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Mental Health Checklists

WEBWe’ve collected a few mental health checklists that you can explore and maybe even print out and use. These are not meant to be screening checklists, which professionals often use when diagnosing mental illnesses, but are instead used by you …

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Mental Health Literacy: What Is It, and Why Is It Important

WEBHealth literacy is the ability to find, read, understand, and use information to make choices about your health and the care you receive. Mental health literacy is made up of four main components: Building skills to get and stay mentally healthy. Improve …

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The Struggle in Finding Treatment for POC

WEBStigma towards mental health and mental illness has always been present, but the way that stigma is expressed and the level of stigma can depend on a variety of things. One of those ways is how stigma can differ among different races: posts here …

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Journaling: What it is, Why it helps, and How to start

WEBJournaling is a powerful mental health tool that you may want to consider trying (or may already be doing!).Journaling refers to the act of using pen and paper to put words to what you think and feel. Its positive benefits—such as helping with stress, …

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Social Anxiety: The Symptoms and Potential Causes

WEBHaving an intense fear of being embarrassed. Shaking, sweating, and having an increased heart rate when in social situations. Frequent stomach aches or headaches which may cause more school absences. Trouble maintaining friendships. Social anxiety …

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How Social Media Can Provide Resources for Mental …

WEBIn fact, they are likely to be on the social media platforms they’re already using for everything else when they’re online. While youths use social media primarily to vent and have someone they can trust and have access to when experiencing mental …

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How Media Influences Self-Harm, And What We Can Do …

WEBThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refers to this phenomenon as “suicide contagion”: exposure to graphic reports or representations of self-destructive behaviors in our families, peer groups, social media, or media coverage can …

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Sports and Their Effects on Mental Health

WEBAdolescents can be severely affected by the pressures that their coaches, parents, and even their own brain places on them, which can then in turn affect their mental health to a more extreme level. Playing sports has an outstanding effect on physical …

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Healthy Ways to Express Your Emotions

WEBEmotions are a part of life. Many of us experience a wide variety of emotions from joy to sadness to excitement and anger. Allowing yourself to feel different emotions without judgment is an important part of improving and maintaining your mental health.

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Radical Self-Care: What We Can Learn From Activist …

WEBSelf-care is a radical act for many as they learn to put their needs, emotions, and well-being first. You may have heard the name Angela Davis pop up over the past years. As an activist for Black lives and education for decades, she is familiar with the …

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Boys' Mental Health

WEBWith the recent rising rates of depression in the US, mental health is being recognized as a crisis in American youth. While mental illness is commonly thought to be associated with girls, statistics tell us that boys are just as vulnerable.. Teen girls attempt …

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How Speaking Up Can Improve Your Mental Health

WEBRecently, I have learned an interesting fact about myself in therapy.I do not speak up for myself enough, and as a result, my mental health has suffered.. I’ve always known that I can be a bit of a pushover when it comes to others. There are many times …

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Mental Health Experts on Social Media

WEBSimilar accounts from psychiatrists and doctors educating about mental health include Dr. Vania Manipod and Dr. Lisa Long. While it could be easy to assume that medical and professional information can be dry, all of these accounts know how to use …

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TikTok and Mental Health: What’s the Connection

WEBThere are many barriers to receiving mental health care from lack of insurance to lack of transportation or lack of parental support. For some teens, a self-diagnosis is the only way to receive some sort of explanation for the way they are feeling …

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Peer Support: What is it, and Why Does it Matter

WEBThis kind of help is called peer support. Peer support is available for people of all ages with varying needs. Youth Peer Support Workers are adolescents with a self-identified history of mental illness who use their experiences to help others. They go …

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Music and Mental Health

WEBFor anyone else out there who’s super passionate about music, there’s actually a really cool field called music therapy. The lab has added more information if you’re interested**, but it’s trying different music interventions to boost your mood and …

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A Feminist View on Mental Illness

WEBThis creates a cycle that silences women and ignores their health needs: First, a woman develops symptoms of a mental health condition. Second, she is judged for her illness. Third, she is not given proper medical and social support. Fourth, her …

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Why Does Organizing Help with Anxiety

WEBEven considering organizing sends a calming rush sometimes. De-cluttering and putting things in order are popular activities in order to help with stress, and there have been several studies that have come up with possible reasons as to why this happens. …

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Rewriting Nightmares

WEBChildren between the ages of 3-6 are more likely to be affected by nightmares and have trouble getting rest as well, which can be especially damaging considering that they need between 10-13 hours of sleep. These effects are also …

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Maintaining Personal Hygiene During a Depressive Episode

WEBSink Baths and Baby Wipes. Using a washcloth and some soap in your sink to hit the “hot” areas like your armpits before applying more deodorant is a way to clean up a bit. If your sink is deep enough, you can even wash your hair under the faucet. You …

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