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Be yourself, Books, Media, Personal

LARB Interview: Writing as mental health practice.

March 30, 2019

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I didn’t wake up to the fact I was struggling with my mental health until I couldn’t write anything. I loved …

March 30, 2019

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Why peer support is so damn useful for mental illness recovery.

October 3, 2017

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We could also call this: Recovery is like rowing. You’ll be bad at both until you’re not. And then you’ll just push …

October 3, 2017

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Mental Health Care, Personal, System Transformation

So you want to work in mental health…

April 8, 2017

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I was part of a panel discussion at the University of Toronto recently on community engagement work in the mental health sector. …

April 8, 2017

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Overcoming stigma when blogging about health and illness.

November 11, 2016

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I recently gave a keynote presentation at Diabetes Linkup, a conference for Type 2 Diabetes bloggers, on the topic of overcoming stigma …

November 11, 2016

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Five big take-aways from MedX 2015

October 13, 2015

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Stanford’s Medicine X conference was definitely the best health-related event of any kind I’ve ever attended. Launched by Dr. Larry Chu and an …

October 13, 2015

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Mental Health Care, Personal

Counselor Troi is not Scalable

August 26, 2015

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In anticipation of this year’s Medicine X Conference, some reflections on one of the stickiest problems in mental healthcare innovation… In less …

August 26, 2015

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You don't have to listen to your brain's reasons!

You don't have to listen to your brain's reasons! This isn't different. You know it was going to pull this trick. Where do you want to go? What do you want to give your time and energy to?

#mindfulness #recovery #mentalhealthquote #mentalfitness #stress #reasons #thinking #psychology #addiction #anxiety #fear #control #compulsions #habits

This also applies if it did happen. You can do stu

This also applies if it did happen. You can do stuff differently up there!

#thinking #ruminating #brain #mindfulness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthnotes #quote #reminder #psychology #therapy #recovery #cognitive #acceptance #fear #anxiety #control #writing #brain #writersofinstagram

From last night's Twitch stream exploring examples

From last night's Twitch stream exploring examples of Exposure Therapy vs ERP vs ACT. No actual cookies were harmed in the making of this theoretical example. Obviously, in reality, you would gather up every crumb of that cookie and eat it (while contacting the closeness of death and the wonders of life in that moment).

#mindfulness #ERP #ACT #recovery #therapy #psychology #science #cookies #Twitch #acceptance #death #stoicism #reality #life #mentalfitness #fear #anxiety

Don't turn into a ruminating centipede. It'll feel

Don't turn into a ruminating centipede. It'll feel like you're going somewhere. If you just think a little more about it, you'll finally solve it! But not really...

Illustration by @pupik.love

#ruminating #illustration #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #thinking #mindful #mindfulness #happiness #psychology #therapy #mentalhealthart

Don't get stuck on the smelly pile of crap this we

Don't get stuck on the smelly pile of crap this week. Yes, it smells. Yes, it's a crap disorder. Yes, you hate it and want to chase solutions to make it go away. But focus on changing the big systems producing the pile of crap symptoms you hate. What's feeding that system?

#mentalfitness #mentalhealth #Twitch #psychology #recovery #anxiety #intrusivethoughts #fear #depression #diagram #mentalhealthnotes #science #TOOLKIT

Closure smosure. We have experiences that are pain

Closure smosure. We have experiences that are painful. We can touch that pain, be honest about it. It can be painful and we can do things in the present that matter to us. It can be painful and we can make choices in the present that align with what we value, that create and build the things we want to see in the world.

#recovery #regret #fear #pain #mentalhealthnotes #mentalhealth #psychology #mindfulness #emotions #community #closure #falsememory #guilt

You still trying to avoid human experiences? How's

You still trying to avoid human experiences? How's that working out for you?

#recovery #psychology #mentalhealth #therapy #mentalhealthquotes #ocd #pureo #fear #phobia #erp #mindfulness #mentalfitness #mentalhealthmatters

All of the stuff you're doing in your head: that's

All of the stuff you're doing in your head: that's practice. Whatever you're doing up there, you're getting skilled at that. What do you want to get skilled at today?

#mindfulness #recovery #mentalhealthnotes #mentalfitness #practice #judgment #nonjudgment #psychology #fitness #skill #focus #goals

You don't wait to feel strong before lifting weigh

You don't wait to feel strong before lifting weights. The strength comes after, and even then, you'll just keep on pursuing more exercises that make you feel weak, that make you sweat and gasp for breath. You go towards the difficult experience. You fuel that and support that. So why would you take the opposite approach with emotions?

#mentalfitness #emotions #mentalhealthnotes #psychology #sweat #fitness #recovery #weightlifting #failure #success #anxiety #socialanxiety #fear #depression #love #guilt #mindfulness

If I’m trying to be optimistic that good things

If I’m trying to be optimistic that good things will happen, I’ve actually thrown away any power I have. I’ll need things I don’t control to magically turn out in my favor. It’s a lottery mentality.

So I bring power back to me. I’m optimistic that I will learn and build skills to handle the dumpster fire in a shit storm that is this world. I will practice skills and nourish my needs so I’m prepared for whatever happens. I want challenging situations that don’t go “right” so I can learn to handle them. I’m optimistic about my capacity to try new things, to discover limits, to enforce boundaries, and make difficult changes that help me thrive in any situation.

#mentalhealth #happiness #optimism #positivethinking #lawofattraction #recovery #fear #anxiety #mentalhealthquotes #psychology #goals #fitness #sweat #challenges #life #reminder #mentalfitness

It is so useful to recognize how seemingly "normal

It is so useful to recognize how seemingly "normal" checking and controlling fuels the symptoms we hate. If you're struggling with things like derealization / depersonalization, or fears around sexuality, losing your mind, developing psychosis, and anything else that involves losing control of you and your identity, look broadly at how you interact with uncertainty in your life. The brain is simply being logical. If I react to uncertainty about a door lock, or an email, how can I not react to an uncertainty about my existence?! The time we spend on uncertainties that don't trouble us much is what causes the uncertainties that do trouble us.

#uncertainty #fear #anxiety #depersonalization #derealization #recovery #checking #YouTube #pureo #ruminating #realization #mentalhealth #mentalfitness #mentalhealthquotes #psychology

Our approach to mental health is so strange and ba

Our approach to mental health is so strange and backwards from everything else in the world. Nobody has ever become a better swimmer by avoiding the water, or gotten stronger by refusing to struggle with heavy things, or found success by avoiding the possibility of failure, or become a professional baker without baking one or two cookies that were not absolutely perfect.

#mentalhealth #recovery #mentalfitness #psychology #therapy #anxiety #pureo #mindfulness #fitness #sweat #quote #mentalhealthquote #fear #practice #success #failure

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RT @xamm0x: This rate is for voluntary asymptomatic testing on 58% of the school student and staff. Let that sink in.

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RT @ahmedhankir: The longer I work in psychiatry The more I realise that mental disturbances are largely due to psychosocial phenomena Po…

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RT @jenny_stevens: OK~deep breath~I wrote about my year in a psychiatric unit, my 20 year battle with anorexia, how poverty & homelessness…

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