Mental Health Awareness Month: Learn Your Resources
Mental health has become a hot topic in recent years- which is amazing news! This means that the negative stigmas surrounding mental health are dwindling down and more resources are becoming available. The month of May is known as Mental Health Awareness Month, aimed at fighting the stigma, providing support, educating the public, and advocating for policies that benefit those with mental illness. Each year, many organizations join this movement including the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), Mental Health America (MHA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), and so many more.
Unfortunately, mental health affects millions of individuals each day. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected mental health for people of all ages, genders, and ethnicities. Therefore, now more than ever it is extremely important to facilitate open conversations regarding mental health challenges. I think we all can agree that this past year alone
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One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized upon the results as “proof” that “the African is incapable of self-care and sinks into lunacy under the burden of freedom. It is a mercy to him to give this guardianship and protection from mental death.”
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Harrisonburg is well over 2,000 miles from Oregon, but when the Pacific Coast state endured its worst wildfire season ever in 2020, Debbie Sturm felt devastated.
A professor of graduate psychology at James Madison University and a native of Pennsylvania, Sturm has never lived in Oregon, but she has been visiting the state every summer for the past 12 years. In that time, she has developed a deep place attachment.