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Helping Versus Enabling: How to Know the Difference
It’s so hard, watching someone you love suffer. It can be tempting sometimes to step in and protect them. Unfortunately, this attempt to help a person who is important to
- by Jackie Hammers-Crowell
Medication and therapy are powerful tools for managing mental health, but self-care is also an important way people with mental health diagnoses can manage their symptoms. One self-care tool patients...
- by Jackie Hammers-Crowell
April is Stress Awareness Month. Stress is not a mental health disorder, but it does contribute to mental illnesses and can be a symptom of mental health struggles. At Carolina...
- by Jackie Hammers-Crowell
It’s no coincidence that so many techniques that are recommended to help people relax involve nature. Whether you’re just visualizing a soothing outdoor scene or you’re spending time outside, nature...
- by Jackie Hammers-Crowell
The things we experience in childhood shape us, for better or worse. While it is common knowledge that our early lives have an impact on how we develop, there has...