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Wellness Initiatives for People Living with Mental Illness
According to New York State’s Commissioner of Mental Health, Michael Hogan PhD, “There really is no recovery without some overall experience of wellness. There is no wellness without positive mental health. We need integration of care in every place. We have to approach it from a lot of...
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Integrative Healing: Linking Emotional and Physical Wellness to Recovery
Recovery from mental illness is a complex process marked by ebbs and flows of wellness and relapse. Furthermore, it involves the interaction of many internal (i.e., physical and psychological) and external (i.e., housing and family) systems. Our past two articles have focused primarily on how...
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Physical Health Should Be a Priority of the Mental Health System and Mental Health Should Be a Priority of the Health System
Over the past couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that physical health needs to be a priority of the mental health system and that mental health needs to be a priority of the health system. Why it took so long to realize this is not entirely clear to me, because the basic facts have...
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Fountain House Members Improve Mind and Body
Several years ago Fountain House, the originator of the Clubhouse model of psychiatric rehabilitation, witnessed the statistical rise in morbidity that affects those living with mental illness within our own consumer ranks. We suffered loses to a degree that we could not overlook. After two years...
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Exploring Creative Approaches to Improve Health and Wellness
It is widely recognized that a strong connection between physical health and mental health exists. But where do we go from here? What creative approaches can health care providers explore for improving general health and mental wellness to enhance recovery? With a growing shift toward...
