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11 Steps to Help Someone With Suicidal Thoughts

11 Steps to Help Someone With Suicidal Thoughts

If someone you loved was feeling suicidal would you know what to do? I am hardly ever prepared, even as a trained trauma therapist, to tackle the responsibility of helping someone who is suicidal. Why? Because any wrong move or wrong advice/suggestion could do nothing 

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Mental Health Awareness Week – October 6-12 2013

Mental Health Awareness Week – October 6-12 2013

Hello everyone: I wanted to invite you to spend a week at my sister-site (PsychCentral/Caregivers) to read amazing stories about people nationally and internationally experiencing mental illness within their family. I have amazing followers all over and after contacting them, they decided to engage in 

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Assisted Suicide and Mental Health: Opening The Discussion

Assisted Suicide and Mental Health: Opening The Discussion

How would you feel if an individual stated the following to you? I want to commit suicide using assisted suicide when I turn 56 because I have severe Multiple Sclerosis and major depression, my life is over. Being the recipient of such a statement changed 

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Suicidal Thoughts: Know Signs and What To Do

Suicidal Thoughts: Know Signs and What To Do

Families are quite unaware of what leads their loved one(s) to consider suicide. Suicidal ideation is the act of entertaining thoughts of taking your life. For the most part, depression alone can leave a detrimental mark on the psyche.   Thoughts of suicide often masquerade 

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Grief & loss: When seasons change

Grief & loss: When seasons change

        A very real part of living with or dealing with an individual with a severe or untreated mental health disorder is loss and grief. For the rest of us, unexpected change can usher in feelings of loss and grief.   Did 

Social and cultural responsibility:  Loving thy neighbor

Social and cultural responsibility: Loving thy neighbor

Hello everyone: I wanted to post a few comments on the late and honorable Mr. Rodney King. As you know, we lost a sweet and modest person on June 17, 2012 to what has been defined as a drowning. Although Mr. King was notoriously known as the motorist who 

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