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From Gang Member to Mental Health Advocate

I grew up in an inner-city community in San Diego, California, called “Southeast.” This area has always been known for crime, drugs and — m...

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How EMDR Healed My Trauma

It is through my own experience with loud sound as the most healing salve I have ever known that I recognize how deeply many of us want to feel better.

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How Research Is Advancing Our Understanding of OCD

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Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression

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Neuroplasticity III: Trusting Myself after Psychosis & Jail

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The Power of Insight Building for People with Mental Illness

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How My Relationships with My Caregivers Has Helped Me Navigate Schizoaffective Disorder

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My Journey to Accepting My Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Hearing Voices and Turning Them Off Through Meditation

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I Think I Might Be Gay

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The Game-Changing Legacy of The Affordable Care Act

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Surviving the Bed Shortage in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: A Teenager’s Experience

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My Fight for Recovery

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What No One Told Me About Being in a Psych Hospital

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Losing a Client to Suicide: Navigating the Aftermath as a Therapist

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What I’ve Learned on My Mental Health Journey

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Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System

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How the Justice System Fails Those with Mental Illness

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How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

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All People Deserve Quality Care, Including Those Who Are Incarcerated

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It’s Not the Hormones: Reflections on a Teenage Girl’s Traumatic Crisis

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More than a Patient: Using a Recovery-Based Approach

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Engaging Your Community in the Mental Health Conversation

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Black Men and Mental Health: Practical Solutions

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Type 2 Diabetes and Mental Health: Exploring the Connection

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Physical and Mental Illness in Children: Both Need to Be Taken Seriously

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Children Should Not Have to Be Resilient

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How I Cope with Agoraphobia

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My Battle with Skin Picking

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The Power and Value of Insight

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Ask Dr. Christine: Youth Mental Health

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Finding the Right Treatment Fit

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How Faith, Family and a Comedy Career Helped My Recovery

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Critical Things to Know About Emotions for Mental Health and Healing

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Three Questions to Ask a Prospective Therapist

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The Widely Neglected Healing Power of Music

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My Journey into Postpartum Bipolar and Back Again

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Living with Both DID and Schizophrenia

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How We Can Improve our Approach to Treating Psychosis

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Expressive Arts Therapy: A Sensory Approach to Trauma Healing

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Building Stronger Mental Health Support for Caregivers

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My Son Has Schizophrenia. This is My Advice to Caregivers.

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Telling Your Partner about Your Mental Health Diagnosis

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What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma

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What I Wish I Had Known About Borderline Personality Disorder

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What I Wish I Had Known: We Don’t Have to Wait for a Crisis

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5 Truths I Discovered on My Road to Recovery

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Lessons Learned: Embracing Treatment and Finding Acceptance

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What I Wish I Had Known on My 20-Year Mental Health Journey

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What I Wish I’d Known About Therapy: How to Use CBT and DBT

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What I Wish I’d Known About Medication: Debunking Myths About Antipsychotics

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How Law Enforcement Perpetuated My Son’s Trauma During a Mental Health Crisis

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Ten Questions to Ask Your Psychotherapist

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Shifting the Research Lens: Mothers of Adult Children with SMI

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My Battle with Bipolar Disorder

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Surviving to Thriving: Coping with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Understanding Bipolar Disorder

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I’ve Taken an Anti-Psychotic Medication and I’m Not Ashamed

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What to Expect During an Inpatient Stay

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Embracing Hip-Hop Music in Mental Health Treatment

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Approaching Mental Health Care with a Trauma-Informed Perspective

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Music Therapy: More Than Just Entertainment

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Growing Up with Panic Attacks

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I Didn’t Treat My Son’s Mental Illness. Now, We Both Face the Consequences.

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Missing the Early Warning Signs: My Son’s Journey with Schizophrenia

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Understanding The Early Warning Signs of Mental Illness

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No Illness, Mental or Physical, is Shameful

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Exploring My Own Healing as an Expressive Arts Therapist

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Reimagining Mental Health in Schools

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It’s Time for New Standards for Mental Health Care

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Building a Recovery-Oriented System of Care

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How Time Line Therapy Has Helped Me

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Every First Responder Deserves Solace

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Addressing the Lack of Diversity in the Mental Health Field

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Why We Need Mental Health Care Integration

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Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About

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Boredom as a Symptom

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Recent Study Calls for Reevaluating Antidepressant Warnings

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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Understanding Mental Illness Triggers

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Recent Changes May Affect Access to an Important Medication

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How to Prepare for Your Psychiatric Appointment

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What I Learned from Experiencing Postpartum OCD and Depression

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Listening to the Whispers of Mental Illness Before They Turn into Shouts

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Medications Are Not the Only Way to Treat Depression

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How My Daughter’s Experience Shaped My Career in Rural Mental Health Care

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Understanding and Addressing the Ambiguity in Psychiatry

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Navigating Financial Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

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My Experience with Diagnostic Overshadowing

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Overcoming Cultural Barriers on the Road to Recovery

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Bipolar Depression: The Lows We Don’t Talk About Enough

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Are You Really Treatment Resistant?

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How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma

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Neurofeedback: A Complement to Talk Therapy and Medication

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Truth About Dissociative Identity Disorder

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The Transdiagnostic Dimensional Approach: Another Way of Understanding Mental Illness

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How the Mental Health Community Can Support Black Mental Health

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Addressing the Increased Risk of Postpartum Depression for Black Women

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Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian

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Fighting Gender-Based Harassment and Depression

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