This Mental Health Awareness blog post is about awareness and prevention of suicide. Any conversation about suicide is difficult. Some people worry that talking about it might cause someone who is thinking about suicide to act on those thoughts. But not discussing suicide at all isn't an option either. Treating suicide as a taboo topic…
Bullying: Survival and Prevention
This discussion of bullying is part of our Mental Health Awareness series. What's so bad about a little bullying? It's just harmless kid stuff, right? Wrong. People who have been bullied can experience pain and trauma that affects them for the rest of their lives. What do we know about bullying? How do we know…
Mental Health Awareness: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
In this segment of our Mental Health Awareness series, we'll take a look at Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. People in general tend to have misconceptions about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Sometimes people jokingly say "She's so OCD!" about someone who is very organized. OCD is often unrelated to a desire for tidiness and it isn't a…
Mental Health Awareness: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Not all injuries caused by trauma are visible. In this segment of our Mental Health Awareness series, we're going to discuss Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD,"PTSD is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like…
Mental Health Awareness: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
We continue our Mental Health Awareness series with a look at borderline personality disorder, an often misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness,"Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties regulating emotion. This means that people who experience BPD feel emotions intensely and for extended periods of time…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month!
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Mental Health Month. In recognition of Mental Health Month, we have created some lists of library and online resources that may interest you. Please note: The information in this post and the items in these lists are intended for informational purposes and are not meant to take the place…
Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
Please note: Due to the sensitive subject matter, the following information includes content that may be upsetting or unsuitable for some readers. April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. According to the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA), "in the U.S., one in 5 women and one in 71 men will be raped at…
Autism Spectrum Disorder
The majority of people with autism want to advocate for themselves, without interference from non-autistic people. However, this blog was written with the intention of encouraging neurotypical people (i.e. non-autistic) to become more informed and to be more considerate of people with autism. While we want to be respectful of all kinds of people, whether…
Mental Health Awareness: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a relatively recent term for what people used to call "manic depression." We are going to take a look at bipolar disorder in this installment of our Mental Health Awareness series. Those of us who have bipolar disorder experience intense, debilitating mood swings. We have low and high moods of varying intensity…
Mental Health Awareness: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
Our Mental Health Awareness series continues as we discuss schizophrenia and related disorders. First of all, we want to tell you what schizophrenia is not. It is not the same as having 'split' or multiple personalities. Looking at the origin of the word, we can see why people mistakenly confuse split personalities with schizophrenia. The…
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