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
