Mental Health
NIMH » One Year of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, and Anticipating New Challenges
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This piece was authored in collaboration with leadership across NIH and represents a unified effort to meet the testing-related challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic with...
Mental Health
Why Don’t Doctors Listen to People with Bipolar Disorder? | Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy
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Doctors often don’t listen to people with bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses. In fact, most people with bipolar disorder know, the instant a doctor sees “bipolar disorder” on your chart, you’re screwed. Now, don’t get me wrong, not...
Mental Health
Let’s Build Bipolar Pride Instead of Ending Bipolar Stigma | Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy
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Today’s guest post is by Curtis Hier. He is a 34-year public school teacher with bipolar I disorder. Today, Curtis discusses how we should strive for bipolar pride over just ending bipolar stigma.
Literature calling for an end to mental...
Mental Health
Weekly CEO Update: Outreach and connecting the community to the NDIS is a must
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In amongst the ongoing debate and discussion around Independent Assessments in the NDIS, as well as a change in Minister, the silent success of the National Community Connectors Program (NCCP) and its huge potential nationally, seems to have gone...
Mental Health
Mental Health Privilege — What Is It? Do You Have It? | Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy
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There is such a thing as mental health privilege. Most people, by now, know what racial privilege is — it’s the idea that some races (namely, caucasian, in North America) enjoy certain privileges that other races do not. Racial...
Mental Health
Weekly CEO Update: Coming up for air after a busy start to the year
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Amongst new virus outbreaks leading to lockdowns, floods, vaccine roll-outs, ongoing challenges in economic recovery, post-pandemic plans, and upheaval and changes in portfolio leadership in Government, it’s sometimes hard to come up for air. Add in the fact that...
Mental Health
Myths About Bipolar and Brilliance, Genius — We’re Just People and That’s Okay | Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy
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There’s a myth that people with bipolar disorder are brilliant. There’s a myth that people with bipolar disorder are geniuses. There’s a myth that bipolar disorder has made us “special.” None of this is true. People with bipolar disorder...
Mental Health
Weekly CEO Update: Embracing all that is good about Harmony Week and feeling at home
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I was born and brought up in Tanzania, East Africa where my parents worked as teachers.
When I moved to Australia at aged 12 I had a perspective on many things that was out of step with my peers’ experiences.
It...
Mental Health
Mental Health and Artificial Intelligence: Emotion Self-Regulation Tools | Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy
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Today’s piece is sponsored by Larimar: Beyond Intelligence. Larimar is working on creating artificial intelligence-based emotion regulation tools. Read about their exciting developments below.
Mental health is something that’s thought of as happening within oneself, but what if an artificial...
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