By Russell Auguillard
From PHN Issue 54, Fall 2023
Living with a mental illness often requires a person to create a schedule of activities, groups and therapy. Where you are, you can start now, with groups, therapy and approved programs that are operating through your prison or facilities. One common mental illness a person can be affected by and go through, but not even know that they have it, is antisocial personality disorder. One place they find themselves without even being conscious of it is in the prison system as first, second, or multiple-time offenders. You can do something about it starting today, by first beginning to manage your thoughts, then your life.
Therapy: Therapy is you as an individual talking regularly with the prison mental health doctor or social workers, either in their offices, while they’re making rounds, or sometimes you can write to them—and that’s your therapy.
Through your prison, they may have approved programs such as Living in Balance, Nurturing Parenting, Inside/Out Dad, or Anger Management. Some classes are a requirement in order to make parole. Consume your medication with a mindset of telling yourself: I’m looking to manage my thoughts, and, once that’s established, then my situation. That habit creates behavior.
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