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mayaamoran:

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dont-just-go-pink:

October is the awareness month for every single one of these!

Don’t just go pink!

SIGNAL BOOST!

Signal boost like there’s no tomorrow!

I have faith in you tumblr!

We can raise awareness for the awarenesses!

We can do this!

I have celiac disease and this is the first time ive EVER seen it being supported besides the little groups of people who all have it. This actually means a lot because it isn’t just a joke or diet its legit. THIS IS WHY I FUCKING LOVE TUMBLR

i had selective mutism for 5 years in primary school. I didn’t know there was an awareness thing for it. I mean now i know i had that because of my anxiety though.

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feast-of-crows:

Want to hear a great Helen Keller joke?

Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and advocate for women’s suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree, and she was an avid supporter of birth control.

But let’s forget all that and make some disabled person jokes. That way we don’t have to acknowledge any of her work or any of the causes she represented.

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About 2.6 percent of American adults – nearly 6 million people – have bipolar disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). But the disease, characterized by significant and severe mood changes, is still dangerously misunderstood.

Bipolar disorder is vastly different from the normal ups and downs of everyday life, but many have co-opted the term to refer to any old change in thoughts or feelings. The mood swings in someone with bipolar disorder, sometimes also called manic depression, can damage relationships and hurt job performance. It has been estimated that anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide at least once.

Artist Ellen Forney detailed her diagnosis with bipolar disorder in the graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Forney previously shared her story with us, specifically detailing how her bipolar disorder has affected her creative work.

Below are some poignant pages from the memoir, along with unique commentary into how these panels came to be and what they mean to Forney, in her own words… What Bipolar Disorder Really Looks Like

Why Recognizing Addiction Recovery Month Matters

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Recovery Month, recognized each September, is now in its 25th year. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) website,

Recovery Month promotes the societal benefits of prevention, treatment, and recovery for mental and substance use disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment and service providers, and promotes the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. Recovery Month spreads the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover.

Recovery Month spreads the message that everyone deserves the opportunity to receive quality treatment for mental illness and substance abuse. Being the founder of an elite and respected addiction treatment center, I know that treatment works. I see it every day. Recovery Month provides an opportunity for treatment centers, hospitals, out-patient facilities, and others to share their successes treating addiction and co-occurring psychological disorders. This is important because of the prevalence of addiction and other mental health issues in our society.

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Why Recognizing Addiction Recovery Month Matters

“The Specials” reality series coming to the OWN

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British series follows five young adults with intellectual disabilities, living in a way that inspires and defies viewers’ expectations

Really not digging the title at all, but otherwise could be interesting, depending on how the rest of it is presented. 

“The Specials” reality series coming to the OWN

Rollin’ with Kristine: Local disabled woman hopes travel series makes it big, educates, inspires

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Kristine Groenenboom-Newbold enjoys traveling, despite the disability that has put in her a wheelchair. But while watching travel TV shows and videos, she often is frustrated by the dearth of information about access for the disabled to those tourist destinations.

“If you call the place,” she said, “and you go, ‘Are you guys wheelchair accessible?’ They’re like, ‘Uh, we’ve got a ramp.’ OK. What does that tell me? Nothing.”

So, about a year ago, Kristine decided to create her own series and started turning her “harebrained idea” into reality.

Kristine and Thompson plan to market their series to travel TV networks and websites. Their first episode was a visit to Callaway Gardens, and their second was kayaking on the Chattahoochee River. Next, they are scheduled to visit the National Infantry Museum and the Columbus State University Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center. They also want to film a horseback riding episode.

She is trying to raise $2,700 for the project, titled “Rollin’ with Kristine,” on GoFundMe.

“The idea is to laugh and have fun but also show the capabilities of a person in a wheelchair,” Kristine posted on the website. “The money is needed to pay for the filming, editing and production costs of 5 adventures. I have the crew and the idea and the abilities, I just need a little financial assistance. I promise this will be FAR BETTER than some of the stuff being aired these days!!”

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Rollin’ with Kristine: Local disabled woman hopes travel series makes it big, educates, inspires

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THIS MAN HAS ALS, AND HIS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH. THEN IT’LL MAKE YOU CRY

The video begins humorously as Anthony Carbajal, a photographer, dresses up in a neon bikini top and soaps up a car before being doused with ice water. 

So watch the full video here and laugh out loud at the first half and then get ready to tear up in the second half. 

People talk so much shit about the challenges. Saying it is wasting water when other countries can’t get water to drink. So donate to them too! It’s simple and a good cause. Finding a cure for ALS is a step closer to finding Multiple Sclerosis. And I want that because my mother has MS. So stop putting such a worthy cause down. And if you think it’s taking the spot light away from other causes, start speaking up!!

Healing Anxiety or a Broken Heart: The Tools Are the Same

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I’ve accepted yet another invitation from my teacher, and will be heading out on a new journey, one that takes this place of love and light and suffering – the heart center – as a starting point, and charts the course of movement, breath, and aware…

Healing Anxiety or a Broken Heart: The Tools Are the Same

Phases of clinical depression could affect treatment

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(Medical Xpress)—Research led by the University of Adelaide has resulted in new insights into clinical depression that demonstrate there cannot be a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to treating the disease.

Explores the hypothesis (arrived at through recent studies) that depression is more influenced by immune system responses than previously thought and that it may respond differently to any given treatment at various phases in the cycle of the immune system’s reactions.

Guise, this is important.

Phases of clinical depression could affect treatment