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Emotional Dependency

  • by Sarah Blackston
Being dependent on another person for your emotional well-being isn't a healthy way to live.
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The Star People

  • by Elissa Kroeger
Having a parent or loved one with schizophrenia or other mental illnesses presents unique challenges.
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The Family Impacted by Schizophrenia

  • by Michael D Summey
If someone in your family has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, then you know that it impacts each member of the family! This is especially true if the person with the diagnosis lives with you.
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What Is Schizophrenia?

  • by Michael D Summey
It is not as portrayed in entertainment media, here is a look at the real story.
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Healing After Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother

  • by Elissa Kroeger
In my journey along the road to recovery from a crazy childhood, I learned about an interesting idea called "re-parenting ourselves." What that means is that those of us who had less than ideal family situations when we were children are not trapped by the negative things we learned from our original families. The idea is we can choose someone we think of as a good role model and put that person...
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What Is Autism?

  • by Ace Cockrell
Today autism is the biggest and fastest-growing mental disorder in the world. In the last decade, the U.S. population has increased by 13 percent. Autism alone in the last decade has increased 173 percent. Such a dramatic increase makes it imperative we have some understanding of what autism is.