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At the top of the previous week, I was persistently nagged by the muse. I absolutely adore the muse and she and I are best friends. However, sometimes it is hard to understand her whispers. So last week was an anxi ...
Posted Sunday, October 26th 2008 at 9:02AM
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I was brought up in a religious home like many of you. I believed I was very grounded in my faith until after I married and moved away. Although I continued my religious practices, life was coming at me hard and fast as a wife and mother of three. ...
Posted Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 1:58PM
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I did it! I challenged myself to do a seven-day marathon bringing as much valuable information as possible about mental illnesses! To everybody who read the information, THANK YOU!!!!! Now you are armed with valuable information to save an untreat ...
Posted Sunday, October 12th 2008 at 8:27PM
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Welcome to My house
Where I will mold then teach you
Courage, inner strength,
And grant you peace,
By opening your eyes
To see Me in life
To guide you in spirit
Down My loving path
Classes of divinity
Every hour of the day
Hindsight, fore ...
Posted Sunday, October 12th 2008 at 2:14PM
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What is Evidenced-Based Practices (EBP)?
According to NAMI with input from the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Child, Adolescent & Family Branch of the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), EBP's are tried and ...
Posted Saturday, October 11th 2008 at 7:48PM
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(This is a repost. I don't know what happened to the original, but I did not want folks to get confused with the series out of sequence).
What exactly is a "quality" of life?
Well, according to Wikipedia, quality of life is the degree o ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2008 at 10:02AM
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Yes, that was the theme song, "Wake-Up Everybody, No More Sleeping In Bed!" by the Harold Melvin and the BLUE Notes back in the day. I hope I'm telling my age because my life has been an evolution of sorts.
Back in the day, I was dancing to that ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2008 at 6:45PM
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(This is a repost. I do not know what happened to first post)
In an article by Dr. Peter S. Jensen, M.D. titled: "Setting the Record Straight: Fact v. Fiction About ADHD," it becomes quite clear that the need for people to learn about and under ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2008 at 2:47PM
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This continues to be a great book for children of parents struggling with a mental illness.
When parents face difficult days due to a mental illness, their children will undoubtedly face difficult days with them. The behaviors of the parents will ...
Posted Sunday, October 5th 2008 at 4:09PM
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One of the chief reasons I kept having Bipolar episodes during my early stages of treatment is that I could not afford the cost of medications. Because of that, I routinely skipped doses and I even stopped taking my prescriptions once for two months ...
Posted Sunday, October 5th 2008 at 3:07PM
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Mental illnesses are brain disorders due to a chemical imbalance. When the brain gets sick, it cannot heal itself. You only get one brain!
Mental illnesses make it difficult or impossible to live a normal life without medication and therapy and ...
Posted Sunday, October 5th 2008 at 2:17PM
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Depression is a normal emotion that comes and goes with life. It is a chemical release in the brain known as dopemine that is probably responsible for the emotion depression.
When someone dies or we lose our job, we may feel periods of sadness. ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 12:27PM
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CHADS
It happened,
The best of my political fears.
The election was robbed,
moved me to tears.
I was so angry, no, I was mad,
It wasn’t fate, or modern fads,
but a vanilla beast named chad.
Count’em again, let us all pray,
And hope our vo ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2008 at 9:18AM
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I often hear people explain that the reason that they do not get involved with helping a loved one seek mental health treatment is that they do not want a confrontation.
That is certainly a valid reason for all parties involved not to get in ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 1:53PM
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I often hear people explain that the reason that they do not get involved with helping a loved one seek mental health treatment is that they do not want a confrontation.
That is certainly a valid reason for all parties involved not to get i ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 1:43PM
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I often hear people explain that the reason that they do not get involved with helping a loved one seek mental health treatment is that they do not want a confrontation.
That is certainly a valid reason for all parties involved not to get i ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 1:42PM
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I often hear people explain that the reason that they do not get involved with helping a loved one seek mental health treatment is that they do not want a confrontation.
That is certainly a valid reason for all parties involved not to get i ...
Posted Saturday, September 27th 2008 at 1:40PM
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I am in full swing at my part-time job teaching now and I'm trying to organize "blogging" time. Today was not a day I had planned to speak, but God took over.
I chatted with a colleague today who has a friend who has been trying for over a year t ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 8:43PM
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Jesus Christ gave us the eight Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, recorded for all posterity in the Gospel of Matthew, the first Book of the New Testament of the Bible. Jesus offers us a way of life that promises eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 8:10PM
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Allow me to introduce you to Pastor Joshua A. McClure!
Pastor McClure has recently released his second book, "Almost Persuaded, Now to Believe" and he shares some of his experience as a writer AND Pastor...
Why do I write?
Well, I feel co ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 3:10PM
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My book cover art: 'Snowy Owls' has a deep spiritual meaning. Owls represent mainly prophecy and wisdom. Their flight is silent and swift. The owl, thus, is most notable for its awesome and keen vision during blackness. Blackness is where we hid ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2008 at 8:17PM
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Although it sometimes seems as if God has changed His mind, He is always faithful to us. He is faithful during broken relationships, deaths, job losses, parenting, friendships, finances, etc.
The trials and tribulations we face should make us str ...
Posted Sunday, September 21st 2008 at 4:37PM
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Although it sometimes seems as if God has changed His mind, He is always faithful to us. He is faithful during broken relationships, deaths, job losses, parenting, friendships, finances, etc.
The trials and tribulations we face should make us str ...
Posted Sunday, September 21st 2008 at 4:25PM
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Hi Sister Nila,
In response to your blog "Does God Change His Mind," my comment is "No."
Praise Him for His faithfulness to us through the storms, across the rocky seas, over the bumpy road, and up the steep mountain.
We believe He has chang ...
Posted Sunday, September 21st 2008 at 4:17PM
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