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Mind over Emotion: If I knew these cognitive symptoms could have been treated separately from my emotional distress, I...
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More than Coffee: To my pleasant surprise, however, the employee put her hand on his shoulder, asked him if there was...
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Movie Classic Opened My Eyes to Life's Value: Simply living makes us all a success!
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My Peers Taught Me How to Protect Myself: I was looking for a course that would teach me how to function with my mental illness and live a...
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PEOPLe, Inc. is Sharpening the Vision of a Better Mental Health System: From the President's Freedom Commission to the State's Winds of Change to the City's Quality...
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Press, Are You With Us?: All we needed was a single report through the newswire services that a consumer committed a violent...
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Providers Must Prove Worthy for City Contracts: After years of telling patients what's good for them, mental health professionals are now asking...
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Self-Discovery Through Recovery: Being conscious of the illness allows me to take charge of it, and not let it get the best of me....
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Self-Help Source Makes Search for Mental Health Easier: We help people find support groups in their locations, inform them how to start groups of their...
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The ADA Failed to Protect Me: When epidemiologists measure "disease burden"--the impact of a disease or injury on mortality and...
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The Jury's Out on Gideon Busch Killers: If six police officers ... cannot disarm an emotionally disturbed man, short of shooting that...
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The Power of Journaling: Part One: [When writing in your journal] do not worry about finding just the 'right' words. Spelling,...
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To Get Better Faster: Educate Thyself: It's up to us stakeholders, consumers and family members to demand that mental health education...
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Together We Learn About Each Other: Every group has differences of race, class, gender, age, sexuality and more...When someone who's...
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Weight Gain and Diabetes Risk with Psychiatric Medications: [If you've had a lot of weight gain from antipsychotic medications, continuing with these...
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You're Right to Write: That is the beauty of the written word: if we name it, we can claim it.
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A Weighty Illness: …I not comfortable in my own skin, in this new bigger size…Even in those rare moments, when a man...
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An Afternoon to Never Forget: I will share with you my reflections on October 4th's benefit/fundraiser for the fine publication...
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As I See it: My Friends are Dying Like Flies: …we generally are overweight due to the psychiatric medicines and those who smoke or have smoked...
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Consumers Help Form Legislative Agenda: "…we voted on what the five most important issues were to us…Housing issues got the most votes.
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Consumers Tell NYC Mental Hygiene Department What's Good for Consumers: After years of telling patients what's good for them, mental health professionals are now asking...
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Don't Panic!: You should begin the deep breathing before you enter a crowded room to prepare yourself for the...
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Finding Hope is Key: You're not going to make it just by lying down and waiting for it…it may not seem fair, but it is...
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Forget What the Skeptics Say: Show through words, actions and attitude that recovery is possible. Provide long-term options given...
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Guess What I Learned as a Peer Counselor: I learned not to judge others who appear much less functional than me.
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Health Insurers Resist Full Mental Health Coverage: The O'Clairs had to relinquish custody of Timothy into foster care, so he could get the treatment...
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I Bravely Choose to Live: …I thought with all I had been through, I was destined to be chosen Miss America…[In truth] I had...
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I Found Myself and My Voice: I implore all survivors to seek therapists and survivor groups who allow us to speak our truth and...
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Memorable Mental Health Gala: Mr. O'Clair announced that, five months into his campaign for parity, he began to speak of his...
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Mental Health Circus: "…developmentally disabled and physically disabled Americans, mental health consumer groups…Jewish,...
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Mental Illness and War: A Comparison: If the U.S. put the kind of money and effort that is being put into the War on Terror into research...
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Mental Illness is Chemical, Therapy Won't Help!: Fortunately for me, however, my wife convinced me to give at least one more therapist a try…[Now my...
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Mentoring Model Works for Recovery: Mentoring relationships between newly diagnosed individuals and role models living within their...