by MHA | Feb 4, 2020 | Mental Health
About 1 in 10 teens who have been on a date were also physically abused by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the last year. February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, a national effort to raise awareness and protect teens from violence. Teens and young adults who...
by MHA | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
January 1st is always a time of reflection and planning for me. A brand new calendar (I still get a paper one every year), full of promise and possibilities, awaits my sharpened pencils. First, I review the past year and force myself to acknowledge the successes,...
by MHA | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Steve Myers participates in Support Groups and offers advice to others to overcome their mental health related problems. He volunteers with Delaware mental health organizations and recently opened a Facebook Page entitled “My Depression” to bring awareness to the...
by MHA | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I was 22 years old, I tried to commit suicide and it changed the course of my life forever. At the time, I was living in California and had an undiagnosed mental illness (Bipolar 2 Disorder) and it led to me having a psychotic break. My life began to sound like...
by MHA | Oct 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have always been interested in the field of mental health due to my own and my loved ones’ struggles with mental illness. From a young age, I felt as though I was a therapist to my friends and family, so I decided to study psychology in college. I attended Hofstra...
by MHA | Sep 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
As I’m sure most all of us would agree, when the people we love are hurting, the thing we want most is to be able to make their pain go away. We want to be able to fix it. Unfortunately, situations don’t always have a quick and easy fix. While every individual and...
by MHA | Jul 9, 2019 | Awareness
It was a simple concept… at first. We wanted to run one mile every hour for 24 straight hours. I’m not really sure what the genesis of the idea was, but we knew we wanted to do it. And we knew we wanted people to know about it. The positive mental health benefits of...
by MHA | Jun 4, 2019 | Awareness
MHA Harm Reduction Series, Part II One of the principal objectives of harm reduction is to reduce the spread of infectious disease. Harm reduction data reveals a compelling inverse correlation between harm reduction methodology and HIV & Hepatitis C rates —as a...
by MHA | May 13, 2019 | Self Care
Did you know that In 2015 the amount spent on stress-related health care costs in America was 160 billion to 256 billion (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016; Goh, Pfeffer & Zenios, 2016). Moreover, it is estimated that for all physician office visits,...
by MHA | May 13, 2019 | Awareness
MHA Harm Reduction Series, Part III You’ve likely heard of healthcare parity—the initiative to treat mental health and substance use disorders with the same quality and coverage of care as physical illnesses. Parity, despite being written into law, is far from the...
