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Taking Community Suicide Prevention to the Next Level

Building a suicide prevention program is a complex — and likely emotional — challenge.

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His Story Continues

My brother’s story is forever a part of my story, to be shared through me.

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7 Lessons I Learned as a Survivor of a Friend's Suicide

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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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Advancing Equity in Mental Health Care for Black/African Ancestry Communities

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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Honoring and Upholding Bebe Moore Campbell’s Legacy

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Breaking Stigma in California by Bringing Mental Health Education to Youth

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Destigmatizing Mental Health Through Music

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What Being “More Than Enough” Really Means

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Getting Involved with NAMI on My College Campus

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I Wish They’d Seen It Sooner: Growing Up Undiagnosed

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Transcending the Self-Stigma From my Youth

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Reminding My Younger Self That I’m “More Than Enough”

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Separating My Identity From a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

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Thriving on the Bipolar Spectrum: Changing the Narrative with Stories of Lived Experience

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What It’s Like to Live with an OCD Monster

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Black Men and Mental Health: Practical Solutions

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Pursuing Motherhood While Living with Mental Illness

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

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My Battle with Skin Picking

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How I Navigated Gender and Sexuality with Multiple Personalities

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The Power and Value of Insight

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4 Tips for Sharing Your Mental Health Journey on Social Media

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Facing the Aftermath of Abuse: My Ongoing Journey Towards Healing

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How to Cope with Insensitive Comments about Your Mental Health

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How Fandom Conventions Allow Me to Be My True Self

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Supporting Mental Health in The Workplace

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How to Help Yourself and Others with Suicidal Ideation

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The Importance of Prioritizing Emotional Wellness over Academic Achievement

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Addressing Youth Mental Health in NAMI’s Next Book

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Managing Mental Illness and Parenthood

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Building Stronger Mental Health Support for Caregivers

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Breaking Through Family Trauma: Finding Healing and Forgiveness

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My Son Has Schizophrenia. This is My Advice to Caregivers.

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Confronting Mental Health Challenges in Rural America

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Surviving Suicide Loss and Embracing the Power of Remembrance

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Telling Your Partner about Your Mental Health Diagnosis

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What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma

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What I Wish I Had Known About Borderline Personality Disorder

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Surviving Motherhood and Mental Health: What I Wish I Knew When Life Went Off-Script

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

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What I Wish I’d Known: The Art of Disclosing

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What I Wish I’d Known About Medication: Debunking Myths About Antipsychotics

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What I Wish I Had Known About Stigma: I Don’t Want to be “Normal”

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Ageism, Mental Health and Suicide Risk in Older Men

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Changing The Conversation About Suicide

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The State of Suicide Today - And Ways to Prevent It

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Understanding Bipolar Disorder

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I’ve Taken an Anti-Psychotic Medication and I’m Not Ashamed

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Barriers to Mental Health: The Middle Eastern Experience

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My Experience as a Transgender Physician with Mental Illness

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Coming to Terms with Mental Illness and My Identity

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Five Tips to Cope with Double Discrimination 

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Managing Depression as an Asian American

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My Journey to Reduce the Stigma Around Male Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

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The “Model Minority” Stereotype Prevents AAPI From Seeking Mental Health Care

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Early Intervention Could Have Changed My Life

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Battling Mental Health Symptoms and the Consequences of Stigma

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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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Mental Illness Is Not a Joke: Fighting Stigma in Pop Culture

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Unpacking Narcissism and Stigma

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DID Stories Are Riddled with Stigma: I Want to Tell a More Accurate One

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Developing Effective Anti-Stigma Interventions

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Inpatient Psych Care: What Movies Get Wrong and Why It Matters

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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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Fighting Stigma with Education

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Improving the Hiring Process for People with Mental Illness

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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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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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How the “Laziness Myth” Affects Those with Mental Illness

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Finding Emotional Well-Being as an Indigenous Woman in America

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How to Describe Borderline Personality Disorder to Those Who Don’t Understand

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Why Labels Can Be Harmful When You Have Mental Illness

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My Son’s Breakup Was About My Mental Illness

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How I Dealt with Mental Health Discrimination in the Church

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My Experience with Diagnostic Overshadowing

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Overcoming Stigma: Helping People Accept Their Mental Illness Diagnoses

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How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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How the Mental Health Community Can Support Black Mental Health

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Accepting My Sexuality in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Stereotypes and Seeking Care in a Racialized America

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Why We Need Better Representation of Borderline Personality Disorder

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How Social Media Is Changing the Way We Think About Mental Illness

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The Not So Pretty Version of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Six Underrated Depictions of PTSD in Movies and TV

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From Villain to Hero: Reimagining the Role of Mental Health in Pop Culture

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The Stigmatizing Word Hidden in Mental Health Conversations

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Finding Myself in the Main Character of “Prozac Nation”

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Misrepresented Diagnosis

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The Missing Piece of Disney’s “Soul”

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Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language

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Myths and Facts of Bipolar Disorder

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The Importance of Explaining Our Lived Experience

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Lived Experience Matters: Coming Out and Sharing

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The Pain of Not Seeking Help for My PTSD

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