a psychiatric advance directive (PAD) is a legal document, or in this case, personal art, that details a person’s preferences for future mental health treatment and especially in crisis.

in my search for family, here is an artistic expression of the real one i’m working on. I hope it can help you create one so that you don’t get retraumatized if god forbid 911 or 988 is called on you too and you don’t have a psychiatrist

care team:

Psychiatrist (looking, but I don’t like medication)
Therapist (looking for a future new one)
Best Friends (Matea, Paola, Elli, Eric)
myself (my personal website)
music and my cat
art therapy
group therapy
NAMI SF
Baba’s House
tattoo artist