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The Ugly Truth About Mental Health Stigma

Stop Abuse Campaign

Shocking Barriers Killing Our Mental Health. Mental health can be a very traumatizing thing to open up about due to the stigma surrounding it. Seeking mental health help can almost feel like admitting that something is wrong with you. Little known facts about mental health. It’s not our fault.

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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

Social Work Blog

Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. Storytelling can be part of the healing process in one’s mental health journey. My concern is not unwarranted.

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Resources to Know During Suicide Prevention Awareness Month 2023

My Brains Not Broken

SAMHSA’s National Helpline The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) national helpline can provide more helpful support not only to people struggling with their mental health but also substance abuse (or both).

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Does Anyone Care? Shocking Barriers Killing Our Mental Health

Stop Abuse Campaign

When it comes to our mental health, every person has different resources for managing it and coping. Adverse Childhood Experiences may challenge a person’s mental health every day, from waking up to falling asleep. No doubt these are harming our nation’s mental health. The current mental health system.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Read more about KVC’s mental health treatment services here.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S.

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