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Fidget Toys for Skin Picking, Hair Pulling, and Dermatillomania

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner... a skin picker, that is! I pick and bite my fingers and nails, and I'm not alone. If you struggle ...

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I Thought My OCD Intrusive Thoughts Meant I Wanted to Hurt People

Out of all the anxiety disorder symptoms I've experienced, intrusive thoughts are definitely the worst. There are many struggles faced by people living with ...

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Why Loneliness Can Be the Hardest Thing to Overcome in Your Mental Health Recovery

When I was 16 and attending high school, depression and loneliness ruled my life. What was baffling was that, in the eyes of people around me, I had everything ...

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How to Support Mental Health Workers as an Employer

The field of mental health can be intensive and all-consuming. Counselors, therapists, and caseworkers commonly find themselves working in distressing ...

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10 Mental Health Books That Are BIPOC and LGBTQ Inclusive

For many members of marginalized communities, mental wellness can be hard to come by due to factors such as inaccessible mental health care, discrimination, ...

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How Healing From Trauma Is Like the Tides of an Ocean

If our dreams are supposed to be representative of what our unconscious minds are processing, mine are very revealing. I often have a recurring dream that ...

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Death and High Heels: Reflections on Life With Chronic Illness

Editor's note: This story includes discussions of death and suicide that some readers may find triggering. If you need crisis support in the USA, call 988, or ...

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How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Help You Manage Suicidal Ideation

I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder since 2018, but since my youth, I have always suffered from a lack of meaning in life. It was only ...

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Functioning with Depression: My Best Life Advice

The saying goes: “You learn something new every day.” Well, it’s been a lot of days and I am running out of “facts I didn’t already know.” I am constantly ...

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How Affiliate Marketing Can Help You as a Disabled Business Owner or Influencer

If you are a small business owner, blogger, or social media influencer who lives with a chronic illness, mental health condition, and/or disability, you’re ...

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Finding My Daily Reprieve in Life with Chronic Mental Illness

Life sometimes seems to come down to small moments that open highways of opportunities that can take you almost anywhere. One of these was my last night ...

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What You Need to Hear on Your Darkest Days with Mental Illness

It’s 2022, and I refer to 2013 as being 7 years ago. I don’t know where the time went and when I start to think about it, it’s all a blur, as if I have been on ...

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