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Writing for Mental Health

Keeping a journal, or journaling, can be a powerful tool to help maintain and improve overall wellness and to help address specific mental health challenges. Keeping a journal is simply the act of writing daily about your experiences, observations, thoughts … Continue reading →

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Think Positive: How Positive Psychiatry Promotes Recovery

September is National Recovery Month, a time to celebrate those recovering from mental health issues and to remind everyone that recovery is possible. Recovery is a process. An important part of recovery is helping people understand their own strengths to … Continue reading →

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Music Therapy: Can It Really Reduce The Levels of Anxiety Among Patients?

For a lot of people, music therapy is an effective tool to make them feel better. While such claim has long been a mere opinion, a recent study has turned it into a fact that could help not just the … Continue reading →

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Coping with Thoughts of Suicide

More than 40,000 people die by suicide each year in the United States. Millions more struggle with thoughts of suicide according to a September 2016 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). A look at the … Continue reading →

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How Does Your Depression Affect Your Child?

Tracy Thompson begins her thoughtful book The Ghost in the House with two brilliant sentences: “Motherhood and depression are two countries with a long common border. The terrain is chilly and inhospitable, and when mothers speak of it at all, … Continue reading →

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