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1st Person magazine ^New
Accounts by people who have had mental health issues. Also includes essays, opinions, and poetry pieces written by those suffering from mental health issues. Note: No new information added since early 2002.
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20 Tips to Tame Your Stress
Dr. Ponton lists 20 quick and easy tips to help calm your stress and help put you in a better mood. Curl up, get comfortable, and enjoy this article!
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Allcare Behavioral Health Services
We list free mental health resources and professional resources, such as the latest journal articles dealing with mental health and mental illnesses.
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An Introduction to Clinical Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention. Employing hypnosis is like using a magnifying glass to focus the rays of the sun. When our minds are concentrated and focused, we are able to use them more powerfully.

This informative article describes clinical hypnosis and how it can help you with many medical and mental health issues.
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Change Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In this quick article, discussion of change in relationships is discussed. How can a person overcome the problems when they leave an old relationship? How can a person recover from the anguish? Find out here.
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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?
Can a person acquire heart disease because of stress? It is true that stress is bad and it is harmful to a persons health in extremes. What damage can stress do? Relax, take a deep breath, and find out here.
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Emotional Competency
The site is dedicated developing the essential social skills to recognize, interpret, and respond constructively to emotions in yourself and others. It features an in-depth description and discussion of twenty-four distinct emotions.
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Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains comprehensive medical articles on mental disorders and conditions. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically and each entry details the definition, purpose, precautions, description, and external resources that can be used to obtain additional information about every condition
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Families in Business
Psychologist and family/business coach Kathy J. Marshack, Ph.D. writes about the psychological issues that face couples and families that work together. These issues include addiction, family disagreements and more.
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Getting Help for Procrastination ^{Top Rated}
Procrastination is a common issue amongst students and many adults. There are many who struggle with deadlines everyday, with the feeling of impending doom as the exam or project date looms. It is one of the largest problems seen in college counseling centers, and it is something nearly everyone has had to deal with at some point in their lives. This article describes strategies to help yourself overcome procrastination.

The first thing you have to know about procrastinating is that you should set your expectations realistically. It took you a lifetime to get to where you are today in terms of procrastination, so it's not something you can fix overnight. But it is something you can fix, all you need is the dedication to do so and the willingness to try something new.
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Helping a Family Member with a Mental Disorder
How can a person who loves someone with a mental disorder help them? There are surely anger issues, emotional overflow, and ways to compensate for the diagnosis of mental illness. What can a family member do about, especially those who do not know anything about the condition? Here is a good place to begin your search.
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Helping Children Deal with Anger
Children's anger presents challenges to parents and teachers committed to constructive, ethical, and effective child guidance. This article explores what we know about the components of children's anger, factors contributing to understanding and managing anger, and the ways teachers can guide children's expressions of anger.
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How to Choose a Competent Counselor
This article addresses the following questions: “How can I find a good counselor or psychotherapist?” “How do I know if my counselor is competent?” “What is supposed to happen in therapy?” “Can a therapist be incompetent without me realizing it?” “Is a psychologist the best therapist? Does a license make a difference?” Table of Contents: 1. Why I wrote this article 2. How to tell if a therapist is competent, or not First, you need to know what psychotherapy is, and what it isn't Second, you need to know how to find the answer in your own mind 3. What psychotherapy is--and why you need to know 4. The secret that you already know 5. How a good therapist makes you feel safe 6. The perfect therapist 7. Privacy: the essential ingredient 8. Non-judgmental acceptance: you deserve it 9. How to choose a therapist to call (a) referrals (b) qualifications 10. How you find out about the therapist 11. Therapist credentials: the truth revealed *Counselor knowledge, training, certification, skill, character, and relationship. 12. First contact. Watch out for these red flags! 13. Your first session: what should happen 14. Safety is in the details 15. Now what?
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Keep Stress at Bay: Striking A Balance
How can a person diminish stress and get the balance they need in their life? Dr. Martin states why we should not do it all, why we cannot do it all, and why do we expect to do it all. Take a breather and read this, you deserve it.
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Learn About Procrastination ^{Top Rated}
Procrastination is a common issue amongst students and many adults. There are many who struggle with deadlines everyday, with the feeling of impending doom as the exam or project date looms. It is one of the largest problems seen in college counseling centers, and it is something nearly everyone has had to deal with at some point in their lives. This article describes the roots of procrastination, while the second article describes strategies to help yourself overcome procrastination.
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Medscape's Psychiatry Home with Medline/DrugInfo Search
Medscape Content Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time. Some of Medscape's key features include: Original, professional medical content, including review articles, journal commentary, expert columns, patient education articles, book reviews, and more; More than 850 online CME activities; Conference Coverage: Thought leaders summarize key data and presentations from major medical meetings; The Internet's first primary-source medical journal, Medscape General Medicine; Selected daily professional medical news in your specialty from Reuters, Medscape Medical News, and medical news journal publishers; Physician Optimized MEDLINE; Free subscription to Medscape's MedPulse, a weekly email newsletter that highlights what's new in your specialty on Medscape; More than 125 medical journals and textbooks; Business, financial, managed care, and medical practice information; And more . . . The result is a medical Web site rich in content, broad in appeal, and high in quality.
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Mental Health Patients Bill of Rights
The Mental Health Patients Bill of Rights from the American Psychological Association.
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Mind.in
Information on the health and ill-health of the human mind, intended for the general public.
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Mind.in
Information on the health and ill-health of the human mind, intended for the general public.
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Modern Love: Ways Women Can Be More Assertive
Ladies, do you want to be more assertive in relationships? Would you like to be able to stand up for yourself in dating situations? Would you like to be more specific and strict in whom you are going out with or involved with? Read this article by Jane Collingwood, and stand up for yourself!
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Parent Coping Strategies for ADHD
How can a parent cope with a child who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Dr. Framingham lists many ways for a parent or caregiver to help the child who may be suffering. Click on this articles link and find out some of the answers you have been wanting to know.
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Psychiatric News
The American Psychiatric Publishings Psychiatric News website.
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Psychiatric Times
Psychiatric Times is the most widely read publication in the field of psychiatry, and it is available to you online.
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Revista SaludMental.info
Esta REVISTA de carácter mensual, nace con el propósito de ayudar a desarrollar habilidades y estratégias que favorezcan la Salud Mental de las personas. Los contenidos se desarrollan alrededor de cinco áreas principales: Psicología Clínica, Implicaciones Legales y Forenses de la salud Mental, Neuropsicología, Psiquiatría y Salud Mental en la Empresa.
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Short Stores from a Long Life in Psychiatry
Me and psychiatry, psychiatry and me; learning to live better in the here and now.
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The Mental Health Place ^{Top Rated}
Articles on mental health issues by Licensed Marriage and Family therapist and other professionals. Here you'll find help, guidance, tips and resources related to various issues of mental health and individual therapy.
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The National Psychologist
This publication is intended to keep psychologists informed about practice issues. Contributions and letters are invited.
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Tips for Better Managing Your Stress
There has to be a better way. Stewing around in life, upset because things did not turn out the way they were supposed to is not the best way to deal with your life. You deserve better. Do you want to learn how to manage your stress better? You do? Click on this article, and find out how.
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views from john green jr
Some science fiction to entertain. Insights into my delusions and, writings on mental health issues.
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Website of prolific Autistic Author and Artist, Donna Williams
Contains articles, on-line galleries, music, and resources associated with Autism Spectrum Conditions, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bisexuality, and Intimacy issues.
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