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Returning to Writing With a Renewed Focus

My Brains Not Broken

When I started My Brain’s Not Broken, I wanted to document my journey living with anxiety and depression. I didn’t understand the number of ways that anxiety and depression impacted me. But the other day I remembered something that, time and again, has empowered me both in the mental health space, and as a human being.

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Social Media’s Affects on Mental Health and Tips to Support Your Child’s Mental Wellness Online

CCRC

Just as important as our physical health is our mental health, yet many children and adults in the U.S. dont address their mental health concerns. May is Mental Health Awareness Month; its a time to bring attention to mental health conditions and ways to support our psychological well-being for overall health.

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Prenatal stress and children’s behavior: What expectant parents should know

The Child and Family Corp

Key takeaways for caregivers Mental health support during pregnancy benefits both parents and children. Effects persist independently of post-pregnancy mental health. Providing accessible mental health care during pregnancy could help prevent children’s behavior challenges. What did the research find?

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Placing social workers in mental health trusts can help tackle out of area placements, says report

Community Care

Integrating local authority social workers within NHS mental health trusts can help reduce the number of “harmful” out of area hospital placements (OAPs), a report has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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‘I was close to unable to work’: social workers on disclosing mental health struggles at work

Community Care

To express an interest or tell us what you’d like to see covered next, email us at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com Struggling with mental health can be a crippling and deeply isolating experience. said it had “collapsed” But mental health struggles are not always tied solely to the job.

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How to help children manage stress caused by California wildfires

CCRC

Whether theyre evacuated or simply hearing the sirens and smelling smoke, the experience can create feelings of anxiety and fear in children. The stress of the California wildfires can be overwhelming for children, who cannot understand the chaos.

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How to Help a Child with Social Anxiety

All For Kids

How To Help a Child With Social Anxiety By Susan J. Wood (Updated Month, Day, Year) Social anxiety is a common experience among people of all ages. After COVID-19s stay-at-home orders, your child might be experiencing heightened social anxiety with the return to the classroom. What Is Social Anxiety?

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