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My Experience as a Transgender Physician with Mental Illness

Since coming out and transitioning, I have faced unexpected discrimination within the health care system, even as a physician myself.

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Approaching Mental Health Care with a Trauma-Informed Perspective

Many instances of anxiety and depression are actually symptoms of buried core emotions and unmet core needs.

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Coming to Terms with Mental Illness and My Identity

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Mobile Crisis Teams: Providing an Alternative to Law Enforcement for Mental Health Crises

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Five Tips to Cope with Double Discrimination 

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Managing Depression as an Asian American

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Music Therapy: More Than Just Entertainment

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I Am Allowed: Healing My Childhood Trauma and Accepting My Feelings

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Growing Up with Panic Attacks

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How Parents Can Support their College Students’ Mental Health

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My Journey to Reduce the Stigma Around Male Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

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To Improve Student Mental Health, We Need More Than Crisis Response

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Advancing The Youth Mental Health Conversation Through Novels

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5 Tips to Help Young Children Understand Anger

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How I Talk About Mental Health with My Kids

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

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The Story of an Adolescence, Interrupted

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Recognizing My Daughter’s (and My Own) Anxiety Warning Signs

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Bold Action Will Change the Mental Health Conversation

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Three Ways Traumatic Stress Presents and How to Manage It

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Mental Health is Health: Giving Context to Mental Illness

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Knowing and Managing My Triggers

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