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Insights from While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.
As I read the rest of her insights, I realized this is where it all starts. We don’t have a mental health care system. If we had some semblance of a system the other four insights would go without saying. We’d see mental health patients as human beings, we would listen to them about their lived experiences, we’d have support systems for families, and we’d understand that despite all the effort and love put in, some people would still lose the battle, just like we do with cancer and every other illness.
Link – Coping with Stress is Essential for Recovery
This is as true for those of us dealing with mental health, or abuse recovery as well. The healing process gets completely disrupted when we are n’t dealing with stress. “Life throws us many uncontrollable stressful situations. Social conflicts, finances, finding a new job, and worrying about health can be a fork in the road…
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Guideposts for Surviving a Loved One’s Suicide How to Deal with an Anxiety Attack Stigma: Persevering in the face of negative perception What It Takes to Be an Mental Health Advocate: An Interview With Christina Huff Promoting A Better System Of Care For Mental Health Linked – Protecting your children from online predators and grooming…
What Does Depression Look Like?
I want you to stop for a minute and picture in your minds eye what it looks like when you see an article about depression, in a magazine, online, or even on television? I bet I can guess what’s in your head, because it’s the same thing that pops into most of our heads. A…
Sharing – Building Emotional Intelligence Isn’t as Hard as You Think
Emotional intelligence is something that I struggled with while I was healing, and as I look around the child abuse survivor community, I think that struggle is common. All too often we never really learned these skills as kids, and are also usually really good at masking our emotions, even from ourselves. But, this can…
