No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 17: Dr. Dan Fisher

5/18/2018

No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 17: Dr. Dan Fisher

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This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Dr. Dan Fisher. Dan is the CEO of the National Empowerment Center which helps organize and develop consumer-run organizations and helps individuals and groups develop knowledge and ability to transform the mental health service system toward a more recovery-oriented and consumer-and-family approach. He is also one of the creators of Emotional CPR (eCPR) which is an educational program designed to teach people to assist others through an emotional crisis. I had the privilege of interviewing Dan inside his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts which is a first for No Restraints. Topics discussed include his critical views on psychiatry, the term “recovery,” forced psychiatric hospitalization, and promoting the Alternatives Conference, which his organization The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery is holding in Washington, DC from July 29th through August 3rd. Even if you don’t agree with all of Dan’s views this interview is worth watching if only to be exposed to different perspectives. I’ll see you next Friday at 12pm PT/ET (sadly, from just my apartment) for a brand new No Restraints with Rudy Caseres. Until then, keep showing your support and tell all your friends!

Because it’s for your own good.

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ABOUT RUDY

My name is Rudy Caseres and I am an award-winning public speaker, live-streaming, social media influencer/manager, and storytelling event producer. I am the host of No Restraints with Rudy Caseres where I have live interactive candid discussions with the leading advocates in mental health, human rights, and suicide prevention (currently on hiatus). I also host a monthly panel discussion for The Mighty with the leading mental health advocates in the world. I previously hosted SPSM Chat - Suicide Prevention Social Media where I led lively discussions with various experts in the field of suicidology. I advocate for humane treatment in the mental healthcare system and effective suicide prevention. I have given over 100 presentations in which I have shared my story of living with bipolar, surviving a mental breakdown while serving in the US Army, and fighting against forced psychiatric treatment in front of grad students, doctors, psych ward patients, educators, and youth at junior highs, high schools, and juvenile detention facilities. I have spoken across the country from the California State Capitol at an event headlined by legendary actor Richard Dreyfus to the Shedding Light on Mental Health Conference in Greater Wheeling, West Virginia. My content has been featured in The Mighty, This is My Brave, HealthyPlace, The S Word, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Sweatpants & Coffee, Stigma Fighters, and Schizophrenic NYC. In 2017, I was awarded the NAMI California Outstanding Peer of the Year and I was named one of The Mighty's Mental Health Heroes of 2017. After living in Los Angeles, California most of my life I recently relocated to the Denver, Colorado area.

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