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World Mental Health Day in Review
Read this quick post: World Mental Health Day: Key Points From Social Media | Life and Suicide Then tell me, tell each other: what do you think?Filed under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: coping, depression,...
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Good “of the Day” #1: What Would YOU Tell the BBC?
I got some great suggestions for this series’ title. Thanks, everybody! I came up with a couple myself, but I’ve chosen one offered by mercedesmosaics: “a manager of mine would end our weekly meetings...
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No Ghettos For Mental Health! My Stand.
Some history to start: many of us don;t know what “ghetto” really means, where the word came from. As with many words, the history is not entirely clear. It’s well established, though, that many cities...
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Good “of the Day” #2 : A Success Tip
People Who Get It Do you?Filed under: Care TIps, Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: advice, coping, life, Nurse, quote, Success, work
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A More Positive Trip to the ER: Surviving Stigma
I’m an experienced psychiatric nurse. I’ve heard thousands of ER stories from patients over the years. Stories about the medical clearance process before admission, treatment for medical issues ranging...
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When a Hospital Fires Patient in Need, Who’s Responsible?
Hospital evicts 800-pound man Most nurses have met the patient who gets in their own way, makes themselves impossible to help, an endless litany of excuses and rationalizations, how it’s everyone...
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I’ll grow into it: Making the best of a bad day
Fame comes at a price, and sometimes we have to make the best of it: I’ll grow into itFiled under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: coping, Mental health, mental illness, stress, Success, work
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Good “of the Day…” #5: Be your own hero!
Thanks to @Bipolartohappy for this link: Be your own hero | bipolartohappinessFiled under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: advice, coping, life, Mental health, mental illness, quote, success.attitude
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Mental Health: Why Should I Be Afraid of Talking About My Depression?
I spent twenty years with occasional severe depression before I told most people anything about it, anything at all. It nearly killed me. It would have been a safe bet at the time that it would kill...
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Good “of the Day” #6: Create something today
Sometimes – let’s be honest, usually – we hesitate too much. We wait for perfection before we try anything new. Perfection never happens in the real world: it’s an abstract idea not found in nature,...
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Good “of the Day” #8: It’s not about being the best…
It’s not about being the best… Yesterday Attitude matters!Filed under: Healthy Mind Tagged: attitude, coping, Failure, life, progress, Success, work
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A Nurse with Mental Illness: My Story
I’m an odd duck, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. In an age of specialists, I’m an anti-specialist. These days most people function in tiny specialty boxes. Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “Think...
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Good “of the Day” #9: Damn Those Odds
Some things are too important to accept defeat or give up. Only you can choose what they are, and only you can stick to them when it gets hard. Persistence is about an important an ingredient to...
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It’s OK not to be OK
It’s OK not to be perfect: Who Is? Check out It’s O K not to be OK – and please, let me know what it tells you, what it makes you feel, what story it triggers in your mind. Much of my blogging comes...
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Good “of the Day” #11: Is Your Reaction Reasonable? Are You Sure?
Check this one out: How Bad Is It? Ring any bells?Filed under: Care TIps, Healthy Mind Tagged: advice, attitude, coping, life, mind, Success
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Good “of the Day” #13 : No Superstition For Me!
Always Smile Yes?Filed under: Fun, Healthy Mind Tagged: attitude, Fun, happy, humor, laugh, smile, Success
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Good Wisdom “of the Day” #19 : Seeing a rainbow
Seeing a rainbowFiled under: Healthy Mind Tagged: attitude, life, quote, Success, wisdom
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Good “of the Day” #21 : Fair Enough?
Fair enough? Compassion Filed under: Healthy Mind Tagged: advice, coping, life, quote, Success
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Good “of the Day” # 24 : Experience is…
«Experience is the teacher of all things.»— Julius Caesar Source: Experience is the teacher of all things.Filed under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: advice, experience, grow, learn, life, quote, Success
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Good “of the Day” # 26: Why Adult Coloring Is Such A Hit
“As I write this, ten of the top fifty books on Amazon’s Best Seller list are adult coloring books. Six of those are in the top twenty-five…” Source: Why Adult Coloring Is Such A Hit, and Why You Need...
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