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Finding My Way Back from Suicidal Thoughts

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Supporting Adolescent Mental Health During a Pandemic and Back to School

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Reclaiming the Memories of My Sister

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Asking for and Accepting Help Saved Me

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7 Behaviors for Improving Mental Health

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How I Founded The Company I Needed During My Journey with OCD

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Neurofeedback: A Complement to Talk Therapy and Medication

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Truth About Dissociative Identity Disorder

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6 Things I Know Are True: My Journey with Mental Illness

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The Transdiagnostic Dimensional Approach: Another Way of Understanding Mental Illness

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Serious Mental Illness Recovery: The Basics

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I Am in Charge of My Treatment Plan

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Aspects of Culturally Competent Care That We Don’t Talk About (But Need To)

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How the Mental Health Community Can Support Black Mental Health

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Addressing the Increased Risk of Postpartum Depression for Black Women

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Navigating My Relationship with Religion While Living with Mental Illness

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Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian

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How Lived Experience and Identity Shape Mental Health Counseling

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Fighting Gender-Based Harassment and Depression

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Accepting My Sexuality in Eating Disorder Recovery

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What My Brothers Taught Me About the Importance of Early Intervention

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

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Stereotypes and Seeking Care in a Racialized America

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What I Learned While Volunteering for a Trans Suicide Prevention Hotline

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Bettering Mental Health Outcomes for LGBTQ+ Youth

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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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How To Navigate the Overwhelming Volume of Mental Health Apps

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The Not So Pretty Version of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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I Thought I Understood My Daughter's Mental Illness, But I Had No Idea

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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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Learning My Warning Signs Through Each Stage of My Life

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How to Predict Your Next Bipolar Episode

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Things I Didn’t Expect When I Became a Parent

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How a School Project Helped Me Face My Trauma

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Building an Early Warning Sign System

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Understanding Schizophrenia

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Tips for Running a Peer Support Group Online

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My Daughter’s First Episode of Psychosis

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Anxiety And Fear: What's The Difference?

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Warning Signs of Mental Illness in Children

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Myths and Facts of Bipolar Disorder

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Five Warning Signs of Mental Illness that People Miss

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A Mother’s Reflection Over the Loss of Her Son

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A Message for Anyone with a Treatment-Resistant Mental Illness

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Redefining My Normal After My Diagnosis

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Celebrating My 20-Year Recovery Journey

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Let My Journey with BPD Be Your Guide (Not Your Blueprint)

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The Importance of Explaining Our Lived Experience

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How Biking Helped My PTSD

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The Power of Delusion

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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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How Understanding My OCD Helped Me Manage It

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Three Psychiatric Facilities in Seven Weeks

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Schizophrenia Does Not Have Me

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Zoomed: My Experience with Online Group Therapy

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How Public Officials Can Protect the Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness

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The Cost of Criminalizing Serious Mental Illness

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Criminal Justice Involvement of People with Serious Mental Illness

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What Is Mental Health Probation?

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He’s Not a Criminal, He’s in Crisis

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Black Mental Health and the Importance of 988 Legislation

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The Voices that Caused Me to Lose Everything

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Neuroplasticity II: Recovery After Jail

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Neuroplasticity: How I Survived Psychosis and Jail

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Criminal Justice Reform Means Reforming the Mental Health System

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A Plea for Compassion as Someone Who Was Arrested During Psychosis

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Reaching Out to a Loved One with Substance Use Disorder

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Black History Month: Writing This Triggers My Anxiety

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The Most Common Symptom That Is Rarely Asked About

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How The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Helped My Anxiety

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Overcoming Low Self-Worth with Anxiety, Depression and ADHD

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Recovery Begins with a Decision

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Trauma in Children of Latinx Immigrants

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The Many Impacts of Self-Stigma

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My Experience with a Catatonic-like State

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Understanding the Symptoms of BPD

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What Black History Month Means to Me

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Six Self-Care Tips on Overcoming Abuse-Related Trauma

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A New Tool to Help Plan for Crises

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Grounding Schizophrenia Through Tai Chi

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How I Manage the Side Effects of Antipsychotics

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Reframing Mental Health Labels

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Healing from Heartbreak with BPD

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A Letter to Those Struggling with Mental Illness

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Why I Embrace 12-Step Principles as a Therapist

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The Use of Language and Imagery as a Tool for Managing Anxiety

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Making a Difference One Person at a Time

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My Routine Is Both a Blessing and the Bane of My Existence

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Literature as a Lens to Understand Trauma

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The Mental Health of the Modern Dad

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