Today is World Bipolar Day. Learn about the symptoms and get screened for Mania, Depression and Anxiety via the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's Screening Center. These online screening...
Gender is a major part of life. It influences how we move through, how we see, and how we are viewed by the world. Although mental health among women looks...
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The Mental Health Coalition is proud to sign a historic vision to re-envision our country’s mental health and substance use care system, at a time when we may need it...
If you’re living with disordered eating and struggling with your body image, you’re not alone. Learn ways to cope from MHC member organization, Crisis Text Line
Hear from The Trevor Project's Black employees who share their oral history to reflect on a life-changing year. They get personal about how 2020 impacted their relationship to mental health...
Every 1 needs to talk 2 some 1. That’s why we have partnered with Facebook to launch ‘121 Live’, an IGTV Series featuring advocates “going 121” with their 1 to discuss a...
The language we use is powerful, so let's talk about it. If you feel a bit unsure about what language to use when describing mental health you, are not alone....
Dr. Doreen Marshall, Ph.D., AFSP Vice President of Mission Engagement and MHC member organization, shares how to cope when you can’t see the path ahead. This article originally appeared in...
Dempris Gasque is a community advocate with a passion for human rights & Co-Author of the bestselling book, "There is No Health Without Mental Health Anthology: Men & Mental Health...Let's...
MHC member organization Fountain House has assembled a list of policy recommendations to support our collective mental health that are politically feasible, strategically sound, and morally imperative. Enacting the recommended...
In this new book, The Scaffold Effect, world-renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Founding president and director of the Child Mind Institute and MHC members organization shares how to prevent...
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If you or a friend need urgent assistance, call 911 immediately, or take your friend directly to the emergency room. If you feel it’s safe, stay with your friend, or find someone to stay with them until help arrives.
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