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Can We Prevent Mental Illness?

by Breaking Taboo | April 2, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Other mental illness, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

We usually talk about mental health after someone is already struggling. After the panic attacks start. After the depression gets heavy. After things fall apart. But what if we asked the question earlier? Mental illness is common, and many conditions begin in the...

Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

by Breaking Taboo | February 26, 2026 | Articles, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Trigger warning: Mentions of dating violence/abuse. When one typically thinks of February, they go straight towards Valentine’s Day or Black History Month. Both events are important aspects of this specific month, offering room for remembrance and appreciation....

How to talk to your teenager about suicide prevention

by Breaking Taboo | September 23, 2025 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

Before reading this article, I would like to provide a trigger warning when discussing the topic of suicide. The month of September is known to be a time in the year marking the end of summer to transition to the beginning of autumn. It’s a month of change...

Scrolling Into Insecurity- Social Media’s effects on Eating Disorders

by Breaking Taboo | July 3, 2025 | General Mental Health, Other mental illness | 0 Comments

Up to 95% of adolescents, ages 13-17 years old, report using a social media platform, with more than a third saying that they use social media almost constantly [1]. Social media has become a large part of our lives, and the way it impacts the youth has become a huge...

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,...

How to talk to your teenager about suicide prevention

by Breaking Taboo | September 23, 2025 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

“Bye Bye”: Back-to-School Anxiety & How Parents Can Intervene

by Breaking Taboo | August 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

As August rolls around each year, it signifies the beginning of a new school year, promising a fresh start to learn and grow with peers. A new school year offers room to make new memories, new friendships, and an opportunity to pursue academic goals. Despite this,...

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

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...

Can We Prevent Mental Illness?

by Breaking Taboo | April 2, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Other mental illness, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

How Job-Related Stress Impacts Your Mental Health

by Breaking Taboo | March 12, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

For a long time, I treated work stress as just part of being an adult, meeting deadlines, dealing with difficult coworkers, and enduring long days. Many others around me seemed just as tired and overwhelmed, so I assumed that was simply the way things are supposed to...

The Weight of Winter

by Crystal Lancaster | February 7, 2026 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

2.10.24 Birds must have flown south for the winter. Or wherever the *** it is birds go when thewind and the cold ransack the homes they had nested within the now barren branches. The trees look broken—almost. I didn’t even notice their orange and yellow leaves...

the Correlation Between Poverty and Mental Health

by Breaking Taboo | January 16, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

With January now underway, many view it as a fresh start or a period of change. It’s a month when one begins the process of creating new resolutions or vision boards to serve as a direction for the new year. This focus on change fails to take into consideration how...

the Stigma of Mental Health still Fills the Halls of High School

by Breaking Taboo | September 3, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

When some think of high school, they may think of it as one of the happiest times of their lives. High school can be a period of personal growth where one develops self-identity, gains independence, makes lasting friendships, etc. This period in life can shape one’s...

“Bye Bye”: Back-to-School Anxiety & How Parents Can Intervene

by Breaking Taboo | August 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

A Parent’s Guide to Impostor Syndrome

by Breaking Taboo | July 8, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

As a parent, there is a great deal of responsibility placed on one to ensure they are the ideal role model for their children to look up to. One has to be mindful of what morals or values they want to instill into their children to emulate. This can be true when...

Scrolling Into Insecurity- Social Media’s effects on Eating Disorders

by Breaking Taboo | July 3, 2025 | General Mental Health, Other mental illness | 0 Comments

My Synesthesia Causes Me to Hear Colors and Taste Sounds

by Breaking Taboo | June 17, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

We all know what our senses are and how we use them every day, but what if you could hear colors and taste sounds? This connection between senses is called Synesthesia, and some people have this complex condition inside their minds. Synesthesia is a mental condition...

Media’s Romanticization of Mental Health Conditions

by siteadmin | May 17, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

In contemporary culture, there are many subgenres and niches available for consumption online. Information now being so readily available has produced a new wave of awareness for young people. Concepts that were once reserved for strictly academic contexts now run...