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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
What My Brothers Taught Me About the Importance of Early Intervention
Stereotypes and Seeking Care in a Racialized America
How To Navigate the Overwhelming Volume of Mental Health Apps
My Daughter’s First Episode of Psychosis
Warning Signs of Mental Illness in Children
Myths and Facts of Bipolar Disorder
Five Warning Signs of Mental Illness that People Miss
A Message for Anyone with a Treatment-Resistant Mental Illness
Let My Journey with BPD Be Your Guide (Not Your Blueprint)
Schizophrenia Does Not Have Me
How Public Officials Can Protect the Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness
Criminal Justice Involvement of People with Serious Mental Illness
What Is Mental Health Probation?
The Most Common Symptom That Is Rarely Asked About
Recovery Begins with a Decision
A New Tool to Help Plan for Crises
Why I Embrace 12-Step Principles as a Therapist
The Waiting Room
Talking to Your Kids About Psychiatric Medications
Quitting Tobacco with A Mental Illness: What You Need to Know
5 Common Myths About Suicide Debunked
My Spiral out of Reality
A New Treatment Option for Major Depressive Disorder
Making the Most of a Psych Ward Stay: Strategies from a Psychiatric Nurse
From Patient to Survivor
How Early Intervention Impacted My Life
My Long Journey to Getting My Son Help
7 Myths About Pediatric Depression
Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder
Why Black Churches Need to Do Better with Mental Health Issues
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