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At the top of the previous week, I was persistently nagged by the muse. I absolutely adore the muse and she and I are best friends. However, sometimes it is hard to understand her whispers. So last week was an anxi ...
Posted Sunday, October 26th 2008 at 9:02AM
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Out of the millions of people in America who suffer from some form of a brain disorder such as Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, etc., African-Americans are the least likely to seek treatment! This res ...
Posted Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 4:38PM
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The National Mental Illness Awareness Week will kick off on October 5, 2008 through October 11, 2008! So, I was wondering, what is your favorite mental illness?
That's right. Choose any mental illness that you or a family member may have or ...
Posted Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 4:27PM
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I was brought up in a religious home like many of you. I believed I was very grounded in my faith until after I married and moved away. Although I continued my religious practices, life was coming at me hard and fast as a wife and mother of three ...
Posted Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 3:44PM
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I did it! I challenged myself to do a seven-day marathon bringing as much valuable information as possible about mental illnesses! To everybody who read the information, THANK YOU!!!!! Now you are armed with valuable information to save an untreat ...
Posted Sunday, October 12th 2008 at 8:27PM
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What is Evidenced-Based Practices (EBP)?
According to NAMI with input from the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Child, Adolescent & Family Branch of the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), EBP's are tried and ...
Posted Saturday, October 11th 2008 at 7:48PM
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(This is a repost. I don't know what happened to the original, but I did not want folks to get confused with the series out of sequence).
What exactly is a "quality" of life?
Well, according to Wikipedia, quality of life is the degree o ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2008 at 10:02AM
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Yes, that was the theme song, "Wake-Up Everybody, No More Sleeping In Bed!" by the Harold Melvin and the BLUE Notes back in the day. I hope I'm telling my age because my life has been an evolution of sorts.
Back in the day, I was dancing to tha ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2008 at 7:27PM
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(This is a repost. I do not know what happened to first post)
In an article by Dr. Peter S. Jensen, M.D. titled: "Setting the Record Straight: Fact v. Fiction About ADHD," it becomes quite clear that the need for people to learn about and under ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2008 at 2:47PM
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One of the chief reasons I kept having Bipolar episodes during my early stages of treatment is that I could not afford the cost of medications. Because of that, I routinely skipped doses and I even stopped taking my prescriptions once for two months ...
Posted Sunday, October 5th 2008 at 3:07PM
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Mental illnesses are brain disorders due to a chemical imbalance. When the brain gets sick, it cannot heal itself. You only get one brain!
Mental illnesses make it difficult or impossible to live a normal life without medication and therapy and ...
Posted Sunday, October 5th 2008 at 2:17PM
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Monday is the day of the week where most persons may experience depression. It may be due to weekend use of substances, realization that you are still broke and you just got paid, or the anxieties of what the upcoming week will hold. I learned tha ...
Posted Saturday, October 4th 2008 at 10:38AM
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Depression is a normal emotion that comes and goes with life. It is a chemical release in the brain known as dopemine that is probably responsible for the emotion depression.
When someone dies or we lose our job, we may feel periods of sadness. ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 12:27PM
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Out of the millions of people in America who suffer from some form of a mental illness such as Bipolar, African-Americans are the least likely to seek treatment. This results in over hundreds of thousands of African-Americans committing suicide or ha ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2008 at 7:18AM
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Statistically, 1 in 5 American families are directly affected by mental illness; 1 in 100 American people will develop Schizophrenia, 5 to 9 percent of American children ages 5 to 17 are affected by a mental illness (i.e., ADHD)!
Let's get even cl ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 4:27PM
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I often hear people explain that the reason that they do not get involved with helping a loved one seek mental health treatment is that they do not want a confrontation.
That is certainly a valid reason for all parties involved not to get into a ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 3:57PM
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