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78Understanding and Supporting Someone with Mental Illness - advice from multiple perspectives
Advice to those who have a friend or family member with mental illenss and want to support, help, or simply just understand them. Includes advice and resources from the perspective of a sufferer, supporter, and student of mental illness. Focuses on Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and ADD.
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79Crazymakers in Your Life
Some friends build you up, celebrate your successes and mourn with you when you are sad. They are compassionate, caring and almost always an absolute joy to be with. And there are friends of another type. They have no peace, and their turbulence...
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86Crazy in the Family; Children of the Mentally Ill
Just as there's a wide range of mental illnesses, there are as many children and adult children of a mentally ill parent who have suffered without a voice. It may come as a surprise that many mentally ill people have "normal" lives on the outside;...
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84Trypophobia - A Fear of Holes
I confess! I have suffered from this phobia (Trypophobia) since early childhood. I remember feeling utterly compelled to pick apart my corn flakes at breakfast and crush my grandmothers dried seedpods in her pot-pourri but it was only recently that...
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89How to Tell if You Are Psychotic - - What Does Psychotic Mean?
You may be wondering if you are psychotic if you found this page. If you are reading this, chances are you are not psychotic because only about 3% of all people experience psychosis. Psychosis is characterized by loss of reality in some way,...
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78Holy Surrender: When Faith Was All I Had Left
Do you know what it means to completely surrender your will to God? I do, and I lead a free and happy life today because of it.
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77Mothers Doing the Unthinkable: Understanding Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a severe mental disorder in which a parent, typically the mother, feigns symptoms of illness or injury in her child in order to gain attention for herself. This article discusses how to identify Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, how to treat it and what may cause it.
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72Coping With Stigma
Videos by and about people who are thriving with mental illness are featured in order to promote recovery from mental illness and highlight ways to cope with the stigma of mental illness. Inspire and encourage others by sharing your story - written or video - with others.
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92Living & Dealing With a Bipolar Mother
A true story based on my experience living with a bipolar mother. Contains graphic content.
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82Alcoholism
Alcohol problem varies in so many ways and it starts from a very mild scale of abuse to life threatening which makes an individual dependent of alcohol. You see,this is not just about drinking beer or taking a glass of scotch,whiskey or brandy,it...
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