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Understanding Self-harm
Self-harm is the deliberate cutting, cigarette burning or other repetitive mutilation of body tissue. Learn more about this coping mechanism.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a recognized and serious psychological condition. The common features of it are: Unstable moods and emotions as well...
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. While untreated bipolar can derail someone’s life, it doesn’t need to because it can be successfully managed....
What is OCD? Understanding the Doubting Disease
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a treatable psychological disorder that doesn’t need to be debilitating. In fact, many OCD sufferers have very successful careers.
When is Mental Health Illness a Disability?
When you think of a disability what usually comes to mind are physical diseases and injuries or incapacitations. However, increasingly mental illnesses account...