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What AI Can Bring to Suicide Prevention

by Kara Crew | August 21, 2023 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

Our society has become enthralled with Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is becoming an intrinsicphrase in our zeitgeist. In the coming years, AI will embed itself into various professional fields. Although legal and policy measures may temper its impact, it is...

May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

by Aaron Weiner | May 24, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Seasonal | 0 Comments

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Which means that there is a lot of extra focus on mental health, mental illness, and breaking the stigma surrounding these two very important topics. We use that word a lot- “awareness”, but so many people don’t fully understand...

Holidays, Looking Back before Looking Forward

by Breaking Taboo | February 8, 2023 | Articles, Seasonal | 0 Comments

With the holidays now at an end and the slow monotony of daily routine creeping back, we may all harbor bittersweet memories of what it felt like to finally have a break and be around loved ones. Bittersweet as the break may have acted both as a reunification with...

Mental Illness: The Stigma on Psychiatric Inpatient Suicide

by Micah Flores | October 24, 2022 | Articles, Other mental illness | 0 Comments

Many inpatients at psychiatric hospitals struggle with suicide ideation and even face the risk oftaking their own lives after discharge. According to Deisenhammer et. al, inpatient suicide is the“suicide of a patient while hospitalized and also includes self-inflicted...

How To talk about mental health: why accessibility matters and how breaking taboo Is Solving The Issue

by Gabe Sweeney | September 23, 2022 | Articles, Other mental illness | 0 Comments

Introduction At the root of any stigma is ignorance. As such, information is often-times all that stands between the ways we actually treat others, and the ways we should treat others. Sometimes however, even more important than the information itself, is the ways we...

Suicide: The Other Pandemic

by Crystal Lancaster | September 22, 2022 | Articles, Depression, Seasonal, Suicide | 0 Comments

For the majority of us, September marks the start of Autumn. A long-awaited season bringing brisk air, warm apple cider, and the beautiful turning of leaves. But we mustn’t forget. It is also a month dedicated to the cause of suicide awareness and prevention, hence,...

Too Close to Home: Filipino Suicide and Depression

by Breaking Taboo | May 3, 2022 | Articles, Depression, Suicide | 0 Comments

Many Asian Americans, especially Filipino Americans, struggle with mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and suicide. In fact, young Filipina women experience greater suicide ideation (45.6%) compared to other minorities (Javier et. al 2018). However, despite...

Religious OCD : Religion, Obsessions and Perfectionism

by Breaking Taboo | April 26, 2022 | Articles, OCD | 0 Comments

Scrupulosity, informally known as religious OCD, is a unique representation of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that affects individuals from various religious communities. By definition, it is a variation of OCD where individuals are plagued with intrusive...

Decreased Suicide Rate During COVID-19: A Light at the End of the Tunnel

by Breaking Taboo | February 1, 2022 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

As of October 2021, there are 241 million COVID-19 cases worldwide with 4.91 million COVID-related deaths (Source: Google real-time data). In some countries, people have been required to stay at home for months on end, devoid of any kind of human interactions. Under...

A Soldier’s Trauma: Veteran Suicide in the United States

by Micah Flores | December 21, 2021 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

Suicide, or the act of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally, has become increasingly more prevalent, especially in the United States (U.S). Every year, many U.S. war veterans die by suicide in comparison to the general civilian public. It’s interesting...

What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Mood swings during stressful times are natural, but those living with a mood disorder like bipolar (BP) or personality disorder like borderline (BPD) have extreme, erratic, and sometimes irrational changes in their mental state. A lot of symptoms overlap, but these...

What AI Can Bring to Suicide Prevention

by Kara Crew | August 21, 2023 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

Why is anxiety so paralyzing?

by Melinda Larson | July 21, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles | 0 Comments

“Why is anxiety so paralyzing?” If there is such a thing as various degrees of literal, I would say there should be a spectrum to define how deeply a life has been interrupted, paused, and frozen still. In my experience, it can be so physically paralyzing you would...

