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Five Fingers, Five Reasons: How Knitting Comforted My Mom
Through knitting, a mother living with schizophrenia found a meaningful method to express her creativity and find relaxation for more than 50 years. Read her daughter's lovely tribute to the craft's mental health benefits.
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Taking Off My Mask
Absolutely no one knew that two months before I moved into my tiny dorm room, I was sitting in an even tinier room in the psychiatric unit after attempting to take my life.
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Mothers: You Are Not Alone
Please talk about your symptoms and find treatment. Continuing a discussion about PPD will continue to raise awareness, increase normality and break the stigma.
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Turning the Clock May Turn Your Mood
This Sunday Nov. 6 at 2 a.m. we will “fall back” to standard time. It’s important to be prepared for the potential effect this change may have on your mental health. -
Practicing Mindfulness through Kindness and Compassion
Learn more about how the mindfulness practice of sending kind and compassionate intentions to yourself and others can improve your mental health. -
Why Me?
I checked myself into the hospital for the first time and I was scared. I didn’t know what to expect. Everything that is seen in the media about mental illness is frightening.
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How Buddhism Benefits Mental Health
Although Buddhism is primarily known as a spiritual tradition, it is also a lifestyle that encompasses the mind in almost all forms of practice. -
An Ocean of Sadness
People ask me what living with depression is like. I don’t know how to verbalize it other than to say, it’s like slowly drowning in an ocean of sadness.
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Kelsey’s Story
Depression doesn’t have cure. It isn’t something that you can snap out of regardless of how many times people insist that you can.
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Help Yourself and Help Others
After having my son, I developed what I know now was postpartum depression. I felt worthless, hopeless and again had thoughts of suicide.