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4 Tips for Conquering a Stressful Job When You Have Bipolar Disorder
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If you know anything about call center work, you would know it is probably the worst place to work for someone living with bipolar disorder. As an employee who ...

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How Mindfulness Can Help People with Chronic Illness
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Mindfulness is the practice of noticing present-moment experiences with curiosity and a lack of judgment. A person who has, knows, or lives with someone with a ...

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What My White Therapist Refuses to Understand About Black Women and Eating Disorders
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I am a Black, queer, disabled, fat woman. I have a diagnosis of disordered eating. I have been dealing with this since I was 6. My mom pushed her ...

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Why New York’s Involuntary Commitment Plan for Homeless People Is Dangerous
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The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has announced that to address the situation of people experiencing homelessness living in the subways and the ...

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Netflix’s ‘Stutz’ Illuminates the Healing Power of the Therapeutic Relationship
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It’s not often that one gets a fly-on-the-wall view of what happens in the therapy room. For a myriad of reasons — the least of which would be HIPAA and most ...

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6 Key Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mental Health Now
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It is so important to understand that despite a mental illness there are still many things you can do with your life. I honestly feel that many people, ...

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How to Survive Survivor’s Guilt
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At 15, I beat cancer. The treatment worked, there was no more evidence of the disease, and I was starting to feel better physically. But mentally, I was a ...

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10 Ways to Cope With Grief During the Holidays
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Although the holidays are usually a happy time of year, they can be painful for people who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Things like toxic ...

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Telling My Friends About My Depression Saved My Life
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Ask anyone living with a mental illness and they will agree with you on this: Talking about your illness isn’t easy. And if you live with major depressive ...

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How to Create Realistic Media Portrayals of People with Bipolar Disorder
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Often conflated with dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder (BD), or manic depression, is one of the most widely misunderstood and wrongly portrayed ...

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7 Ways You Can Support Someone Who Has Schizoaffective Disorder
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Do you have a friend or family member with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder? To begin, I want to explain what schizoaffective disorder is. ...

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14 Best SAD Lamps for Seasonal Depression Light Therapy
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SAD lamps can help people with seasonal affective disorder, also known as seasonal depression, cope with winter. These light therapy devices simulate natural ...

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