Category: community mental health
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Support Mandatory Vacations!
You guys know I love when thing happen organically. Something wonderful happened today that gave me hope! Covid has had the worse triggering effect on people. Social media, conservative news, sometimes just the news in general. We have Covid. We had the election which was totally nuts. Then the capital riot. Now we have Covid…
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Why we need to do better with Mental Health. We need to listen to John Oliver.
@LastWeekTonight Why we need to do better with Mental Health. We need to listen to John Oliver. I believe this. I believe that every day we wake up and we do the best we can. I don’t think any sane person wakes up and says “Hey I’m going to be a terrible person today.” People…
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How to Love an Addict
How to Love an Addict by Darcy Flierl Addiction. We’ve made progress over the last decade. The stigma is decreasing and we are openly discussing it. Once upon a time, if your parent, spouse, or child suffered from alcohol or drug abuse, it was the family secret. Now, I talk to people every day who…
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Managing caregiver stress and preventing burnout.
“For stress of any significant duration – from a few days to a few months or years, as happens in real life – all aspects of immunity went downhill. Thus long-term or chronic stress, through too much wear and tear, can ravage the immune system
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Stuart City Hall 5 PM monday. Support our local music.
To the Stuart CIty Commission: I thought it was to be a nice quiet afternoon in the hood and I could do something like read a book, finish watching my movie, clean the closet. Around here it just never ends. Now we have people threatening to sue over noise and the City Commission is caving.…
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Alzheimer’s and “Still Alice” : Caring for those who can’t care for themselves.
@Gayle_Harrell @FLGovScott @joenegronfl I’m sending this blog post to my state rep, rick scott and my state senator. None of these people actually care about anyone especially older people who are ill. They are under some kind of delusion that these people can have help. In the case of Ms Harrell she thinks people can…
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The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life.
The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life. Just file this under “Kick me in the head.” As well as others, like people who don’t want their houses to float away in Miami, or their drinking water to be all salty, or just us folks here in Stuart/Jensen Beach that…
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Jail is the new state mental hospital. Where are the diversion programs?
@joenegronfl @MaryLynnMagar Jail is the new state mental hospital. and Florida is one of the worst places. If its “our money” we’d like to keep it and not waste it on housing people. We need a real solution. Stop wasting our money on a solution that doesn’t work and hurts people. Here is a TC…
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June is educate your legislators in mental illness month. I said so!
@joenegronfl who said http://fcir.org/2012/07/26/florida-slips-even-lower-in-mental-health-funding/ “More specifically, state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, advocated cuts to so-called soft services, which include mental health and drug-addiction programs, because many of these services address what Negon views as “a lack of willpower, a lack of discipline, a lack of character.” Negron was the chair of appropriations for health and human services…
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