500,000 years of video, which were produced by over two million regular broadcasters (‘streamers’), and consumed by an audience of several hundred million viewers. Streamers can profit, up to and including a full-time living ‘wage’ for those at the highest levels. Numerous successful streamers with chronic health issues have discussed the personal and professional benefits streaming brings them. Utilising data from a research project with 100 interviews, alongside approximately 500 hours of ethnographic observation, this paper examines the experiences of live streaming for broadcasters with disabilities, mental health issues, or physical health issues. Firstly, I explore the positive elements of streaming for these broadcasters, focusing on the many conditions represented in this demographic, and the benefits streaming gives for inclusion and community. Secondly, I consider the negative experiences of these streamers, focused on entanglements of health and technology that make their streaming lives potentially more challenging than their colleagues. Thirdly, I focus on the economic opportunities, and the potential for entrepreneurial activity, the platform affords. I conclude the analysis by exploring how these aspects make live streaming a potentially exemplary emancipatory and entrepreneurial space for these individuals, but not one without challenges.

Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Jacqueline Lantsman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
The Many

Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death watch, and impending dates of execution. Death row narratives offer a nuanced account of the many ways condemned prisoners must contend with their powerlessness as an essential element of life under sentence of death.

School nurses: An investment in student achievement

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (7) ◽  
pp. 8-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin D. Maughan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Registered Nurse ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
School Nursing ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Issues

School nurses help students with the prevention and management of chronic physical and mental health issues, but not all schools have a full-time registered nurse on their staff. The author argues that investing in school nursing has benefits that extend beyond the school and into the community.

¿Que Estoy Loca? –– Crazy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-213
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Time Position ◽  
Prolonged Stress ◽  
National Alliance

Mental health does not discriminate against race, color, gender, or religion. Unfortunately, anyone can experience symptoms of mental distress or illness at some point of their lives. The National Alliance of Mental Illness acknowledged that there exists a stigma among Latinos associated with mental health issues. They are ashamed to be seen as loco/crazy or débil/weak. Through the process of collecting data for my study, several participants shared that they have suffered from severe stress in the process of achieving tenure or securing a full-time position in their journey in academe. The symptoms of stress (emotional tension), depression (despondency and dejection), and ultimately, burnout (emotional, physical, and mental fatigue from prolonged stress) have, in many cases, caused setbacks in careers or health issues. This chapter will present the characteristics of stress, depression, and burnout, which are some of the socio-emotional symptoms of mental health problems. The purpose will be to create awareness about them and to point out the importance of seeking help if a person experiences any of these symptoms, especially Latinas in higher education institutions.

Hitting Rock Bottom

Outlaw Women ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 45-86
Author(s):  
Susan Dewey ◽  
Bonnie Zare ◽  
Catherine Connolly ◽  
Rhett Epler ◽  
Rosemary Bratton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Many

This chapter addresses the addiction and mental health trajectories that led a significant number of women to prison. It elucidates how, for some women, prison offered their first real opportunity to receive sustained medical and other therapeutic treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. This situation complements the chapter’s central argument that rural social control mechanisms uniquely criminalize and stigmatize women’s substance abuse and mental health issues while discouraging help seeking. Focusing particularly on the experiences of “Tammi,” a nineteen-year-old serving a relatively short drug-related sentence and whose “outlaw family” includes many individuals incarcerated in Wyoming jails and prisons, the chapter details the socio-conceptual organization of available addictions treatment within and outside the prison’s extremely isolated Wyoming context. The chapter explores the social and interpersonal organization of the prison’s Intensive Treatment Unit, a separate housing unit that adheres to the therapeutic community model. It examines the social and conceptual organization of other prison therapeutic groups organized by prison staff, volunteers, and the women themselves. This chapter also documents “Nedrah’s” journey through one of the many approaches to reentry taken by the women in their attempts to maintain sobriety and avoid individuals and places that contributed to their addictions.

scholarly journals Discovering Myself, a Journey of Rediscovery

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-284
Author(s):  
Waldo Roeg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Drug Misuse ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Recovery Movement ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Many

AbstractIn this chapter, the author describes his own journey of recovery from a potentially lethal combination of mental health issues and drug misuse. Now working as a peer support expert in the Recovery College movement, he draws out the many factors involved in his own recovery and how these inform his current role. Key to these are the values of ‘hope, control and opportunity’ by which the culture of the recovery movement is characterized. It is through these that as Waldo concludes, they ‘challenge stigma and genuinely recognize the strengths and contribution that everyone can make’.

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