Recovery

Co-occurring Diagnosis

I thought I would talk about co-occurring diagnosis today. I have been researching the topic in one of my psychology classes. The statistics are very high for the co-morbidity of […]

New Speaking Opportunity

I talked to the Chief Judge of the Speech Contest I particpated in a couple of weeks ago. I told you that I spoke about self-injuring. She is an extremely […]

New Blog on Mental Health

I found a relatively new blog on mental health. It is found at http://www.uglypin.blogspot.com:80/ Go check it out. She is out to spread the awareness of the stigma and fight it. […]

Self-injuring- getting the word out

Wednesday I gave a speech on self-injuring for Toastmasters. The difference for this speech is that it was for an International Contest. I had practiced a few times by reading […]

Suicide

There has been three suicides in my small town of 400 in the last two weeks. That is terrible. Suicide is a terrible way to die. The rates of suicide […]

GRE testing

I took my GRE test Monday. It was hard. It took three hours with only a ten minute break after the writing session. I had taken a practice test at […]

Self-injuring behavior

I have talked of this topic before. I am going to talk of it again. I lost my best friend the night before last because of cutting. She was cutting […]

Stretching the Mind in Recovery

This is going to be a very stressful week. I have one week left to prepare for my GRE. GRE – Graduate Records Exam. I have to take this test […]

Jed Foundation

The Jed Foundation is offering a $2,000 scholarship  for a video  based on a current student’s experience  with mental health and breaking the stigma and dealing with the issues. The […]

New beginnings

Here is a New Year. A new beginning in many ways. This country has had some setbacks. This whole world has had some. But we can still be going on […]