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

by | 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...
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How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?

by | 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...
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What AI Can Bring to Suicide Prevention

by | 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...
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Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!

by | 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...
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Why is anxiety so paralyzing?

by | 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...
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Mental Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community

by | 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,...
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May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

by | 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...
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23 Years of Bipolar 1 and I’m Still Dancing

by | 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...
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Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression

by | 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...
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god does not love beyonce and me equally

by | 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.          ...
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How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?

by | 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...
Read More

Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!

by | 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...
Read More

Why is anxiety so paralyzing?

by | 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...
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Mental Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community

by | 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,...
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May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

by | 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...
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Toxic Masculinity: Causing depression in men

by | 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...
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4 Lesser Known (But Effective) Psychotherapies For Anxiety

by | 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...
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“Self Love” in the East VS west

by | January 16, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

“Self Love” has become one of the catchiest concepts being thrown around in Western society, a terminology seemingly present now everywhere we look; on billboards, all across our social media feeds, in meditation practices and therapy practices. It is now a popular...
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Somatization and Asking for Help: How Asian Populations Respond to Psychological Stress

by | August 24, 2022 | Articles, General Mental Health, Taboo & Breaking It | 0 Comments

The intricate mechanisms of the body alone, are quite remarkable; but once we add the functionalities of the mind to the mix, the body often succumbs to the mind’s agency in decision- making, be it conscious or sub-conscious. Although quite awesome and intricate to...
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Getting Comfortable Outside of Your Comfort Zone

by | August 12, 2022 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

If you struggle with anxiety, depression, or self-doubt, you’ve likely struggled with stepping outside of your comfort zone. It makes sense - comfort zones lack variability - they are familiar, they are controllable, they are, well, comfortable. While we all deserve...
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Mental Illness: The Stigma on Psychiatric Inpatient Suicide

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

by | 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...
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Religious OCD : Religion, Obsessions and Perfectionism

by | 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...
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Red Flags in a Therapist

by | April 8, 2021 | Articles, Featured, General Mental Health, Psychology/ Therapy | 0 Comments

It has always been my belief that the world would be a better place if everyone got therapy, somewhat regularly, including therapists. Whether your goal is to resolve past trauma, change behavior, get rid of certain thoughts, cope with emotion or with a mental...
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