This method can be effective for a wide audience, primarily because it offers an alternative to immediately identifying and verbalizing emotional pain.
Investments must be made to support caregivers’ well-being.
Expressive Arts Therapy: A Sensory Approach to Trauma Healing
Building Stronger Mental Health Support for Caregivers
What I Wish I Had Known About Borderline Personality Disorder
5 Truths I Discovered on My Road to Recovery
Lessons Learned: Embracing Treatment and Finding Acceptance
What I Wish I’d Known About Therapy: How to Use CBT and DBT
Ten Questions to Ask Your Psychotherapist
Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community
Fighting Stigma with Education
Exploring My Own Healing as an Expressive Arts Therapist
What Mental Health Care Can Learn from Dental Health Care Strategies
Building a Recovery-Oriented System of Care
How Time Line Therapy Has Helped Me
How Advocates Can Push for A Crises Standard of Care
Addressing the Lack of Diversity in the Mental Health Field
Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About
Understanding and Managing Psychosis
Boredom as a Symptom
Recent Study Calls for Reevaluating Antidepressant Warnings
The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Fishing
How Music Shaped My Mental Health Journey
Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing
The Importance of Finding Acceptance on My Mental Health Journey
Understanding Mental Illness Triggers
Recent Changes May Affect Access to an Important Medication
How I Developed a Healthy Relationship with Exercise to Help My Mental Health
Finding Reality Through Cartooning
How to Prepare for Your Psychiatric Appointment
What I Learned from Experiencing Postpartum OCD and Depression
Weaving the Threads of Healing Through Writing
Medications Are Not the Only Way to Treat Depression
How My Daughter’s Experience Shaped My Career in Rural Mental Health Care
Understanding and Addressing the Ambiguity in Psychiatry
Overcoming Inadequate Crisis Response: Why 988 is an Opportunity
Overcoming Regional Barriers: Navigating Rural Mental Health Care
Exploring the Connection Between Trauma Healing and Physical Health
How Mindfulness Helped Me Cope with My Husband’s Suicide
Bipolar Depression: The Lows We Don’t Talk About Enough
Are You Really Treatment Resistant?
Finding My Way Back from Suicidal Thoughts
7 Behaviors for Improving Mental Health
How I Founded The Company I Needed During My Journey with OCD
Neurofeedback: A Complement to Talk Therapy and Medication
Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder
I Am in Charge of My Treatment Plan
Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian
How Lived Experience and Identity Shape Mental Health Counseling
What My Brothers Taught Me About the Importance of Early Intervention
How School-Based Mental Health Providers Can Help Hispanic/Latinx Students
Stereotypes and Seeking Care in a Racialized America
How To Navigate the Overwhelming Volume of Mental Health Apps
Finding Myself in the Main Character of “Prozac Nation”
Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
Building an Early Warning Sign System
Understanding Schizophrenia
My Daughter’s First Episode of Psychosis
A Message for Anyone with a Treatment-Resistant Mental Illness
Let My Journey with BPD Be Your Guide (Not Your Blueprint)
How Biking Helped My PTSD
Schizophrenia Does Not Have Me
Zoomed: My Experience with Online Group Therapy
Recovery Begins with a Decision
Grounding Schizophrenia Through Tai Chi
How I Manage the Side Effects of Antipsychotics
Talking to Your Kids About Psychiatric Medications
Responding to Crisis: The Crisis Living Room
The Importance of Accepting Help
A New Treatment Option for Major Depressive Disorder
Making the Most of a Psych Ward Stay: Strategies from a Psychiatric Nurse
7 Myths About Pediatric Depression
My Faith Saved Me
Q&A with NIMH Director Dr. Josh Gordon
What Is The Role Of Activity For Mental Health?
Strategies to Afford Mental Health Treatment
How Therapy Helped Me Manage Trauma
The Value of Structured Outpatient Treatment
Getting My Son the Help He Needed
Coronavirus: Mental Health Treatment
Disgust: A Natural Emotional Response to Abuse
It's Okay If You Need Meds to Be Okay
How to Keep People Engaged in Mental Health Treatment
The Key to Finding the Best Help
Experiencing Both Perspectives of EMDR: Provider and Patient
Shared Decision-making: Getting a Say in Your Care
The Power of Emotion Education
Growing up Without Mental Health Support
Self-Help Techniques for Coping with Mental Illness
An Ode to Schizophrenia
Spreading Hope Through Peer Support
Everyone Deserves Adequate Mental Health Care
Getting Involved with Minority Mental Health
Treating Depression When Medication Doesn’t Work
Why Do We Have the Feeling that We Are Not Enough?
Combating Loneliness with EASE
Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?
4 Ways Teens Can Access Therapy Without Health Insurance
A Therapist’s Journey: Learning the Art of Self-Soothing
Are You a Chronic Self-Abandoner?
Anxiety, My Companion
My First Voice
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