In January 2017, I got a Facebook message from Ariel Mintz asking if I had any interest in joining an ...
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As this is being written, one of the main issues at the forefront of the cultural consciousness is ableism and ...
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There’s something that doesn’t sit right with calling myself- or anyone for that matter- an “ally” to people who struggle ...
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For several years after my daughter was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, she regularly told me she wanted to die ...
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For decades, mental health has been a taboo topic, only to be whispered about - if that. It has been ...
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A friend of mine recently posted a meme on social media about how her home sometimes feels like an insane ...
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Over the past several months, words and terms which were hardly ever used by the common person have all of ...
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In the waning moments of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and shortly before his highly anticipated acceptance speech, Joe ...
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When I first started watching This Is Us, I immediately fell in love with the relatable and compelling storyline: the ...
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It deeply hurts. Time and time after time again, politicians, newscasters and everyday people associate violence with mental illness. This ...
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Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Chester Bennington, and Robin Williams. Sharon Markovitz, Batsheva Stadlan, Chazz Petrella and recently Channing Smith. All ...
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NBC’s highly rated show This is Us has captured the hearts of viewers across the country as it chronicles the ...
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May is Mental Health Month.  It is also a time of counting the omer, the 49 day, 7 week period ...
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The following is a piece from the Refuat Hanefesh column “Struggling Together: Mental Health in The Torah”. In this column, ...
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What is your time worth to you? I ask because it is my unfortunate position to be the one to ...
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It surpasses ironic. The Connor Project: A fictitious movement based on a fictitious story conceived by the minds behind the ...
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Consider the following: A neighbor is sick with cancer. She is a mother of three young kids and is in ...
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The following is a piece from the Refuat Hanefesh column “Struggling Together: Mental Health in The Torah”. In this column, ...
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In the past two years, everything has changed for me. I started working for a game-changing mental health student club ...
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The following is a piece from the Refuat Hanefesh column “Struggling Together: Mental Health in The Torah”. In this column, Tzivia Appleman ...
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The following is the introduction to a Refuat Hanefesh column “Struggling Together: Mental Health in The Torah”. In this column, Tzivia ...
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On June 5th, we lost the iconic 55-year-old fashion designer Kate Spade to suicide. She left her husband and 13-year-old ...
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Blah blah blah. Same old message from the same old guy. Yeah, I get it: He wants to end the ...
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“I’m Draven Bennington, and I’m here on the National Suicide Prevention Week. I want to make a commitment that I ...
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Akeidat Yitzchak is commonly categorized as the epitome of the Jewish faith. As the story famously goes, Avraham was told ...
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At the recent VMAs (Video Music Awards), rapper Logic took the stage armed with more than lyrics and a compelling ...
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As the natural course runs its time, songs rise and fall from the music chart rankings. However, my interest of ...
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Empathy is a trait so many strive for but struggle to attain. It is simply not natural to feel what ...
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The Gemara (Taanis 23b) tells a story about an old man working the field. As he labored away, someone came ...
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Sensitivity and political correctness have dominated this generation. One may think that this prevents the discussion of sensitive and important ...
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I Live The Stigma The emails are coming in fast and furious, nearly quicker than I can respond. Thing is ...
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“Why  am I like this?” I ask myself this question as I sit at my desk at 3:38 AM struggling ...
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As a society, we have an initiative in which we try to remove killers. One way we achieve this is ...
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A huge part of the stigma surrounding mental illnesses involves the notion that a person living with a mental illness will be ...
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Therapy therapy therapy therapy therapy. I am an Orthodox Jew who goes to therapy. Maybe if I keep repeating the ...
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