Breaking the Cycle Part 3: Everyone’s Distant Cousin but No One’s Baby

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How the Community Care movement resulted in an epidemic of homelessness. …Deinstitutionalization is at the very least a work in progress if it has begun at all… Hamlin and Oakes Reflections on Deinstitutionalization in the United Kingdom – 2008 1984. England. A scathing report emerges: the structure of the National Health Service is woefully broken, […]

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Breaking the Cycle: Pt. 2 – Relics of a Dark Past

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Exploring the dark history of asylums and the rise of deinstitutionalization in the US.

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Breaking the Cycle – Exploring Community Mental Health Care Pt. 1: Intro

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Community Care is a way to shift the onus of solving social problems away from the individual, like Kenny, who rarely has the resources, emotional education, time, or money to “self care,” to a greater collective that includes individuals, governments, aid organizations, communities, and businesses working together to improve the systemically broken conditions that produce

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Open Book: Lessons from Vulnerability and Mental Illness

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Have you ever been there? You meet someone new and say “oh wow they’re really cool, I could be friends with this person or even more.” So you get closer and closer with your new love interest or your work friend or the people in your hobby group. Everything is going good, except they don’t

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Being Happy with Mental Illness

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“I had the idea that I was excluded from things like parenthood, having a successful career, and being happy because I never really saw anyone else with mental illness doing well”

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Mental Wealth: 10 Ways to Balance Your Finances During a Mental Health Crisis

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One of the best things you can do for yourself in a Mental Health Crisis is make sure you’re financially stable. Read through to discover how to balance your finances during a crisis.

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26 Ways to Support your Loved One Through Mental Illness…in fun ABC form.

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26 unique ways to support your loved ones (and yourself) through a bout of mental illness.

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The MSB Legal Tool-kit

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It’s here! Our very first tool-kit to help YOU keep a MH inpatient stay therapeutic, effective, and safe. Know your rights! Be your own best advocate!

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Infographic: U.S. Mental Health Law Factsheet

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Get a primer on past and current mental health laws with this colorful infographic. Find out how U.S. law is working in favor of your mental health!

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