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.
It is important to emphasize the pivotal role that research occupies in shaping the trajectory of mental health treatment.
Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression
Neuroplasticity III: Trusting Myself after Psychosis & Jail
The Power of Insight Building for People with Mental Illness
How My Relationships with My Caregivers Has Helped Me Navigate Schizoaffective Disorder
My Journey to Accepting My Dissociative Identity Disorder
Hearing Voices and Turning Them Off Through Meditation
I Think I Might Be Gay
The Game-Changing Legacy of The Affordable Care Act
Surviving the Bed Shortage in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: A Teenager’s Experience
My Fight for Recovery
What No One Told Me About Being in a Psych Hospital
Losing a Client to Suicide: Navigating the Aftermath as a Therapist
What I’ve Learned on My Mental Health Journey
Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System
How the Justice System Fails Those with Mental Illness
How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis
All People Deserve Quality Care, Including Those Who Are Incarcerated
It’s Not the Hormones: Reflections on a Teenage Girl’s Traumatic Crisis
More than a Patient: Using a Recovery-Based Approach
Engaging Your Community in the Mental Health Conversation
Black Men and Mental Health: Practical Solutions
Type 2 Diabetes and Mental Health: Exploring the Connection
Physical and Mental Illness in Children: Both Need to Be Taken Seriously
Children Should Not Have to Be Resilient
How I Cope with Agoraphobia
My Battle with Skin Picking
The Power and Value of Insight
Ask Dr. Christine: Youth Mental Health
Finding the Right Treatment Fit
How Faith, Family and a Comedy Career Helped My Recovery
Critical Things to Know About Emotions for Mental Health and Healing
Three Questions to Ask a Prospective Therapist
The Widely Neglected Healing Power of Music
My Journey into Postpartum Bipolar and Back Again
Living with Both DID and Schizophrenia
How We Can Improve our Approach to Treating Psychosis
Expressive Arts Therapy: A Sensory Approach to Trauma Healing
Building Stronger Mental Health Support for Caregivers
My Son Has Schizophrenia. This is My Advice to Caregivers.
Telling Your Partner about Your Mental Health Diagnosis
What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma
What I Wish I Had Known About Borderline Personality Disorder
What I Wish I Had Known: We Don’t Have to Wait for a Crisis
5 Truths I Discovered on My Road to Recovery
Lessons Learned: Embracing Treatment and Finding Acceptance
What I Wish I Had Known on My 20-Year Mental Health Journey
What I Wish I’d Known About Therapy: How to Use CBT and DBT
What I Wish I’d Known About Medication: Debunking Myths About Antipsychotics
How Law Enforcement Perpetuated My Son’s Trauma During a Mental Health Crisis
Ten Questions to Ask Your Psychotherapist
Shifting the Research Lens: Mothers of Adult Children with SMI
My Battle with Bipolar Disorder
Surviving to Thriving: Coping with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Understanding Bipolar Disorder
I’ve Taken an Anti-Psychotic Medication and I’m Not Ashamed
What to Expect During an Inpatient Stay
Embracing Hip-Hop Music in Mental Health Treatment
Approaching Mental Health Care with a Trauma-Informed Perspective
Music Therapy: More Than Just Entertainment
Growing Up with Panic Attacks
I Didn’t Treat My Son’s Mental Illness. Now, We Both Face the Consequences.
Missing the Early Warning Signs: My Son’s Journey with Schizophrenia
Understanding The Early Warning Signs of Mental Illness
No Illness, Mental or Physical, is Shameful
Exploring My Own Healing as an Expressive Arts Therapist
Reimagining Mental Health in Schools
It’s Time for New Standards for Mental Health Care
Building a Recovery-Oriented System of Care
How Time Line Therapy Has Helped Me
Every First Responder Deserves Solace
Addressing the Lack of Diversity in the Mental Health Field
Why We Need Mental Health Care Integration
Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About
Boredom as a Symptom
Recent Study Calls for Reevaluating Antidepressant Warnings
Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing
Understanding Mental Illness Triggers
Recent Changes May Affect Access to an Important Medication
How to Prepare for Your Psychiatric Appointment
What I Learned from Experiencing Postpartum OCD and Depression
Listening to the Whispers of Mental Illness Before They Turn into Shouts
Medications Are Not the Only Way to Treat Depression
How My Daughter’s Experience Shaped My Career in Rural Mental Health Care
Understanding and Addressing the Ambiguity in Psychiatry
Navigating Financial Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
My Experience with Diagnostic Overshadowing
Overcoming Cultural Barriers on the Road to Recovery
Bipolar Depression: The Lows We Don’t Talk About Enough
Are You Really Treatment Resistant?
How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma
Neurofeedback: A Complement to Talk Therapy and Medication
Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled
Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder
The Truth About Dissociative Identity Disorder
The Transdiagnostic Dimensional Approach: Another Way of Understanding Mental Illness
How the Mental Health Community Can Support Black Mental Health
Addressing the Increased Risk of Postpartum Depression for Black Women
Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian
Fighting Gender-Based Harassment and Depression
Accepting My Sexuality in Eating Disorder Recovery
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