Rachel Kelly is a keynote speaker, bestselling writer and mental health campaigner. She shares her experience of depression and evidence-based strategies that have helped her recover, and has long been an advocate for the therapeutic power of poetry. She runs Healing Words poetry workshops for me...
Posted in Healthy Relationships, tagged death, grief, grief and loss, healing, loss, mental health on October 8, 2024| 1 Comment » When my daughter was three days old, she ended up being admitted to a children’s hospital for a 21 day stay. During this time, I went through so ma...
The youth mental health situation is so grim that in October 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Children’s Hospital Association declared a National State of Emergency in Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health. The dangers of social me...
hospital (which I am sure many people would agree isn’t the right place for a mental health crisis) I would be putting myself at risk. I often wrestle with this as professionals get exasperated with me regarding it but in my view they can’t have it both ways – they can’t want ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and related disruptive consequences in the economic, health, and educational sectors have impacted people’s lives, contributing to a context of increased economic and social vulnerability. The pandemic has revealed and accentuated
I began working in the field at a VA Hospital Indiana psychiatric unit at the age of 18. My official first mental health job was at a psychiatric inpatient unit in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1977 when I was 22. From there I was hired at the local mental health center and worked the next...
This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST106-2314-B-016-049), Tri-Service General Hospital (TSGH-C108-172, TSGH-E-110254). Institutional Review Board Statement The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by ...
and inevitably hospital admissions. I will never forget going to see a doctor just after the holidays and trying to get him to give me something effective for the depression I hadn’t been able to shake for my whole adult life up until then. He said, “why are you here? Christmas is ...
They sure did me a lot more good than the doctors did. Posted on September 19, 2022Tags amwriting, anxiety, asylum, author, autism, autistic, books, delusions, hallucinations, hospital, in patient, lgbt, mental health, mental illness, psych ward, psychiatrists, psychiatry, psychologists, psyc...
she spent ten days in a hospital almost within view of her lab. “As my life started falling apart, science was really the last thing I held on to,” says Droge-Young, who earned her degree this year and is now a science writer. “It kept me going for quite some time, until my...