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5 Things You Can Do to Help Your Child with Depression
We keep hearing that depression rates are rising, especially among youth and adolescents. If you are worried your child may be going through depression, here are a few steps to take. -
Spreading Hope Through Peer Support
Being able to connect with a person who has been through a similar experience can help someone achieve their recovery goals. Learn more about this important piece of first episode psychosis programs from the perspective of someone whose been on both sides of peer support. -
College Students of Color: Overcoming Mental Health Challenges
Feelings of marginalization and isolation can be harmful to mental health for students of color. Learn more about how colleges and universities can create environments in which young people of color are valued. -
How Schools Can Help Students Respond to Suicide
"13 Reasons Why" shows all the wrong ways a school can respond to suicide. Read how schools should support students after a suicide loss. -
What Happens When Celebrities Talk About Mental Illness
There’s recently been an incredible chain reaction that inspired millions: A connection between three men who never dreamed they had something so personal in common. -
Preventing a Generation from Struggling in Silence
If we fail to teach the younger generations about mental health, they may struggle alone rather than talk to people who can help them. They may feel ashamed for what they experience rather than know it’s not their fault. They may even take their lives. -
Mental Health Conditions are Legitimate Health Conditions
It's widely accepted that if you have a health problem, you would see a medical professional who specializes in that problem’s proper treatment. But if you're faced with a mental health problem, is your first instinct to see a mental health professional? Society has taught many of us to answer no. -
When Your Parents Have Mental Illness: Healing Childhood Trauma
“Maybe you’ve spent your life watching your mother or father struggle with anxiety, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. So, what can you do if you grew up with parents or siblings experiencing mental illness, or in a family with a history of abuse or neglect?” -
Being the Person My 13-Year-Old Self Needed
"Fast-forward six years: I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. It was six years of feeling completely alone. Six years of feeling like I was the only person that felt the way I did. Six years of feeling helpless." -
Living With Suicide Loss
"Four months into life without Preston, every task overwhelmed me, from choosing clothes to wear to signing a birthday card…I insisted vehemently to myself that I wasn’t depressed. 'I’m just tired. I need a break,' went the script. But a break didn’t help."