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5 Ways To Manage Bipolar With Lifestyle Changes
Bipolar disorder is nothing to mess around with. The highs can feel good but are dangerous. The lows, well the lows aren’t anything you...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Reach Out And Touch Someone: The Importance Of Companionship For Mental Health
We live in a digital world. Email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… This is fantastic technology and it lets us connect with people across...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20222 min read
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Can Pets Help Relieve Depression?
“Pets offer an unconditional love that can be very helpful to people with depression,” says Ian Cook, MD, a psychiatrist and director of...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Trauma And Addiction: Is It A Never Ending Cycle?
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Laurell K. Hamilton,...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Keeping Up Appearances: Why You Hide What's Really Going On
“Good morning, how are you?” “Doing great, thanks! And you?” It’s our ritual. Say good morning, reply that everything is great and keep...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Help! Someone I Love Has A Mental Illness
Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorder, OCD, ADHD and so on. These words...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Listening And The Art Of Communication: 6 Steps To Being Heard
How often are we focused so much on getting our ideas and needs heard that we forget to listen? Think of a time when the person you were...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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How Art Therapy Can Help People With Bipolar Disorder
Guest Blog by Jennifer Scott Bipolar disorder affects millions of Americans, yet the many different treatments available work differently...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20222 min read
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Only "Yes" Means Yes: Protect Yourself From Sexual Violence
Sexual assault on school campuses has received a lot of attention in the press lately. That doesn’t mean that the number of rapes is...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Mental Health Effects of Sexual Abuse
Awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual abuse has recently surged in the media following such events as the #MeToo movement and...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20224 min read
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Bring on the Joy!!!
Honestly, this has been a long week and it’s only Wednesday! Who else is with me?!? If it's just me, that is okay too. Today the focus...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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Fireworks can be scary
Happy 4th of July!! This is a day with a lot of celebrations, including BBQs, picnics, fireworks, swimming, and time together with...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jul 4, 20221 min read
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How is your crop?
I know that we discuss perspective a lot but hang with me. We are now halfway through 2022, let that sink in for a minute. 😯 Did you go...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Sum Sum Summertime!
It's officially Summertime!!!! Who is ready to have fun?!?!?! I still think as kid this was the best time of the year as it seemed all...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jun 15, 20221 min read
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Blessing or Burden
I know you love a good story, so here is one from the other day: I went to the grocery store and it was pretty uneventful until it was...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jun 8, 20221 min read
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Magical Mondays
How many times have you said I am going to start that thing on Monday? I think we have all done this, and probably more than once! What...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Reflection
Tis the season of new beginnings and endings. It is graduation time, end of school year, and transitions to the next grades. This...
Bay Area Mental Health
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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Why Are the Holidays So Stressful?
Look at that! We have arrived back to holiday season once more. For most of us, Thanksgiving is now a memory and the march toward the...
Bay Area Mental Health
Nov 27, 20213 min read
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You Aren't Broken: Surviving And Thriving Through It All
I once told my mother that she was a daisy. She said she wasn’t pleased because daisies are simple. I disagree. Daisies can grow in...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20212 min read
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You Are Not Your Diagnosis
A diagnosis is just a label – it doesn’t define you Ever wonder about how true the statement “You are what you eat” is? It kind of...
Bay Area Mental Health
Oct 7, 20215 min read
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