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83When You Call the Crisis Hotline
It's a crisis call, and a real one this time, not someone asking about the open hours of the local drugstore. What happens when you call the crisis hotline? Read this article to find out.
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80How to Diagnose Mental Illness
Don't try this at home! Diagnosing a mental illness takes training and experience. You can assess your symptoms and come up with a good hypothesis as to what's wrong, but mental health professionals spend...
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69Psychiatric Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Crisis Intervention. Suicide prevention. Mental Illness. Ever wonder what goes on behind the doors of a suicide hotline? Learn what happens from the moment a call comes in until the person in crisis is safe and on the road to healing.
6 comments61The Writing Group
Well, now it gets personal. I joined a support group for people with life threatening illness. Look at me, the crisis clinician who needs support. Well, I'm human too, right? Some people act as if helpers...
6 comments66A Day at the Crisis Service
First, take a deep breath. Then I get in my car and drive the half-hour it takes me to get to work. Most of the time I don't think about what awaits me until I am about ten minutes away. Before that I listen...
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71Inside Anxiety
This is a personal account of my experience with anxiety, what caused it, how it feels and what I am doing to manage it. I am diagnosed with a deadly illness, because of which my resources are depleted. In...
2 comments69Asperger's ABCs
Asperger's syndrome (AS) is one of what are called autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Asperger’s is different from other autism disorders in that there are no delays in language development or acquisition of...
7 comments71Asperger's Resources
If something or someone has led you to believe that you could be diagnosed with Asperger's, seek the opinion of a professional. This is because many other, sometimes simpler issues can mimic Asperger's. If you...
2 comments63How to Avoid a Holiday Crisis
Depression, anxiety, anger, frustration - the dark side of the holidays. It's bad enough that the days are short and dark, and the dark itself darkest this time of year. Here are some tips on avoiding the...
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