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You Have to Become Your Own Mental Health Expert
Healing from addiction and/or mental illness requires healing mind, body, and soul.
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Action Beats Inaction
Kathy Berman
Mar 31, 2021
Dual Diagnosis Means Working at Two or More Recoveries
Dual Diagnosis Means Working at Two or More Recoveries
“Change occurs when you become what you are, not when you try to become what you are not…change seems to happen when you have abandoned…
Kathy Berman
Nov 10, 2020
Relapse is Often Undiagnosed Mental Illness
Relapse is Often Undiagnosed Mental Illness
“I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all…
Kathy Berman
Dec 30, 2020
PTSD: Understanding My Social Isolation
PTSD: Understanding My Social Isolation
My 33rd year of recovery from alcohol addiction began Nov. 24, 2009. Needless to say to anyone living a spiritual quest, many emotions are…
Kathy Berman
Apr 13, 2021
Do You Have Depression?
Do You Have Depression?
The best way to tell if you have depression that is interfering with your life is — have you felt this way for 2 or more weeks? If you…
Kathy Berman
Nov 3, 2020
Your Mind Controls Your Life
Listen to Your Thoughts. They Control Your Life.
Listen to Your Thoughts. They Control Your Life.
“The observer self is that aspect of consciousness which can watch us act like fools and stand back at a safe distance, shaking its head…
Kathy Berman
Apr 13, 2021
Avoiding Our Triggers Makes Them Stronger
Avoiding Our Triggers Makes Them Stronger
From Bipolar: Flying Too Close to the Sun: “Unexpected triggers“:
Kathy Berman
Nov 9, 2020
Transactional Analysis Helps to Sort Out Our Inner Voices
Transactional Analysis Helps to Sort Out Our Inner Voices
The first step toward learning to use your mind as a servant for your will rather than allowing it to roam unchecked is to begin learning…
Kathy Berman
Jan 23, 2021
You Have to Become Your Own Mental Health Expert
You Have to Become Your Own Mental Health Expert
“He thought of the PET scans he had studied, always looking for his mother, hands in his pockets, nodding as the radiologists spoke, and…
Kathy Berman
Nov 5, 2020
I Had Clinical Depression for Two Years. and Lived to Write About It.
I Had Clinical Depression for Two Years. and Lived to Write About It.
“we all know this needs to change, for so many reasons. the biggest one that comes to mind has to do with isolation. isolation of two…
Kathy Berman
Nov 4, 2020
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