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The Body Image Lessons I Learned From Illness and Disability

By Angela Hartlin — 2020

I no longer care about my body being perfect. It’s taken a long time to get here, but I’ve realized my body has been through too much to spend time and energy caring about losing that extra 10 pounds or minimizing my scars. I just wish my body didn’t have to experience a lot of distress in order to give myself permission to accept it without wanting to achieve the next level of idealism.

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Luke’s Best Chance: One Man’s Fight for His Autistic Son

More than a million children in America are the autism spectrum. What happens when they come of age?

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I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

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The Skin You’re In: Coping with Body Changes After Cancer

Knowing that all people who undergo treatment for cancer will face some sort of changes to their bodies and self-perception is both normalizing and challenging.

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Dara Chadwick
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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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Georgianna Dolan-Reilly
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Experimental Treatments Changed the Course of the AIDS Epidemic; We Need the Same Approach to Mental Illness Today | Commentary

Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.

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