MQ Mental Health

MARCH 1, 2024

Some people might think a mental illness gets diagnosed and then remains one condition for a person’s life. However mental illnesses can shift and change throughout life. Just like clothing doesn’t fit forever, neither does a mental health diagnosis. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 4, 2022

If you’ve ever felt concerned about your mental health, you’re not alone. Mental health is an increasingly important issue in our society. Roughly 1 in 5 adults report experiencing mental health problems each year. Our individual experiences are what shape our mental and emotional health.

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tanatswa Chikarua, founder of the Ndinewe Foundation, a mental health organisation in Zimbabwe, is currently pursuing an MPhil in Basic and Translational Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. In this insightful blog, Tanatswa explains the value of listening to those with mental health conditions in the world of mental health research.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 26, 2022

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The Stop Abuse Campaign persists in its efforts to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “depression is a common illness worldwide, with an estimated 3.8% What does depression feel like?

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

In my long and unavoidable experience with mental illnesses, I at first felt hopeful. I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. I was roomed with another girl who had behavioral issues because of the lack of attention her parents were giving her, she explained to me as her lashing out.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

However, in the past year or so, I began feeling more overwhelmed with work and started making small mistakes on a regular basis. I could feel that something was different with me. Leading me to feeling depressed, tired and sad. Same feeling with my personal life i.e. not being able to do everything and/or correctly.

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The book, He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons - a bereaved mother's view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge (2020), and the postcards with quotes from it, can be used in many ways to help students and practitioners to develop reflexiveness, empathy, and values-based practice. How could you do more? How do you know that?

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Alzheimer’s disease stigma refers to the negative perceptions, attitudes, emotions, and reactions related to Alzheimer’s disease (Corner & Bond, 2004; Werner & Heinik, 2008). What drives stigma reactions? My colleagues and I are finding that there are multiple signals for Alzheimer’s disease stigma. Stites, Milne, et al.,

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I told him I didn’t feel right. What do you want to do?” Why don’t you start by getting dressed?” I focused on breakfast and started to feel myself come to life again, then fade away into lethargy. It would feel so good to end my existence, to pretend that I never was. he asked in reply. the nurse told me.

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Psychological Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood and into your senior years. Over the course of your life, as you transition through milestones and encounter challenges, you may experience unmanageable stress and mental ill-health where your thinking, mood and behaviour could be affected.

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 29, 2023

This conflict can generate feelings of internal pressure and a struggle to reconcile personal authenticity with familial acceptance. Sarita Trawick is a member of NASW-OR: Breaking the stigma: ADHD can make rejection feel even worse The Sentinel-News But there is a misconception that people with ADHD lack the ability to pay attention.

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