The Regional 1 Mental Health Recovery Conference went off with flying colors. Paul Jones “Bipolar Boy” spoke as one of the speakers, as did Lizzy Simon. If you ever have the opportunity to hear them, take it. They are very good. Bipolar Boy is very funny. He makes you think of the stigma of mental [...]
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Tomorrow is the annual Mental Health Recovery Conference for Regional 1 in Northern Idaho. I will be a panel speaker. I will be giving my personal story of recovery, along with three others in the morning and afternoon.
If you live in the North Idaho area, stop by and meet me. It is supposed to be [...]
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According to psychologists, motivation is anything that might energize and direct an organism’s actions.
What is your motivation? Is it good grades, if you are in school? Money at a job? Your kids?
In the material that I have studied on motivation over the past year, I have learned that motivation is tied in with the self-esteem. [...]
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I just wanted to share another blog I have discovered on mental health issues. Alicia at http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/ has a great blog. She writes on mental health issues just as I do, from a different perspective.
Right now Alicia is running a contest for a book called “They Can’t Find Anything Wrong”. Go over and check it out.
She [...]
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