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Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression

The important thing is to ask for help and muster up the strength to follow through.

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Developing Strategies and Finding Community: My Experience in Support Groups

Hearing one another’s stories, weighing different approaches, being reminded of self-care and comic relief — all of that is heartening.

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The Power of Insight Building for People with Mental Illness

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My Journey to Accepting My Dissociative Identity Disorder

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How Improving My Mental Health Helped Me Reconnect with My Culture

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Addressing Mental Health Barriers in the AAPI Community

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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Rethinking How We Measure Progress in Mental Health Treatment

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Writing to Spread Awareness about Bipolar Disorder

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Surviving the Bed Shortage in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: A Teenager’s Experience

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Understanding and Assessing Self-Harm: What You Need to Know

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Early Psychosis Intervention

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Transcending the Self-Stigma From my Youth

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The Case for Expanding Peer Support

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My Fight for Recovery

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What No One Told Me About Being in a Psych Hospital

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Losing a Client to Suicide: Navigating the Aftermath as a Therapist

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Certified Peer Specialists: An Untapped Opportunity

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Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System

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How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

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More than a Patient: Using a Recovery-Based Approach

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Engaging Your Community in the Mental Health Conversation

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Black Men and Mental Health: Practical Solutions

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Physical and Mental Illness in Children: Both Need to Be Taken Seriously

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How I Cope with Agoraphobia

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The Power and Value of Insight

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Finding the Right Treatment Fit

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Building Stronger Mental Health Support for Caregivers

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What I Wish I’d Known About Therapy: How to Use CBT and DBT

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Ten Questions to Ask Your Psychotherapist

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Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community

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How Advocates Can Push for A Crises Standard of Care

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The Importance of Finding Acceptance on My Mental Health Journey

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How to Prepare for Your Psychiatric Appointment

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What I Learned from Experiencing Postpartum OCD and Depression

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How My Daughter’s Experience Shaped My Career in Rural Mental Health Care

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Overcoming Regional Barriers: Navigating Rural Mental Health Care

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How School-Based Mental Health Providers Can Help Hispanic/Latinx Students

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My Daughter’s First Episode of Psychosis

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Schizophrenia Does Not Have Me

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Zoomed: My Experience with Online Group Therapy

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Making the Most of a Psych Ward Stay: Strategies from a Psychiatric Nurse

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Q&A with NIMH Director Dr. Josh Gordon

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Shared Decision-making: Getting a Say in Your Care

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Everyone Deserves Adequate Mental Health Care

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Getting Involved with Minority Mental Health

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Why Do We Have the Feeling that We Are Not Enough?

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Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?

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4 Ways Teens Can Access Therapy Without Health Insurance

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Building Bonds Behind Bars with NAMI Peer-to-Peer

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Mental Health Conditions are Legitimate Health Conditions

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Why Some People Harm Themselves

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Understanding Self-Harm

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Reshaping My Relationship with Myself

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How Do I Know if My Therapist is Effective?

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The Problem with Yelling

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Motherhood and Your Mental Health

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The First Step in Getting Mental Health Care

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Learning to Change in Order to Heal

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The Bike Ride: The Story of my Son's Diagnosis

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Telehealth: Transforming Child Mental Health Care

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Outreach and Engagement for Early Psychosis

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Navigating the Mental Health System with Dual Diagnosis

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Disparities Within Minority Mental Health Care

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Seeking Help When You Need It

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Challenging Multicultural Disparities in Mental Health

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Expanding Access to Mental Health Care

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The Stigma Associated with Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Stigma in Our Health Care System

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How Should We Be Treating First-Episode Psychosis?

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Finding the Right Mental Health Professional for You

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New Film Shows the Impact of Community During Recovery

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Compassionate Care in the Emergency Room

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