mental health rights

Mental Floss: How to Take A Break

Have you ever looked up from your work only to realize you’ve neglected to take a break for the whole day? Ever wonder how it’s already 5 PM and you haven’t had anything but a candy bar and some after dinner mints all day? Do you sometimes find yourself cranky and hangry by the time …

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Four Pieces of U.S. Legislation Affecting Your Mental Health (And Why You Should Know About Them)

How much do you know about the legislation affecting your mental health care? Admittedly, I never really thought about the topic much myself. But after a pretty traumatic hospitalization, I began to get curious about the laws that perpetuated such a terrible system. Turns out, there’s a lot of legislation out there governing your mental …

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

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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