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Mahershala Ali and Riz Ahmed on Variety’s Actors to Watch 

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I teared up reading this. It hits nearly every point I would want the federal mental health policy to hit including:

-early intervention and prevention -care for pregnant and new moms and their kids -care in schools from pre-k through college -increasing access to care -increasing mental health parity and ENFORCEMENT of mental health parity laws -increasing community based care -providing treatment to nonviolent offenders rather than jail -speciality drug and Veteran courts -speciality care for serious mental illness populations -funding of research -integration of research into mental health treatment and policy -integration of mental health and physical health care -increased supported housing and employment -peer support and peer advocacy -suicide prevention programming -the list goes on

This is a great policy, and Clinton’s record indicates she gets it and will follow through. Please consider this seriously when you decide who to vote for- these policies have the potential to save lives.

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White people by Smosh

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For all the yoga fans out there. Try to stay mindful ☺️.

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A student asked a teacher: “ whats the difference between I like you and I love you?” The teacher beautifully answered with: “ well its like a flower. If you like a flower, you pluck it. If you love a flower, you water it every day and take care of it” And if you understand that my friend, you’ll understand the concept of love and life.

(via under-iinfluence)

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Nurses with post traumatic stress disorder. Let research move forward to address these helping professionals.

Jordin Purcell-Riess has worked as a registered nurse at the emergency department at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., for three years. She describes her workplace as phones going off, voices everywhere, every room full. “You look around and the hallways are full of patients on stretchers, you walk out to the waiting room and you can see on our board that there’s 15 people signing in,” she says. “The second you can get your ICU patient upstairs, there’s another one waiting for you.”

She typically doesn’t get a chance to eat or drink or go to the bathroom during her 12-hour shift, Purcell-Riess says. And she’s not alone. Her nursing manager points out that a 2007 study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicinefound that 24 percent of ICU nurses and 14 percent of general nurses tested positive for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nursing has long been considered one of the most stressful professions, according to areview of research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012. Nurses and researchers say it comes down to organizational problems in hospitals worldwide. That includes cuts in staffing; some California nurses struck last month for a week over low staffing and wages.

Nurses Say Stress Interferes With Caring For Their Patients

Photo credit: Oivind Hovland/Getty Images/Ikon Images

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Self-Talk

The Cognitive Model is based on the idea that our emotions and behaviors are influenced by our perceptions of events. The thoughts that go through our mind in any given situation are automatic and cause us to have different emotional responses. These automatic thoughts reflect the way in which we interpret and think about a situation, and have a major effect on the way we feel.

Our automatic thoughts spring up like a reflex; they are rapid and oftentimes very brief. In fact, many people are barely aware of their automatic thoughts and are more likely to notice the emotions that follow. As a result, many people accept their automatic thoughts as being true, without evaluating the validity of the thought.

Although some automatic thoughts are true, many are either untrue or have just a grain of truth. The list below describes the most common mistakes people make in their thinking. Often it’s helpful to try to figure out what mistake you might be making because it will help you respond to the thought better. Consider the following:

How to change our self-talk and automatic thinking

Read chapter 8 of the Anxiety & Phobia Workbook 

TL;DR

More on Automatic Thoughts (list example)

Printable worksheet to practice changing automatic thinking

Checklist of cognitive distortions

Countering negative self-talk

Strength-building self-talk

Supportive statements

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Gina Rodriguez being adorable on CONAN.

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Eating salad every day

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Cliche cappuccino post. But I mean. It was so good.

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