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How Can We Have a More Empathic View of Psychosis?
Answer: Learn from those who experience it. Schizophrenia and related disorders are the most stigmatized by the public, the media, and mental health…
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Is Every Post About Mental Health on Social Media Misleading and Damaging?
It’s fair to say that young people—whose brains haven’t fully formed—are most at risk of being misled on social media. Gen Z’s use TikTok the way the…
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What Is Recovery from Mental Illness?
Recovery centers on three basic principles: improving health and wellness, living a self-directed life, and striving to reach our full potential.
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What Do the Girl Scouts Have to Do With Our Mental Health?
Answer: Not much, but they have money and money has a lot to do with our mental health, the two are entwined on many levels. Then there’s the cyclical…
What’s Really Happening with the Mental Health Crisis Among Adolescents? Part 2
Even though mental health diagnoses can be useful, a teen can build their identity around their diagnosis, leading to a rejection of recovery and a…
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What’s Really Happening with the Mental Health Crisis Among Adolescents? Part 1
Answer: It’s troubling but perhaps not for the reasons you think... Teens are using Social media platforms like Tiktok to self-diagnose and talk about…
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Are Emotional Support Animals Legit?
Answer: In some ways. The use of animals to support people with physical disabilities has a long history, perhaps dating back to the first century. More…
What’s the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Mental Health?
Answer: I’m not sure, but here’s what it was for me I sit here at my desk with my cat at my feet. It’s sunny outside. For two months, Chicago has had…
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Dispatch: Are Cat Shows Cruel?
(Every once in a while—because that’s about as often as I leave my apartment to do something new—I’ll bring you a dispatch reporting on an experience…
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What Is the Recovery Movement?
Answer: The future of mental health If only I’d known about the long history of recovery from mental illness, the recovery movement, and the remarkable…
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Does Taking a Course on Death Quell Anxiety?
Answer: You’d have to take the course to find out. As a professor and someone who spent a large portion of her life going to school, I decide that the…
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Does Mental Health Awareness Work?
Answer: Not as much as it could. Today, I’m directing you to my op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. Read it below or here. What is recovery from mental…
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