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From Gang Member to Mental Health Advocate

I grew up in an inner-city community in San Diego, California, called “Southeast.” This area has always been known for crime, drugs and — m...

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How EMDR Healed My Trauma

It is through my own experience with loud sound as the most healing salve I have ever known that I recognize how deeply many of us want to feel better.

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Finding Treatment and Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Depression

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The Reality of “High Functioning” Depression

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Power of Connection: Co-facilitating a NAMI Support Group

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Developing Strategies and Finding Community: My Experience in Support Groups

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Neuroplasticity III: Trusting Myself after Psychosis & Jail

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Parenting after Receiving a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

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My Journey to Accepting My Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Hearing Voices and Turning Them Off Through Meditation

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Celebrating My Daughter’s Life and Schizophrenia Recovery

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Becoming Who I was Before Schizophrenia — Or Should I?

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A Cultural Experience of Recovery

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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From Professional Athlete to Mental Health Advocate

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Navigating Early Recovery from Schizophrenia

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Discovering Self-Love and Acceptance after Tragedy and Mental Illness

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Transcending the Self-Stigma From my Youth

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My Fight for Recovery

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Separating My Identity From a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

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What I’ve Learned on My Mental Health Journey

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What It’s Like to Live with an OCD Monster

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It’s Not the Hormones: Reflections on a Teenage Girl’s Traumatic 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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Physical and Mental Illness in Children: Both Need to Be Taken Seriously

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Children Should Not Have to Be Resilient

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Embracing Physical Touch and Meditation for Emotional Well-Being

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How I Cope with Agoraphobia

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My Battle with Skin Picking

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The Power and Value of Insight

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My Schizophrenia Checklist

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Facing the Aftermath of Abuse: My Ongoing Journey Towards Healing

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How Faith, Family and a Comedy Career Helped My Recovery

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Why I’m Not Making Any New Year’s Resolutions

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Hanging On the Edge: Rock Climbing and the Therapeutic Relationship

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How I Stay Above Water

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How The Pandemic Helped Me Build a Stronger Self

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Three Questions to Ask a Prospective Therapist

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How Fandom Conventions Allow Me to Be My True Self

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My Journey into Postpartum Bipolar and Back Again

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Living with Both DID and Schizophrenia

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How We Can Improve our Approach to Treating Psychosis

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How to Help Yourself and Others with Suicidal Ideation

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Finding Connection: Helping Child Sexual Abuse Survivors in Marginalized Communities

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Emotional Recovery from Psychosis: Trusting and Believing in Yourself Again

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Thoughts on The Pandemic, Trust Issues and Trauma Survivors

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Expressive Arts Therapy: A Sensory Approach to Trauma Healing

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Managing Mental Illness and Parenthood

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Breaking Through Family Trauma: Finding Healing and Forgiveness

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Navigating Secondary PTSD: Surviving the War That Came Home

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What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma

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What I Want my Neighbors to Know About My Mental Illness

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What I Wish I Had Known: We Don’t Have to Wait for a Crisis

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5 Truths I Discovered on My Road to Recovery

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Lessons Learned: Embracing Treatment and Finding Acceptance

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What I Wish I Had Known on My 20-Year Mental Health Journey

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Observing 27 Years with OCD

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What I Wish I'd Known About Caregiving: 7 Tips To Navigate Mental Health Challenges in Your Family

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How Law Enforcement Perpetuated My Son’s Trauma During a Mental Health Crisis

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The Power of Peers: Mutual Inspiration

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Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts

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From Hopelessness to Empowerment: My Ingredients to Recovery

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Understanding and Coping with My Delusions

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Walking on a Tight Rope: Coping with Depression

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Enduring a Schizophrenia Relapse

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My Battle with Bipolar Disorder

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Surviving to Thriving: Coping with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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What to Expect During an Inpatient Stay

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Grieving the Life I Thought I’d Live

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Approaching Mental Health Care with a Trauma-Informed Perspective

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Managing Depression as an Asian American

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I Am Allowed: Healing My Childhood Trauma and Accepting My Feelings

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The Story of an Adolescence, Interrupted

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Three Ways Traumatic Stress Presents and How to Manage It

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Knowing and Managing My Triggers

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Understanding The Early Warning Signs of Mental Illness

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Warning Signs and Possible Causes of a Bipolar Episode

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Life with High-Functioning Depression: Functional Does Not Always Mean Healthy

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Early Intervention Could Have Changed My Life

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The Consequences of Stigma Surrounding Schizophrenia

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No Illness, Mental or Physical, is Shameful

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Developing Effective Anti-Stigma Interventions

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Fighting Internalized Stigma and Changing My Attitude

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Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community

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Three Lessons I Learned from a Decade in Therapy

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Exploring My Own Healing as an Expressive Arts Therapist

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What Mental Health Care Can Learn from Dental Health Care Strategies

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Building a Recovery-Oriented System of Care

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How Time Line Therapy Has Helped Me

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Every First Responder Deserves Solace

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Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About

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Derealization: The Symptom That Makes the World Feel Unreal

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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders

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Understanding and Managing Psychosis

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Navigating My Relationship and Hypergraphia

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Boredom as a Symptom

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Recognizing the Lesser-Known Symptoms of Depression

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When Trauma Is Triggered at Work

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How Volunteering Improves Mental Health

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How Music Shaped My Mental Health Journey

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How Walking Has Helped Me with My PTSD Recovery

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