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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 Breaking Taboo | 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 Breaking Taboo | 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...

Mindful Eating for Mental Health, Weight
Management, and More

by Breaking Taboo | March 13, 2023 | Articles | 0 Comments

Feelings of stress can lead us to counterproductive activities that may do more bad than good in the long term. One such activity is stress eating. In a study on stress and eating behaviors published in Health Psychology Review, researchers found that stress is...

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...

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...

“Self Love” in the East VS west

by Breaking Taboo | 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...

Being Okay with Being Bipolar

by Crystal Lancaster | December 9, 2022 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

I don’t know if I will ever be the person I was before Bipolar 1 Disorder took control of my life.But maybe that’s okay. We, as humans, are always evolving, always changing. Sometimes forthe better. Other times, for the worse. It is hard to accept you are subjected to...

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...

Bipolar 1 Vs Bipolar 2, What’s the Difference?

by Breaking Taboo | May 23, 2022 | Articles, Bipolar | 0 Comments

Bipolar disorder is a severe chronic mental illness that affects millions of Americans today. It is a complex disease with various symptoms that can cause a multitude of issues for those that live with it. What makes bipolar disorder even more complicated is the fact...

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...

4 Lesser Known (But Effective) Psychotherapies For Anxiety

by Breaking Taboo | March 7, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles | 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...

How to Cope with Anxiety During Covid-19

by Breaking Taboo | April 8, 2020 | Anxiety, Covid-19 | 0 Comments

We are all living in a critical time right now. Whether we are one of the hundreds of thousands affected with COVID-19, a loved one of someone affected, a health professional at the front lines, or like the majority, at home or working an essential job, doing the most...

How Sleep Deprivation Can Increase Your Anxiety

by bt_admin | March 7, 2019 | Anxiety, Articles | 0 Comments

Anxiety is a pervasive problem that can be difficult to diagnose and treat. People try everything from pharmaceutical remedies to therapy, natural remedies, supplements, meditation, and more. Some find relief from their anxiety, but others continue to struggle, no...

The Psychology of Addiction

by bt_admin | February 13, 2019 | Addiction, Articles | 0 Comments

Addiction is described as a condition in which a person engages in the use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences. An addiction can...

Everything Can Be Addictive: Part 1

by bt_admin | September 23, 2018 | Addiction, Articles | 0 Comments

Blog Title: “Addicted” Means Everything After the death of my older brother who died from overdose to guaifenesin, also known as Mucinex, I was shocked and appalled to see how many people were uneducated as to what an addiction is, including the authorities and...

Rehab, Prison, or Death: Why Rehab Doesn’t Always Work

by bt_admin | August 9, 2018 | Addiction, Articles | 0 Comments

When you think of rehab, you probably think of those lavish centers advertised on day-time television or the late and great Amy Winehouse’s single Rehab, where she testifies she’ll never go back and there’s nothing she has to gain from sitting in therapy for 10 weeks....

Which is Better? Luxury Sober Living vs Government Funded Homes

by bt_admin | August 8, 2018 | Addiction, Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Sober living homes are used for people who want to maintain abstinence from alcohol and drugs. It can be difficult to return to a home environment that is not drug and alcohol free. Sober livings create a supportive place for recovering addicts to live during their...

What is a Panic Attack?

by bt_admin | July 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Articles | 1 Comment

What is a panic attack? How long do they last? Are they scary? A panic attack is psychological and is an overreaction of your adrenal system. A panic attack can happen within a moment’s notice. They occur because there is a sense of danger and your mind and body start...

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