This index provides an overview of the posts that appear as part of a recurring theme or series on the Mental Health @ Home blog. There are also pages devoted to the themes of social justice, stigma, and debunking pseudoscience, which you can find in the resource pages menu above.
Here’s an overview of the weekly blog schedule:
- Guest blogs may show up Mondays & Wednesdays from the Emerging blogger series – the series page has the details on how to participate
- Wednesdays are book reviews
- Fridays are the what is… series, which looks deeper into the meaning of a variety of psychology-related terms
- Saturdays are weekend wrap-ups, a look at what’s going on in my world that week
- Sundays are for blogging about blogging – you can directory of these posts on the Blogging & Writing Tips page.
Psychiatric medications
These posts draw on my training and experience as a mental health nurse and former pharmacist. My book Psych Meds Made Simple has plenty of information about psych meds all in one place.
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Psych meds 101 series – this is a great place to go for the essential info on different types of psychiatric medications:
- Antidepressants and Suicide Risk
- Dead if you do, dead if you don’t? Weighing the risks & benefits of medications
- Do antidepressants work? What a new meta-analysis says
- Do I look fat in this Seroquel?
- Do We Know How Psych Meds Work?
- Evidence- based treatment of anxiety
- Evidence-based treatment of bipolar disorder: the CANMAT/ISBD guidelines
- I dream of ketamine
- Medication Use in Pregnancy
- Meds that can make you crazy (literally)
- My experiences of going off meds
- My Version of Being Pro-Medication
- Naltrexone – An Opioid Blocker That Gets Around
- Our complicated relationships with medications
- Pill popper RN
- The role of medications in borderline personality disorder
- Treatment resistant depression: When what’s supposed to work doesn’t
- What the STAR*D study means for depression treatment
- Where did our meds go?
- Working On Us Week 23: Medications
Suicide
Suicide is a huge issue for people dealing with mental illness. It’s important that we talk about it, and that conversation needs to address a range of different experiences with suicide as well as the need for more effective mental illness treatment to mitigate risk.
On the Mental Health @ Home Store, there’s a Safety Plan resource to guide you through planning ahead of time to cope when thoughts of suicide are getting bad.
- Cognitive deconstruction and the lead up to suicide
- Crisis resources for suicide prevention – has a listing of suicide crisis lines and crisis text/chat services
- Guilt Is Not a Suicide Prevention Strategy
- Hello, stranger? I’m suicidal.
- How do we prevent suicide?
- How picky should we be about suicide-related language?
- How Should Social Media Handle Reported Suicidal Posts?
- No regrets? Surviving attempted suicide
- Privacy and completed suicide
- Public Views On Suicide
- Some thoughts on suicide
- Suicide and barriers to help-seeking
- TED Talks on depression and suicide
- The way the media talks about suicide matters
- What goes too far on social media?
- Will suicide ever be 100% preventable?
- Working On Us mental health prompts #7 (suicide) and #16 (passive suicidal ideation)
- World Suicide Prevention Day – Suicide is not selfish
Therapy
- CBT Cognitive distortions
- CBT for insomnia
- Drilling down to core beliefs (CBT)
- Finding wise mind (DBT)
- Mental health worksheets galore
- My therapy journal (a guest post on PanoramicCounseling.com)
- Online mental health workbooks
- Psychotherapy alphabet soup
- Setting sail with the ACT life compass (acceptance and commitment therapy)
Trauma
The Mental Health @ Home Store has a mini e-book PTSD Treatment Options: An Overview.
- Creating a trauma account
- How trauma-informed practice can improve mental health care
- TED Talks on trauma
- The neurobiology of traumatic fight/flight/freeze
- What we can learn about trauma from the ACEs study: the Adverse Childhood Events study was pioneering research about the effect of childhood trauma on health in adulthood
- Why is complex PTSD not in the DSM-5?
Travelling
Travelling has long been a passion of mine, and sometimes I like to write about it.
You can find my free how-to guide on Travelling with Mental Illness on the Mental Health @ Home Store.
- How do you say antidepressant in Uzbek?
- I like airplane mode
- Leaving on a jet plane
- Places ticked off my bucket list
- Pressing reset (or maybe just pause)
- Pros and cons of travelling for mental health
- The downside of being a solo female traveller
- Travelling with depression as a carry-on
Work issues and workplace bullying
I’ve faced negative attitudes at work related to my mental illness, and I’ve also experienced workplace bullying. I think it’s important to talk about these things because they can be so isolating.
- Adapting ambition to circumstances
- Disclosing mental illness at work: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Flush… is that my career going down the toilet?
- Learning to name workplace bullying
- Making sense of workplace bullying
- Managing working (or not) with disability
- Mental Illness and Employment Discrimination
- Mental illness and the dreaded job interview
- The Effects of Bullying on Mental Health
- The other #metoo: Experiencing workplace bullying