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Inpatient Psych Care: What Movies Get Wrong and Why It Matters

We can start to challenge the terrorizing depictions on our screens.

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Fighting Internalized Stigma and Changing My Attitude

Throwing around careless language, I quickly realized, did not make me feel better.

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Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community

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Fighting Stigma with Education

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Improving the Hiring Process for People with Mental Illness

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Every First Responder Deserves Solace

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Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About

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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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How the “Laziness Myth” Affects Those with Mental Illness

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Finding Emotional Well-Being as an Indigenous Woman in America

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How to Describe Borderline Personality Disorder to Those Who Don’t Understand

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Why Labels Can Be Harmful When You Have Mental Illness

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My Son’s Breakup Was About My Mental Illness

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How I Dealt with Mental Health Discrimination in the Church

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My Experience with Diagnostic Overshadowing

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Overcoming Stigma: Helping People Accept Their Mental Illness Diagnoses

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How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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How the Mental Health Community Can Support Black Mental Health

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Accepting My Sexuality in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Stereotypes and Seeking Care in a Racialized America

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