Category: Educate Yourself

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Antidepressants

Depression can be a very difficult thing to live with. Luckily, there ways get the help and support you need to get better. One option is taking antidepressant drugs, which are designed to treat...

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Finding a Mental Health Professional

Starting to look for a mental health professional may seem overwhelming at first.  Someone may refer or suggest you to someone, or your parents may set up an appointment after talking to another professional....

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Love is Respect

You’ve heard it before — love is respect. But where can you go for support when a loving relationship has become a relationship without respect? Loveisrespect is a website with endless resources for those in an abusive relationship...

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Body Talk

  Often one of the hardest topics to bring up with an adult is the changes that are happening to your body. However, there are some things that simply shouldn’t be left to your...

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True Friendship

As we live our lives, people come in and out of our social interactions. Particularly in young adulthood, in settings such as school or extracurricular activities, we constantly meet people and create relationships.  However, sometimes...

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New medication?!?!

Starting a new medication? Congratulations! This is a brilliant step in your journey of helping yourself to find health. There are some very important things that you can do to make the most of...

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Antidepressant Warnings

Its important to understand the risks of taking any medication. But its also important to understand where those risks came from. For antidepressants, there is a black box warning on antidepressants for children and...

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Is it serious?

It can sometimes be tough to figure out how serious a mental health problem is – especially in the beginning for a teenager. If you try to think about physical health problems, sometimes there...

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Writing about mental health

I started my first diary when I was 12 years old and I haven’t stopped writing since. My diaries from middle school focus a lot on my friends, my crushes, shaky attempts at poetry,...

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Can you trust yourself?

Have you ever felt like you can psycho-analyze other people really well? You know, like you can just pinpoint what their issue is. By seeing their behavior on the outside, you feel like you...