Search results for: “suicide”
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Bipolar Disorder and Neurocounseling
My experience with psychotherapy supports the findings that we can “rewire our brains.” In cognitive therapy, I learned to stop negative thoughts and suicidal ideation, rewrite those thoughts and replace them with more accurate ones. In therapy I’ve learned to reframe my life experiences as meaningful – as preparing me to be a better mother, wife, and daughter,…
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Bipolar Disorder Infographic
Infographic by TopCounselingSchools.org Sources HealthResearchFunding.org | 40 Profound Bipolar Disorder Suicide Statistics Statistic Brain Research Institute | Bipolar Disorder Statistics NIMH NIH | Bipolar Disorder Mayo Clinic | Bipolar Disorder
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A Room of My Own
My friend Dyane Harwood’s recent post A Stigma of One’s Own got me thinking. Dyane takes issue with the non-profit foundation A Room of Her Own (AROHO) for describing Virginia Woolf’s suicide as “took her own life” and for not mentioning her mental illness. I support Dyane for challenging them to rework Woolf’s bio. At the same time, I wonder… Is…
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Trigger Warning Revisited
I first wrote this post June 2014 and am sharing it again, for the theme is still timely. Monday afternoon while shopping at Party City for some sugary treats for my son, in front of me in line stood a teenaged girl with wrists covered in fake blood depicting gory razor slash wounds. She told…
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Multicultural Mental Health Facts
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Culture, race, gender, ethnicity, age and sexual orientation are all factors that can influence mental health. Today we highlight recent information about our diverse communities and what Californians can do to help. A recent UCLA study on low-income African-American and Latino U.S. residents shows that these communities are disproportionately…
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Resources for Youth and Young Adults
Strength of Us Reach Out Here OK2TALK Half of Us Teens Health Each Mind Matters Teen Line Online Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Marya Hornbacher’s Research about Mental lllness
What do you know about mental illness? By Gabby Abbott | Apr. 15, 2015 | 285 Submissions Author Marya Hornbacher is working on a book about mental illness. Her book will profile the lives of people who have a mental illness or who work in the field, and she’s trying to develop a deeper understanding…
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Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion
At the beginning of this week, Terezin – a woman who had been horrifically abused by a mother diagnosed with manic depressive psychosis – read my poem Suicide Infanticide and was understandably enraged. My poem described a fleeting and deeply disturbing psychotic thought I had postpartum. Her comment deeply troubled me and made me question my adequacy as a mother.…