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Addressing Veterans’ Mental Health: An Overview

Relias

Before we discuss how your organization can help this population, let’s review the most common mental health conditions that veterans face after they leave the military: PTSD, depression, and suicidality. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) An estimated 7% of veterans are diagnosed with PTSD in their lifetimes.

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Finding Help on Self-Injury Awareness Day in Chicago

Gateway Foundation

In some cases, they can also lead to cutting and self-inflicted harm. Self-injury is more common than many people realize, mainly because those who struggle with it tend to hide this behavior. It’s essential to bring awareness to this topic, inform others about it and offer help to those dealing with self-harm.

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Mental Health Check-in

Abuse Survivor

I was triggered into a depressive episode after having a severe infection. Even as I practiced the coping skills that I had learned I felt myself sink longer and lower into the depression. I think anyone would under my circumstances of life plus debilitating PTSD symptoms. I do not get a break and relief is fleeting.

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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

Dr Gemma Sharkey (UK) Women Increasing Hope for Those with Depression and Anxiety Professor Bronwyn Graham, (Australia) found in 2013 that women with anxiety, who had low levels of the hormone oestrogen, were less likely to get better – and stay better – following psychological treatment.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Frequent thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

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The Impact of Collective Trauma and How Behavioral Health Organizations Can Help

Relias

Individuals affected by collective trauma may also exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or other mental health disorders. Individual healing from collective trauma is a deeply personal journey that requires self-awareness, self-compassion, and resilience.

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Suicide Prevention: How to Help When Social Determinants Spiral

Relias

As a care professional in the human services industry, you’re most likely familiar with the common risk factors and warning signs for suicide, but there are other important factors to consider, like social determinants of health (SDOH) which play a large role in substance use disorders (SUDs) and depression. Compared with the general U.S.