Mental Health Month

Mental Health in Quarantine

IN THE May 16 ISSUE

FROM THE 2020 Articles,
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by Rebecca Potts

Mental Health Awareness Month coincides this year with one of the most damaging events on mental health this country has ever seen—the Coronavirus Pandemic. We’ve been sheltering in place in California for more than fifty days now, and the uncertainty ahead is heavy to carry and more than most can handle.

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NAMI – The National Alliance on Mental Illness

IN THE May 28 ISSUE

FROM THE 2016 Articles,
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by Lorie Lewis Ham

Since May is Mental Health Month, we have been featuring a mental health related article every week. To end this month, we interviewed Bob Carolla, Senior Writer, Communications & Public Affairs, at NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Health) about what they are and what they do.

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If You Feel Too Much By Jamie Tworkowksi: Review/Giveaway

IN THE May 21 ISSUE

FROM THE 2016 Articles,
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by Lorie Lewis Ham

Jamie Tworkowksi is the founder of To Write Love on Her Arms–a non-profit dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.

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May is Mental Health Month

IN THE May 14 ISSUE

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by Muffy Walker

In 1949, Mental Health America named May as Mental Health Month. The purpose of the observance is to bring about awareness and spread the word that mental health is something everyone should care about. Awareness to other groups within that community has since grown with the first Thursday in May designated as National Children’s Mental Health Day.

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Being Bipolar and Suffering from Paranoia

IN THE May 7 ISSUE

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by Christine F. Anderson

I’m bipolar and I suffer from paranoia. They should be synonyms. It almost seems as if, if you’re bipolar, you’re automatically going to suffer from paranoia.
I know from experience; my level of paranoia runs the gamut. I have had episodes where I have thought that people were being sent to my house, that my house was bugged, that people or the feds were watching me, or that I was being followed. I got to the point where I wouldn’t drive.

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Alicia’s Bipolar Story

IN THE May 17 ISSUE

FROM THE 2014 Articles,
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by Alicia Smith

For 34 years I was self-employed; working for a lunatic. I worked long, hard and successfully but used work as a way to “escape” my mental illness. Many years later I realized that work was my coping mechanism. Many people engage in drugs, sex, gambling, alcohol, cigarettes and other vices; my escape was work and sugar, my “drugs” of choice.

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