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Homogeneity is the quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind of mind. Many blame the United States’ recent political and social strife on a growing trend toward forced political, socioeconomic, and biodiverse homogeneity. Whether the definition is understood or agreed upon, for the first time in decades, large …
Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling
Substance abuse, alcohol abuse, uncertain employment, declining school performance, discrimination, spousal abuse, poverty, mass shootings, and the list goes on. Every month for the past year, behavioral and emotional disorders top the list of mental illnesses in the United States and each condition mentioned in the opening lines of this article have directly affected mental …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling
“No ones’ going to harm you – not while I’m around”. A song from the Broadway show Sweeny Todd is also a phrase parents use to help children feel safe and at ease. Ensuring a child is safe from monsters under the bed or beasts in the closet, because you are in the next room, …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Mental Health
In an effort to remove the stigma of mental illness, football players, athletes, models, celebrities, and entertainers are publicly acknowledging their mental illness. Though many cheer their openness, The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports: “Mental illness is being both sensationalized and misrepresented by television and media. Sensationalizing mental illness can be harmful, especially for …
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“I want one moment in time when I’m more than I thought I could be.” Despite the pain, despair, anxiety, depression, and loss suffered in 2020, thousands of people across this amazing country discovered they were more than they thought they could be. Business owners forced to close their doors discovered ways to pay laid-off …
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