Mental Disorders

Recovering from Mental Illness? Be Your Own Best Friend

The bad/sad news: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults — approximately 57.7 million Americans — experience a mental health disorder in a given year. One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness. The good news: Between 70 and 90 percent of the individuals who are treated for their …

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Do You Know These Three Solutions to Heal Mental Illness?

3 ‘simple’ solutions to heal from mental illness Posted Sep 20, 2013 Source: Stress is relative. It’s all about context. When I was involuntarily committed to the psych ward, my stressors were unlike any I encounter today. So were the solutions. It’s 1993. I’m lying in a hospital bed under the ubiquitous blue blanket. A pale, rather humorless …

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9 Damaging Myths about Mental Illness

By Elements Behavioral Health posted on December 12, 2012 in Mental Health Thanks to news stories, books, and movies, the terms “mentally ill” and “crazy” can be used interchangeably in the minds of far too many people. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Mental illness encompasses a vast array of disorders including ADHD, depression, and …

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