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Mental Health @ Home: A Safe Place to Talk About …

WEBWelcome to Mental Health @ Home! I’m Ashley L. Peterson, creator of this blog and author of the titles published by MH@H Books. I worked as a mental health nurse for 15 years, working primarily with people with …

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Free Mental Health Workbooks: ACT, CBT, DBT, and More

WEBCentre for Clinical Interventions: this Australian organization has workbooks/worksheets for a wide variety of mental health concerns. Clinical Research …

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Mental Health Coping Toolkit

WEBMental Health Coping Toolkit. This page began as the COVID-19/Mental Health Coping Toolkit, and it was created to pull together resources to help people cope during a really difficult time. Pandemic restrictions have …

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Applying Spoon Theory to Living with Mental Illness

WEBIf illness is impairing your concentration, tasks that require focus are going to take more mental energy. Yes, reading can use up spoons! Dealing with stressors can be a massive drain on your spoon …

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Stop the Stigma: Let's Change Attitudes About Mental …

WEBHealth:, 16(1), 3-18. An Example of the Power of Advocacy. Serenity Integrated Mentoring was a program adopted by almost half of NHS Trusts in England. It involved pairing high emergency service users (mostly …

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The Benefits of Peer Support for Mental Illness

WEBThe Mental Health Commission of Canada says: “Peer support programs work by offering people support, encouragement, and hope that recovery is possible. …

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What Is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

WEBThis week’s term is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed a model of human motivation that was based on a hierarchy of needs, both physical and psychological, …

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Harm Reduction for Self-Harm

WEBHarm reduction is a widely accepted public health approach. In the context of addictions, it can include safer smoking/injecting supplies, opioid substitution therapy …

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Why Social Determinants of Health Matter

WEBJuly 4, 2019. Health.gov. Social determinants of health represent those factors that, whether we have control over them or not, can significantly influence both physical and mental health outcomes. Differences …

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The Mental Status Exam (MSE) in Psychiatry

WEBThe mental status exam (MSE) is a framework for assessment that’s used widely in the field of psychiatry. Rather than being a one-time assessment, it is used on an ongoing basis to capture how a …

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The Role of Heredity in Mental Illness

WEBGenetic factors can account for different percentages of the overall risk. Huntingdon’s disease is all genetic. Among mental illnesses, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder …

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Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege

WEBSome arguments for health care as privilege. I came across a forum on Debate.org in which people posted their views on this topic. The majority of people …

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Inaccurate & Damaging Mental Illness Stereotypes

WEBIncompetence. Another common stereotype is that people with mental illness are incompetent, unable to work or function independently, and need others to …

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What We Can Learn from the Medicine Wheel

WEBThe medicine wheel is used by certain North American Indigenous peoples to tie together culture, traditional knowledge, health, and healing. Traditionally, it was …

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My Hermitification: Depression & Social Isolation

WEBOctober 29, 2017. Depression is a profoundly isolating illness, as many mental illnesses can be. As my own illness progresses, in many ways I find myself going through a sort of …

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How Effective Are Mental Health Awareness Campaigns

WEBIn terms of mental health advocacy, I’m unconvinced that all the awareness-raising is the best use of all the money being poured into it. If campaigns actually get …

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“Behavioral Health”: A Reflection of Structural Stigma

WEBBehavioral health problems include substance abuse or misuse, alcohol and drug addiction, serious psychological distress, suicide, and mental and substance use …

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Social Factors in Mental Illness

WEBOur whole lives, we are socialized into the system we belong to, which includes learning group norms, beliefs, and expectations. This means we grow up …

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Benefits of Universal Basic Income for People with Mental Illness

WEBThe stress associated with poverty is an important risk factor for mental illness, and guaranteeing people an income to meet basic needs would allow people to …

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Psych Meds Made Simple by Ashley L. Peterson

WEBAbout Psych Meds Made Simple. People living with mental illness are often left out of the loop when it comes to understanding how exactly medications work. This book explains …

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Political Advocacy to Challenge Mental Illness Stigma

WEBQuorum.us says “Political advocacy is an act of supporting a change or creation of an issue on a local, state, or federal level. When participating in political …

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A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms

WEBAlexithymia: an inability to identify and describe one’s emotions; considered to be a personality trait. Anhedonia: an inability to experience pleasure. Anosognosia: …

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