Getting Help: Where to Start
Mental health problems don’t only affect adults. Children, teens and young adults can have mental health problems, too. In fact, three out of four people with mental health problems showed signs before they were...
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Getting Help: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Some subjects, like suicide, are difficult and complicated to talk about with anyone. However, it is a very important topic, and the suicide rate hit a 40-year-peak among older teen girls in 2015. Therefore, for...
13 Reasons Why
Trigger Warning: Discussion about Suicide By now you’ve most likely heard about Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why (13RW). It is a very captivating show, but also raises questions about whether the creators did the right thing...
Why I Stopped Self Harming
Trigger Warning: Self Harm I recently found this article called 8 Brutally Honest Reasons I’ve Stopped Self-Harming and I found it to be very interesting and honest. Self Harm is something that many adolescents struggle with daily...
Crisis Hotline
If you or someone you care about is in crisis, time is of the essence. Take some time now to check out a national resource we are lucky to have in the U.S.: the National...
Getting Help: Where to Start
Mental health problems don’t only affect adults. Children, teens and young adults can have mental health problems, too. In fact, three out of four people with mental health problems showed signs before they were...
Emotional First-Aid
Why is it important to heal your emotions? During his practice, Guy Winch, a licensed psychologist and author, noticed how most cultures value the body over the mind. He points out that we experience more...
Confidentiality during Mental Health Treatment
A big worry about talking to a therapist is: your privacy. Will the therapist tell anyone else all of my business? The short answer is no, unless you or someone else is in danger....
Why talking to friends/family is different from talking to a therapist
You’re comfortable with your friends, they know your history, and you trust and care about each other, so why go to a therapist? What can a therapist do that a friend can’t? First, a...
Trust Somebody
Now when you’re outta your mind Working that blind To turn it around you better trust somebody Look at yourself you like what you see If you want something else you better trust somebody...
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