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Free Mental Health Workbooks: ACT, CBT, DBT, and More

WEBCentre for Clinical Interventions: this Australian organization has workbooks/worksheets for a wide variety of mental health concerns. Clinical Research …

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Mental Health Coping Toolkit

WEBThis page began as the COVID-19/Mental Health Coping Toolkit, and it was created to pull together resources to help people cope during a really difficult time. Pandemic …

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Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis by Ashley L. Peterson

WEBMaking Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Understanding the DSM-5 aims to cut through the misinformation, stigma, and assumptions that surround mental illness and …

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Inaccurate & Damaging Mental Illness Stereotypes

WEBIncompetence. Another common stereotype is that people with mental illness are incompetent, unable to work or function independently, and need others to …

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A Brief History of Stigma

WEBA Brief History of Stigma explores the past and present of stigma to give a solid basis to examine strategies to reduce stigma and critically evaluate their …

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The Stigma Effect: How to Fight Mental Illness Stigma Effectively

WEBThe book outlines three broad types of anti-stigma approaches: protest, education, and contact. These may be informed by different agendas depending on …

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Political Advocacy to Challenge Mental Illness Stigma

WEBPolitical Advocacy to Challenge Mental Illness Stigma. November 30, 2021. A lot of us in the mental health blogging world are already engaged in advocacy in …

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Stop the Stigma: Let's Change Attitudes About Mental Illness

WEBIn some rather surprising statistics from 2008, 55% of Canadians said they would be unlikely to marry someone with a mental illness, 46% saw mental illness as an excuse …

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"Behavioral Health": A Reflection of Structural Stigma

WEBBehavioral health problems include substance abuse or misuse, alcohol and drug addiction, serious psychological distress, suicide, and mental and substance use …

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The Benefits of Peer Support for Mental Illness

WEBCentre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) identified key characteristics of effective peer support programs. These include: effective training and supervision …

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The Mental Status Exam (MSE) in Psychiatry

WEBA brief test like the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) or Folstein Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) includes basic questions like what day/month/year it is, …

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What We Can Learn from the Medicine Wheel

WEBThe medicine wheel is used by certain North American Indigenous peoples to tie together culture, traditional knowledge, health, and healing. Traditionally, it was …

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Applying Spoon Theory to Living with Mental Illness

WEBIf illness is impairing your concentration, tasks that require focus are going to take more mental energy. Yes, reading can use up spoons! Dealing with stressors can …

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A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms

WEBAlexithymia: an inability to identify and describe one’s emotions; considered to be a personality trait. Anhedonia: an inability to experience pleasure. Anosognosia: …

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Mental Illness Stigma and Pathologizing Normal Experiences

WEBMarch 1, 2018. Mental illness stigma comes from many places and in many forms. Stigma often invalidates the experience of those of us with mental illness. One way this can …

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The Social Factors that Can Shape Mental Illness Experiences

WEBBeliefs that mental illness represents weakness, not trying hard enough, not being positive enough, not being good enough, or being unpredictable, frightening, …

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The Role of Benzodiazepines in Managing Mental Illness

WEBFebruary 7, 2022. Benzodiazepines, or benzos, are a class of medications that act as central nervous system depressants. They’re used for a variety of different purposes, but …

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What Do You See In The Mirror

WEBWhen we as humans look at the reflection in the mirror, we’re seeing a blend of what our eyes tell us, what our minds expect to see, and what our inner critic tells us …

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Benefits of Universal Basic Income for People with Mental Illness

WEBUBI may help to prevent mental illness to some extent by influencing the social determinants of health. The stress associated with poverty is an important risk …

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