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is Algorithm speak “Un-aliving” The Conversation Around Suicide?

by | July 20, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Suicide | 0 Comments

Before 2024, you likely did not hear the terms “unalive” or “unaliving” outside of online spaces, like TikTok. That is, until Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture used it in their very-real Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit to describe the passing of Kurt Cobain....
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How to turn Grief Into a More Helpful Experience

by | June 10, 2026 | Articles, Depression, Suicide, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

In life, people will encounter various experiences as they progress. One of these experiences includes experiencing the loss of a loved one. This experience is one everyone will experience at different points in their life, but it doesn’t make the grieving process any...
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Can We Prevent Mental Illness?

by | 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...
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Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

by | 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....
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How to talk to your teenager about suicide prevention

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

by | 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...
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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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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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Holidays, Looking Back before Looking Forward

by | 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...
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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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is Algorithm speak “Un-aliving” The Conversation Around Suicide?

by | July 20, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Suicide | 0 Comments

Before 2024, you likely did not hear the terms “unalive” or “unaliving” outside of online spaces, like TikTok. That is, until Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture used it in their very-real Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit to describe the passing of Kurt Cobain....
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How to turn Grief Into a More Helpful Experience

by | June 10, 2026 | Articles, Depression, Suicide, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

In life, people will encounter various experiences as they progress. One of these experiences includes experiencing the loss of a loved one. This experience is one everyone will experience at different points in their life, but it doesn’t make the grieving process any...
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How to talk to your teenager about suicide prevention

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

by | 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,...
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What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

by | 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...
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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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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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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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Suicide: The Other Pandemic

by | 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,...
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Is it Depression or ADHD? You Could Have Both

by | 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...
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8 Ways to Protect Your Mental Health (When Living with a Mental Health Condition)

by | October 16, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

When I was a youth in the 80s and the 90s, mental health was never a priority. It wasn’t even a topic anyone I knew talked about. Most people, not within the mental health profession, hadn’t heard about bipolar disorder (previously called ‘manic depression’) or...
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The Epidemic of Loneliness – “Parasocial” Relationships

by | September 11, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

The Boston accent: Some call it grating, others call it iconic. While staring into your phone in bed, it comes clanging through the too-bright screen.  “Get ready with me IN KOREA!” Maybe, you’d call it enchanting. Or maybe that’s the addictive nature of social...
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Using AI for Mental Health Advice: Tips for Parents

by | August 20, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

In life, there will be various stages or milestones one will encounter. Parenting is a lifelong commitment to help shape their child as they go through life. There will be great lessons learned navigating parenthood. One lesson to note is how to help children,...
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is Algorithm speak “Un-aliving” The Conversation Around Suicide?

by | July 20, 2026 | Articles, General Mental Health, Suicide | 0 Comments

Before 2024, you likely did not hear the terms “unalive” or “unaliving” outside of online spaces, like TikTok. That is, until Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture used it in their very-real Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit to describe the passing of Kurt Cobain....
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How to turn Grief Into a More Helpful Experience

by | June 10, 2026 | Articles, Depression, Suicide, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

In life, people will encounter various experiences as they progress. One of these experiences includes experiencing the loss of a loved one. This experience is one everyone will experience at different points in their life, but it doesn’t make the grieving process any...
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Can Paid Vacations help Alleviate Depression?

by | May 6, 2026 | Articles, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

For many years, I treated the absence of rest as just part of being a working adult. It wasn’t the size of my to‑do list that finally made me question that belief, but the way my body and mind started reacting to life with no...
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Can We Prevent Mental Illness?

by | 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...
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How Job-Related Stress Impacts Your Mental Health

by | 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...
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The Weight of Winter

by | 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...
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the Correlation Between Poverty and Mental Health

by | 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...
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