May is National Mental Health Awareness Month! Every year during this month organizations, bloggers, individuals and non-profits raise their voices to fight the stigma behind mental health issues. What Can You Do During Mental Health Awareness Month? The answer is lots! Whether you’re struggling with a mental health issue, a support person, or just an […]
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Have you ever experienced co-dependence in a relationship? If you have, you know it can be a real challenge. Not only to the relationship but to your mental health as well. So today, we’re going to explore co-dependency. This includes knowing what it is, how to recognize it, and how to move towards a healthier
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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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Exploring the dark history of asylums and the rise of deinstitutionalization in the US.
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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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