Discovering that you may have mental health issues can be very challenging. It took me a while to understand my mental health issues. When I was in high school, I knew I felt anxiety but I was always in denial. I always searched up questions about mental health but I always justified my anxiety by […]
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Exposure to traumatic events such as internal displacement contributes to sustained deleterious effects on individual mental health. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) has nearly tripled from approximately 15 million to 55 million people, making up more than 68% of the worldwide displaced population. These numbers continue to rise with
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“How much worse could life get?”, Kate wondered. To her, people were just ravaging lions waiting for the next available opportunity to ridicule and stigmatize the weak. Unfortunately for her, she had joined the “weak gang” and she could fully understand the pains and the travails of being ridiculed and stigmatized. She had always been
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Have you ever felt down or sad? I bet you all have at some point and it is very normal. It shows that you have feelings. Mental health is a topic that gets stigmatized so often in our society. If someone is having a mental health issue, they are less likely to get help because
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For the first time in her life, Tonye felt a sense of satisfaction. She had just published her first novel despite all of the constraints that made this feat seem impossible. Who would have guessed that the “Tonye Cole” had any writing bone in her body. She had never really had any direction or purpose
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