How Faith, Family and a Comedy Career Helped My Recovery
I have found a healthy balance of my support systems: faith, therapeutic intervention, family and humor.
I have found a healthy balance of my support systems: faith, therapeutic intervention, family and humor.
How can we be proactive in evaluating whether a therapist or approach is the right fit?
As I continue to heal, I know that one day, my story will be more than being a survivor.
I wanted to learn as much as I could about this condition and its manifestations. So, I began to make a checklist of my symptoms.
We must find opportunities to lean into conversations about mental health, no matter how uncomfortable those conversations may be.
You can harness the power of shortform video to explain your own experience, challenge the stigma surrounding mental illness and shed light on the realities of the mental health care system.
Insight is an ability that many of us take for granted before losing it.
Our ideas about the morality of cleanliness can shape how we view mental illness.
I greatly improved my ‘helping skills,’ and made the choice to find recovery of my own.
Alters can have their own unique identities with different genders, goals, beliefs and roles.
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