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5 Essential Steps for Sustained Mental Health & Wellness

While keeping in good physical shape is important for self-care, it is also important to take care of your mental health and wellness. The pace and stresses of modern life...

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childrens mental health

Mental Health & Trigger Warning Happy America – A Societal Coddling

The movement of "trigger warnings" and so-called "safe spaces" that are primarily on college campuses are supposed to protect people from being uncomfortable/offended/traumatized from content, a phrase, or even a...

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Daily Habit Hacks for a Stress Free Life

Your habits serve as bumpers or boundaries in your life. Good habits can set you up for positive outcomes while bad habits will likely guide you to scenarios you don't...

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Mental Health

Why Diet and Mental Health Are Eternally Connected

Most people think healthy eating is all about losing unwanted weight, but did you know that a proper diet helps sustain your mental health? Your body and mind are intimately...

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Mental Health Stories

Brent Sopel | From Stanley Cup Champion to Rock Bottom

For over 25 years, Brent Sopel, former 2010 Stanley Cup Champion and Chicago Blackhawk defenseman, hid behind hockey.  It was a place he could be who he wanted to be without anyone knowing the pain that lay deep.  When the last puck was dropped on his NHL career, he was faced with a reality that he had refused to accept since early childhood.  What would happen next would be nothing short of a mountain to climb. Brent Sopel grew up in Vancouver, Canada, where playing hockey was his passion.  Reading, writing, and arithmetic was something that seemed to haunt him.  He was...

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Mental Health Stories

Steve Milazzo | You Are Not Alone

Steve Milazzo and his identical twin, Nick, led seemingly normal lives. They were each other's shadows throughout childhood and adolescence. They were inseparable, until their lives were turned upside down for these two twins. This is the story of Steve and Nick Milazzo. Unfortunately, alone is exactly how I felt when my identical twin brother Nick was diagnosed with schizophrenia in June 2009. I remember it like it was yesterday: I was a fresh college grad, ambitiously attending night classes to earn my MBA while working full-time in hopes of saving enough money to buy an engagement ring. Looking back,...

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NAMI FaithNet

FaithNet Mission NAMI FaithNet is an interfaith resource network of NAMI members, friends, clergy and congregations of all faith traditions who wish to encourage faith communities who are welcoming and...

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ADHD

Dr. Segal’s 5 Keys to Successful ADHD Treatment

Dr. Norman Segal, a popular and well established pediatrician in the Chicago Northwest suburbs, presented a talk at the Des Plaines Public Library on February 13, 2019 to a capacity...

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Basics for Parents

4 Crisis Points in Children’s Mental Health

A child's mental health can be impacted by stress, especially if the stress is long-term, sudden or accompanied by other life-changing events. Here are some mental health crisis points that...

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Winter 2019 | NAMI Newsline

Winter 2019 NAMI Newsline - COOK COUNTY NORTH SUBURBAN

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Advocacy

7 Biggest Challenges of Overcoming Anorexia

Those who have never actually experienced anorexia often think others can overcome the disease simply by realizing their own inner beauty and starting to eat again. However, anorexia nervosa (an...

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Mental Health

5 WAYS | How Yoga Can Positively Impact Your Mental Health

Yoga is a "no-brainer" for people that do and don't like to exercise!  Why? Yoga is like fitness, and it is not like fitness. It resembles fitness because it strengthens...

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