We all know how important it is to eat properly. But did you know it’s also crucial to have a well balanced emotional diet too? You are what you eat, after all, and that goes for your mental state! Since I’m a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I have to pay special attention to where my […]
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Lately, MSB has been on a role – producing more content than ever. If you’re a frequent reader you know we start many of our articles by asking “why?” So why is it that this blog has gone from a personal hobby to a passionate career for me? Most Mental Health Resources Are Written by
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Relationships are hard – they only get tougher when mental illness is thrown into the mix and can make some view intimacy as a lost cause. But did you know having an supportive intimate relationship can drastically improve the life of someone battling MI? That’s right! Love is key to a healthy life, especially for
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For some of us, the pandemic has cut off our access to consistent mental health care and activities. We can’t do much about that but what we can do is try to take some of those activities and adapt them to work for us at home. Think of this as Mental Health Homework to keep
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Today we’re talking about how to afford your medication…even WITHOUT insurance. That’s right….we’re talking about drugs, man. Specifically we’re talking about an experience where I overpaid for mine and what you can do to avoid the very same pitfall. Storytime – How NOT to Afford Your Medication So a little while ago I used CVS
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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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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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“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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