Mental illness
What causes mental illness? (Part 2): Risk factors
A closer look at what risk factors are, and how they work in mental disorders. Part 2 of a look at "causes" of mental disorders.
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Mental illness
What causes mental illness? (Hint: it's not “thinking too much”)
The short answer is, “Nobody really knows.” The long answer? That's the rest of the post.
Healthcare
What's the difference: psychiatrist, psychologist & shrink?
This is a question that comes up pretty frequently, and someone just asked it again here on the blog a few days ago. Psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, shrink. To-may-to, to-mah-to? Or completely different concepts? My suspicion is most people have an idea that they're all different, they just can&
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How people answer this question might predict their mental health outcomes
How the way people with long term medical conditions answer a simple question can point to how well they will do over time.u
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Are you aware of these 5 problems with our cure-focused mindset in mental illness?
Cures are wonderful things. Except when they're not. Here are 5 ways a cure-focused mindset can be harmful, and why rising above it is a better way.
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Rise Above It: The New Face of Our Own Minds
Welcome to Rise Above It! my blog on mental health and illness and recovery. Here's what you can expect.
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Why Rise Above It?
Why Rise Above It exists
Specific mental disorders
What it's like to have dementia
by The Prime Minister's Office Because in the last six months, it's been more scary than fun. You see, Grandma has been kind of forgetful. And this isn't your regular forgetting either. She's been forgetting even the names of her own children
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WMHD 2013
Today is World Mental Health Day 2013: "Mental Health and Older People."
Healthcare
Coming Soon: World Mental Health Day 2013—Mental health and older people
Did you know there is a World Mental Health Day? You didn't? It's every year, on October 10. That's in two days' time, on Thursday. And the theme this year? MENTAL HEALTH AND OLDER PEOPLE. by gaspi *yg So, to commemorate that, I&
Mental illness
5 ways mental disorders are like asthma
Mental disorders seem abstract to many people, but they're really not. In this post I help you better understand them: they're like asthma in at least 5 ways!
Depression
3 unique things about depression in Africans
Hello! I've been talking about depression for awhile now (see here, here and here), and I'm all set to move on to another subject. Not because there isn't more to be said, because there definitely is. (I mean, I haven't even said