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There’s a Mental Health Crisis Among American Children. Why?

George Ricciardella — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 19:22:54 +0000

This article is originally published in the New York Time Magazine and is available in it's entirety HERE Last June, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine documented six unusual cases in the journal Movement Disorders. The subjects were teenage girls between 13 and 16 who had started having “abrupt-onset tic-like movements.” The tics were [...]

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Black Pioneers in Mental Health

George Ricciardella — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:51:30 +0000

The Gooden Center prides itself on being an all-inclusive organization. Some one once told me that Alcoholics Anonymous was intergrated before Major League Baseball and the U.S. Army. It's important for us all to understand that, when attempting success in recovery, we must look at our similarities and not our differences. On this, the first [...]

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5 Signs That You Are a Highly “Mindful” Individual

George Ricciardella — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 23:47:23 +0000

At the Gooden Center, we make sure to take an approach to our men and women in recovery that mindfulness is an essential aspect of recovery. We try to foster the idea that only be getting out of our own egos, can we begin to see the path forward. You can learn more about our [...]

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Coping with the Stress of Natural Disaster

George Ricciardella — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:20:47 +0000

When disaster strikes, it can be devastating. People lose their homes, their pets, their family. Sometimes your life can be in danger. Dealing with that stress can cause trauma, PTSD, and can significantly upset your daily life and routines – putting you and your family at increased risk of additional mental health disorders. Coping [...]

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Mental Health and the Black Community

annieuser — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:07:32 +0000

Today, an estimated 20.6% of the U.S. population, or 1 in 5 adults, suffers from a mental illness or disorder. That rate is also about the same in black and white individuals. However, mental health intersects with Black experiences to create significant differences in how mental health problems are experienced, treated, and escalated. Cultural [...]

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Differences Between Self-Esteem and Narcissism

George Ricciardella — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:12:44 +0000

Narcissism is a mental health disorder, also known as antisocial personality disorder, in which the person suffering it experiences a grandiose image of their own self. This normally results in an inflated sense of self-importance and ego. And, that often results in a deflated sense of the importance and worth of others. As a [...]

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Supporting Mental Health in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

annieuser — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:02:01 +0000

While an estimated 70% of the American workforce spent the better half of 2021 (and most of 2020) working from home – that's quickly changing. Workplaces are trying to “get back to normal” after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that involves moving people into work. That’s obviously stressful, especially for the millions of people who [...]

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Effects of Social Isolation on Mental Health

annieuser — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:20:13 +0000

Humans are social creatures. Most of us want and need to be surrounded by friends, family, and loved ones. But, what happens when you can’t? It remains true that the more we need help, the more most of us self-isolate. And, pandemic and health risks have done little to help with that. But, whether [...]

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Music Therapy and Mental Health

Jim Sugel — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:41:30 +0000

Music therapy is an incredibly common complimentary therapy used to supplement many forms of behavioral therapy, counseling, and group therapy. While music therapy is a “complimentary” therapy, it’s used to help individuals build creativity, self-confidence, and to share emotions. Complimentary or supplementary therapies are used to add to existing treatments because they don’t prove [...]

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The Link Between Child Abuse and Mental Illness

George Ricciardella — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 06:20:36 +0000

Mental illness impacts nearly 1 in 5 Americans. That means 19% of us, or about 46 million U.S. adults, have a mental illness. These mental illnesses negatively impact everything from physical health to emotional wellbeing, relationships, productivity, and quality of life. And, while we can reliably diagnose many of them, millions of us don’t [...]

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