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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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Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression

The important thing is to ask for help and muster up the strength to follow through.

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The Reality of “High Functioning” Depression

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Power of Connection: Co-facilitating a NAMI Support Group

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Parenting after Receiving a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

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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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Becoming Who I was Before Schizophrenia — Or Should I?

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A Cultural Experience of Recovery

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Finding Mental Health Support After Leaving My Hasidic Community

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How Improving My Mental Health Helped Me Reconnect with My Culture

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We Don’t Feel Safe: Marginalization and Mental Health Challenges in the Queer Community

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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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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Advocating for Veterans’ Mental Health Gave Me a New Purpose in Life

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Writing to Spread Awareness about Bipolar Disorder

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Being Queer is Joyful

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Destigmatizing Mental Health Through Music

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

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Getting Involved with NAMI on My College Campus

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The Comforting and Frustrating Realization that You Are Not Alone

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Early Psychosis Intervention

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I Wish They’d Seen It Sooner: Growing Up Undiagnosed

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Navigating Early Recovery from Schizophrenia

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Discovering Self-Love and Acceptance after Tragedy and Mental Illness

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Transcending the Self-Stigma From my Youth

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Reminding My Younger Self That I’m “More Than Enough”

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Dealing with Schizophrenia in a Crowded Restaurant

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Determining The Credibility of Social Media Mental Health “Experts”

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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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The Dual Life of Being a Peer with Bipolar Disorder and a Mental Health Clinician

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Navigating Depression and Medical Leave from College

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Separating My Identity From a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

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Certified Peer Specialists: An Untapped Opportunity

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What I’ve Learned on My Mental Health Journey

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The Importance of Treatment Adherence and Coordinated Care

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Thriving on the Bipolar Spectrum: Changing the Narrative with Stories of Lived Experience

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

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Engaging Your Community in the Mental Health Conversation

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Pursuing Motherhood While Living with Mental Illness

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Type 2 Diabetes and Mental Health: Exploring the Connection

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Children Should Not Have to Be Resilient

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Embracing Physical Touch and Meditation for Emotional Well-Being

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How I Cope with Agoraphobia

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My Battle with Skin Picking

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How I Navigated Gender and Sexuality with Multiple Personalities

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Hygiene Indifference: The Symptom We Don’t Talk About

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The Power and Value of Insight

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4 Tips for Sharing Your Mental Health Journey on Social Media

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My Schizophrenia Checklist

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Facing the Aftermath of Abuse: My Ongoing Journey Towards Healing

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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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Why I’m Not Making Any New Year’s Resolutions

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Hanging On the Edge: Rock Climbing and the Therapeutic Relationship

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How I Stay Above Water

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How The Pandemic Helped Me Build a Stronger Self

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How to Cope with Insensitive Comments about Your Mental Health

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Three Questions to Ask a Prospective Therapist

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How Fandom Conventions Allow Me to Be My True Self

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Mental Health Resolutions for the New Year

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The Widely Neglected Healing Power of Music

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Supporting Mental Health in The Workplace

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Living with Both DID and Schizophrenia

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The “Happiest” Time of The Year: Tips for Managing Holiday Stress

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How to Help Yourself and Others with Suicidal Ideation

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The Importance of Prioritizing Emotional Wellness over Academic Achievement

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Finding Connection: Helping Child Sexual Abuse Survivors in Marginalized Communities

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Emotional Recovery from Psychosis: Trusting and Believing in Yourself Again

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Addressing Youth Mental Health in NAMI’s Next Book

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Managing Mental Illness and Parenthood

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Telling Your Partner about Your Mental Health Diagnosis

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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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Observing 27 Years with OCD

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Five Schizophrenia Coping Skills I Can’t Live Without

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What I Wish I Had Known About Stigma: I Don’t Want to be “Normal”

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Caring for Those Who Care for Us: Physician Suicide Awareness and Prevention

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Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts

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From Hopelessness to Empowerment: My Ingredients to Recovery

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Walking on a Tight Rope: Coping with Depression

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Enduring a Schizophrenia Relapse

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Fighting Internalized Stigma and Changing My Attitude

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Three Lessons I Learned from a Decade in Therapy

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Adopting a Cat Helped Me Find Recovery

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How Finding NAMI Was Pivotal to My Recovery

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How to Prepare for Your Psychiatric Appointment

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Learning to Identify and Self-Manage Mania

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Healing After My Son’s Suicide

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Reclaiming the Memories of My Sister

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7 Behaviors for Improving Mental Health

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Serious Mental Illness Recovery: The Basics

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Aspects of Culturally Competent Care That We Don’t Talk About (But Need To)

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Learning My Warning Signs Through Each Stage of My Life

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Tips for Running a Peer Support Group Online

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Recovery Begins with a Decision

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