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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.

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

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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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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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 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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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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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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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 effectiveness. It also …

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The Stigma Effect: How to Fight Mental Illness Stigma …

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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How We Talk About Mental Illness: Definitions vs. Connotations

WEBThe APA Dictionary has a definition for “mental disorder,” and lists “mental illness” as a synonym: “any condition characterized by cognitive and emotional …

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The Role of Heredity in Mental Illness

WEBGenetic factors can account for different percentages of the overall risk. Huntingdon’s disease is all genetic. Among mental illnesses, schizophrenia, bipolar …

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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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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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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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Is Mental Illness More of a Reason or an Excuse

WEBMental illness can also twist our own thinking so that we start limiting ourselves with excuses but justifying those limits as being bona fide reasons. …

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Ableism: The Assumptions People Make About Disability

WEBAn article on the Center for Disability Rights website describes ableism this way: “Ableism is a set of beliefs or practices that devalue and discriminate against …

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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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Fork Theory: How the Anti-Spoons Affect Mental Illness

WEBIn 2014, the Thing of Things blog described a fork theory for mental illness: “Forks work somewhat like spoons, in that you have to pay varying amounts for tasks. …

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