4 Lesser Known (But Effective) Psychotherapies For Anxiety

by Breaking Taboo | March 7, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles | 0 Comments

What if I told you, anxiety was an epidemic. In fact, according to NAMI, “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concern in the United States. Over 40 million adults in the U.S. (19.1%) have an anxiety disorder.” Most people are treated with Cognitive...

Suicide: The Other Pandemic

by Crystal Lancaster | September 22, 2022 | Articles, Depression, Seasonal, Suicide | 0 Comments

Is it Depression or ADHD? You Could Have Both

by Breaking Taboo | June 24, 2022 | ADHD, Articles, Depression | 0 Comments

Both Depression and Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are very commonin our population. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2021) shows statistics that theprevalence of the current adult population in the United States with ADHD is 4.4%; for...

3 Powerful Ways To Stop Anxiety Now

by Breaking Taboo | May 18, 2022 | Anxiety, Articles | 0 Comments

Let’s Get Started. Anxiety affects everyone on planet Earth, everywhere from San Jose, California to San Jose, Costa Rica. It’s a part of being alive. It’s part of the human experience. But, it doesn't have to be. At least, not to the extent it plagues most...

Too Close to Home: Filipino Suicide and Depression

by Breaking Taboo | May 3, 2022 | Articles, Depression, Suicide | 0 Comments

Decreased Suicide Rate During COVID-19: A Light at the End of the Tunnel

by Breaking Taboo | February 1, 2022 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

A Soldier’s Trauma: Veteran Suicide in the United States

by Micah Flores | December 21, 2021 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

A Psychotic Mind: My History of Schizophrenia, Self-Harm, and Suicide Attempts

by Breaking Taboo | September 20, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

*Trigger warning: Self-harm and suicide attempts As a child, I remember being happy, I remember feeling safe, but after my parent's divorce, I remember feeling so much anguish and pain. For me, self-injury was activated by my parent’s divorce. I was 11 years old when...

How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?

by Mona Saii | September 1, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

It seems evident that the depth that individuals feel and emotionally respond toward stimuli ebbs and flows. Consider, for example, how a person experiences deep elation and joy when listening to their favorite song yet later experiences a dulled affective response...

Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!

by Serena Sun | August 21, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Mental Health IS health. I’ve always said that, because it’s the truth. We can’t separate the two. Just like physical health IS health, mental health is health. I could actually argue that mental health might be even more so, since every single function in our body...

Mental Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community

by Anna Mikel | June 22, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Among the many health disparities, a glaring one is the higher rate of mental health disorders in people who identify as part of the LGBTQI+ community. Widespread social and political discrimination have caused disproportionately high rates of poverty, homelessness,...

May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

by Aaron Weiner | May 24, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Seasonal | 0 Comments

23 Years of Bipolar 1 and I’m Still Dancing

by Crystal Lancaster | May 12, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

No. I wasn’t always OK with being bipolar. What’s more, the shame of living with such a disease, propelled to do ridiculous actions that your mania compels you to do, the guilt of feeling depressed when that logical side of your tore-up brain knows there is so much...

Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression

by Breaking Taboo | May 5, 2023 | Articles, Depression | 0 Comments

Depression is a common and often debilitating mood disorder that affects millions. It is a significant global public health problem, and in the United States, 8.4% of adults and 17% of adolescents had at least one major depressive episode in 2020, with many of these...

god does not love beyonce and me equally

by Breaking Taboo | April 27, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

At the age of 26, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy, and Ken Kesy published One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At 27, I, Kellie Wood, cannot figure out the child safety lock on my bottle of CVS brand mouthwash. ...

Toxic Masculinity: Causing depression in men

by Serena Sun | April 14, 2023 | Articles, Depression, General Mental Health, Taboo & Breaking It, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

“Man up!” “Boys don’t cry!” “Don’t be such a girl!” Sound familiar? These are just a few of the toxically masculine insults that are proliferating within our current culture and society. Men experience these types of sentiments daily. What’s worse, is so...

What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

by Breaking Taboo | Nov 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health

How to Practice Self-Care if You Have PCOS

by Breaking Taboo | Oct 18, 2023 | Articles

It's all too easy to feel alone and helpless when living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). This condition, which affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age, disrupts your hormone and metabolism systems, and the symptoms include increasing your amount of body hair,...