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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...

How to Practice Self-Care if You Have PCOS

by Breaking Taboo | October 18, 2023 | Articles | 0 Comments

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Is it Depression or ADHD? You Could Have Both

by Breaking Taboo | Jun 24, 2022 | ADHD, Articles, Depression

Both Depression and Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are very commonin our population. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2021) shows statistics that...

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What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

How to Practice Self-Care if You Have PCOS

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

How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?

What AI Can Bring to Suicide Prevention

Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!

Why is anxiety so paralyzing?

Mental Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community

May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

23 Years of Bipolar 1 and I’m Still Dancing

Is it Depression or ADHD? You Could Have Both

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