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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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How EMDR Healed My Trauma

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Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression

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Building Connections: How Relationships and Time with Peers Can Improve Mental Health

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Power of Connection: Co-facilitating a NAMI Support Group

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Developing Strategies and Finding Community: My Experience in Support Groups

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Taking Community Suicide Prevention to the Next Level

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The Power of Insight Building for People with Mental Illness

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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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How Improving My Mental Health Helped Me Reconnect with My Culture

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Addressing Mental Health Barriers in the AAPI Community

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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Rethinking How We Measure Progress in Mental Health Treatment

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Writing to Spread Awareness about Bipolar Disorder

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

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Understanding and Assessing Self-Harm: What You Need to Know

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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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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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The Case for Expanding Peer Support

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

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Certified Peer Specialists: An Untapped Opportunity

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The Importance of Treatment Adherence and Coordinated Care

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

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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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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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Pursuing Motherhood While Living with Mental Illness

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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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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 Working as a NAMI HelpLine Volunteer Changed My Life

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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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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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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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Three Questions to Ask a Prospective Therapist

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The Widely Neglected Healing Power of Music

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Living with Both DID and Schizophrenia

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

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Ten Questions to Ask Your Psychotherapist

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Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community

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Fighting Stigma with Education

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Exploring My Own Healing as an Expressive Arts Therapist

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What Mental Health Care Can Learn from Dental Health Care Strategies

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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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How Advocates Can Push for A Crises Standard of Care

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Addressing the Lack of Diversity in the Mental Health Field

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Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About

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Understanding and Managing Psychosis

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Boredom as a Symptom

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Recent Study Calls for Reevaluating Antidepressant Warnings

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The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Fishing

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How Music Shaped My Mental Health Journey

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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The Importance of Finding Acceptance on My Mental Health Journey

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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 I Developed a Healthy Relationship with Exercise to Help My Mental Health

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Finding Reality Through Cartooning

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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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Weaving the Threads of Healing Through Writing

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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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Overcoming Inadequate Crisis Response: Why 988 is an Opportunity

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Overcoming Regional Barriers: Navigating Rural Mental Health Care

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Exploring the Connection Between Trauma Healing and Physical Health

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How Mindfulness Helped Me Cope with My Husband’s Suicide

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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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Finding My Way Back from Suicidal Thoughts

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7 Behaviors for Improving Mental Health

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How I Founded The Company I Needed During My Journey with OCD

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Neurofeedback: A Complement to Talk Therapy and Medication

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Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder

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I Am in Charge of My Treatment Plan

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Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian

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