Sometimes, a little stress can be a good thing. It can push us to perform better, stay focused, and achieve our goals. But if that stress turns into excessive worry, it can have a detrimental impact on our lives and careers. When it's left unmanaged, high anxiety often leads to a lack of motivation, procrastination, distraction, and avoidable workplace mistakes.
Read MoreMy name is William Henry Tucker and I live every day with mental illness in a small town in Northern Minnesota. Most of us live with some kind of mental illness. Once upon a time, not so long ago, we hid away, not admitting to it, fighting the symptoms in the dark, alone.
Read MoreIn writing this, I honor not only others, but myself as well. I worked both part-time and full-time in a series of group homes between 2012 and 2017. I was a Direct Support Professional. I emptied colostomy bags. I brushed teeth. I shaved men before they went off to work at their disabilities employment center. I cooked. In caring for people, you gain knowledge…
Read MoreSchizoaffective is a psychiatric term used to describe people who have both a mood disorder—depression or bipolar—and episodes of hallucinations and delusions characteristic of schizophrenia. I post on this blog every second and fourth Thursday at noon a personal essay by me, a man with schizoaffective, bipolar type…
Read MoreWellness in the Woods’ Virtual Peer Support Network offers daylong programmed Zoom meetings, giving people with mental health and addiction issues the ability to meet with others to promote wellness and discuss challenges they face.
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By Andy Steiner | MinnPost contributing writer
Read MoreResearch shows that peer to peer services are an important complement to clinical care for people who experience mental illness challenges or substance use issues. Peer to peer services mean individuals who have a lived experience of dealing with mental health or substance use work with others who are currently dealing with these challenges.
Read MoreToday was full of challenges. Just everyday kinds of difficulties that can be exacerbated by a mental health diagnosis. I jumped in the shower to find that there is only the fan of very hot water that no matter the jostling of the faucet, could coax anything other than scalding from it.
Read MoreMany of us are feeling a sense of anger. We aren’t exactly sure who to be angry with. The COVID19, leadership, the neighbors, our partners…whoever gets in the way today when I am feeling that I can’t control my environment? What we are experiencing is grief. It’s OK. We have lost what we knew, what we expected, everything to graduations to vacations to loved ones and time together.
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