Video Games & Mental Health The best studies on video games & mental health help us understand how video games affect your mental health. These are great questions and documents if you are a gamer of any kind. How video games affect mental health is a subject most people don’t know or even think of […]
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This article explains some treatments for kidney failure, but I am just a kidney failure patient, and this is not a medical site. It is advised you talked to family, medical staff, and doctors before making any decision about your treatment for yourself or your loved ones. Kidney Failure The reason for dialysis is because
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What is Polycystic Kidney Disease Just to point out I am no medical expert, doctor, or nurse. I am a person who lives with polycystic kidney disease myself and these are things I notice and have dealt with personally. This is one out of multiple reasons why I became a peer recovery specialist. Polycystic Kidney
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Wellness Tools & Coping Skills and Recovery While being a peer support specialist I have learned about coping skills & wellness tools & recovery and the difference between the two. The tools I am talking about are tools you use to cope with trauma-causing events and situations in life. Such as family or friend’s death,
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As a 40-year-old man with little to no athletic history, this would be a topic I normally wouldn’t write about but after a long year of the coronavirus being around and me being extremely inactive because of it. I need to learn how to live a healthier lifestyle: tools, tips & resources to reach that
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“Dogs are not our whole family, but they make our lives whole” I had never gone to the Humane Society to adopt and rescue a pet before, and of course, I am not an expert on training dogs or what products to use. But my dog Louie I got from the Scott County humane society
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Epilepsy? As a child, I never understood why I ever deserved epilepsy. To me it was scary and an embarrassment. I only had seizures during my sleep most of my childhood. Which was a good thing to me, because in my young mind, having epilepsy and grand mal seizures was a complete embarrassment to me.
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These last two years have been difficult to live in and hard to stay positive in. April of 2020, my father was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic Lung cancer, non-small cell. My father’s cancer had many reasons to be around, him smoking tobacco, pot, other drugs in his past before I was around or just
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Meaning of Suicide Survivor Even as a peer recovery specialist, helping multiple individuals needing help because of death because of suicide or them thinking about it themselves. I never really knew how it felt to be a suicide survivor. My first thought when I heard that phrase was “they changed their mind on committing suicide?”.
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Good question what are the 3 key things to know about peer support? Peer support is the support given by a person with the life experience of recovery from a mental or addiction problem or conflict. The peer uses their experience of recovery to help another individual with similar problems or Conflicts. To help them
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