People in my community have experienced a lot of judgement. There is a common sentiment emerging in popular culture right now; the hardest thing about having a mental illness is everyone expects you to act as if you don’t. This makes writing about personal responsibility daunting. It is easy to judge people without understanding or…

OH&WG along with Healthy Minds Around the Loop and our community partners are working to build healthy minds, bodies and increase resilience in our community. Communities are built by sharing so we have found some things to share: gathering space, refreshments, information on low cost and no cost community resources. We are offering guided mindfulness…

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When suicide takes one of my brothers or sisters, I hear the world scream why.  Why did they not see how precious life is?  Why did they not see how to get through?  Why did they not ask for help?  Why did the people around them not see that they needed help?  I hear their…

I am not a gamer, unless you do not play video games, then I am a pretty good gamer.   My wonderful, long-suffering husband, has played video games for the better part of forty years, so I decided that I would learn so that we could play together.  For a wedding present we received Guild Wars…