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Los Angeles Day to day struggles of living with mental illness

Depression - recognize it - don't dismiss it

As I sit at my desk and try to focus while surrounded by a variety of stimuli, I have to continually "snap out of it" - 'it'...
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Tolerance

  • Mental Health Awareness Week
  • October 8, 2010
I feel it is important to convey one specific thought prior to the closing of Mental Health Awareness Week…tolerance.For those individuals...
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Self awaremess and mental health recovery

One of the hardest things to do in recovery is to become aware of our own actions, and to have insight as to what we should do when certain things...
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How does stress affect someone with a mental illness

Stress is a big trigger for most people who have a mental illness. It can cause you to feel like your symptoms have increased. Stress is the number...
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The things that keep you well when you have a mental health disorder

According to Pat Deegan, there are two different types of medicine, pill medicine, and personal medicine. Personal medicine can include things such...
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Take steps to recover from mental illness: Part two

In part one of this series we talked about what it means to believe that we can recover from a mental health disorder. This notion that we can...
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Mental illness or religious experience

Many people feel that what they are going through is a religious experience and not a mental illness. A good way to counter this type of thought,...
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Apology and mental illness

Your loved ones may have a mental illness, and you may not know it yet, but what happens when they are not well, is not exactly them. What might...
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Take steps to recover from mental illness: Part one

The English definition of the word "cope" is "to face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties, esp. successfully...
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Important supports for those with mental illness

There are support groups within the community in which anyone with a mental illness can go to find hope and compassion from others who face these...
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