Preventing Suicide: Addressing Trauma-Related Symptoms in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

• By: Ann Marie Kavanagh, PhD Richard LaMonica, PhD G. Mitchell Mazzone, MA Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
• July 19th, 2023
• mindfulness, posttraumatic stress symptoms, PTSD, self-compassion, serious mental illness, suicide, suicide prevention, suicide risk, Summer 2023 Issue, trauma
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The incidence of mental illness is pervasive in the United States, a recent estimate suggesting it impacts more than one in five adults (NIMH, 2023). While “mental illness” is a category that embodies all diagnoses, a subset of this category, serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia spectrum...

Internalized Stigma

• By: John Orr, MA, LMHC Vibrant Emotional Health
• July 14th, 2022
• compassion, internalized stigma, labels, mental health stigma, self-compassion, stigma, Summer 2022 Issue
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Stigma around mental health is not an unfamiliar conversation in professional circles and, thanks to the hard work of countless teams and individuals, stigma is becoming a more common conversation in our communities, albeit a recent conversation. Prior to this work, stigma didn’t have a context...