Friday, March 29, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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If your job tends to deplete your energy, take a few mini breaks to change your environment. Try going for short walks around the building or getting fresh air! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services. 

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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Being frustrated or angry is a normal human emotion. Consider channeling that emotion in a productive way!  @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services. 

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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Positive self talk is a useful tool to reorganize your thoughts. Try it! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services. 

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Friday #MentalHealth #MythBuster: #OCD Can Be Cured On Its Own

#OCD is a type of anxiety disorder that can cause distress in a person

#OCD involves persistent, recurrent thoughts, ideas and images

#Trying to ignore the thoughts, ideas and images feel impossible to the sufferer

#OCD involves repetitive behaviors that are driven by the obsessional thoughts
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day


Rehabilitation is real and possible for those with mental illness. The sky’s the limit! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services.

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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Happiness can be found in the little things. Try to refocus your thinking on the small pleasures in life! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Friday #MentalHealth #MythBuster: The Mentally Ill Don’t Work!

#People with mental illness are gainfully employed throughout the United States

#People with mental illness have all types of diagnosable disorders

#People with mental illness are not lazy, rather they are ill

#Not all people with mental illness look sick

#Mental illness manifests in varying degrees of severity
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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If you haven’t found anything pleasurable lately make a list of things you like and try one of those things today! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Mental Health Tip Of The Day

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If you haven’t nurtured your own emotional needs today take time out to do so! @ashatarry

*These mentions are used simply as tips to give empowering thoughts to others. These tips are not used as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness or otherwise. Consult your physician if you need mental health services.

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Friday #MentalHealth #MythBuster: Personality Disorders Aren’t Mental Disorders!

#Personality Disorders are real mental health disorders

#Personality Disorders are formed in childhood/adolescence

#Personality Disorders become realized in adulthood

#Adults with personality disorders can be very challenging to treat in psychotherapy
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

1st Thursdays

"Thursdays Change: Bringing Change-makers to You!" 

Guest: Lori Flowers

Segment: "Triple Negative Breast Cancer Day, Current Treatment Research"
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Monday, March 4, 2013

Is Conversation Changing For The Better?

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Children are wonderful people to watch explore the world. They are typically in awe of everyday things. They see the world in unfamiliar ways. As they learn language sometimes we learn language all over again with them. We try to explain what words mean and how to define them in simple terms. In doing this, we can find ourselves, at times, caught in a quandary of what words actually mean and how to use them.
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Friday #Mental Health #MythBuster: Everybody Is Bipolar!

#Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder whereby people experience distinctive periods and cycles of high and low moods

#By some people’s judgment, a change in emotions is viewed as bipolar but that’s not necessarily true

#Bipolar Disorder is one of the most common mental health disorders along with Depression and Schizophrenia

#People can experience happiness, sadness, joy, irritability all in the same day and not be classified as having Bipolar Disorder
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