Mental Health Stigma: Let’s break the cycle
Mental health conditions are not something that happens to an unlucky few. According to National Alliance on Mental Illnesses (NAMI), 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year 1 in 25 U.S....
Monthly Archive: September 2020
Debriefing-An reinforcement into your organization’s trauma informed principles
A traumatic event is one that poses a significant threat to life or mental stability. It can happen not just to the service users but also to the service providers especially those working in...
From mental illness to resilience-A true story
Charis, I have seen your work and your store on Instagram and the work you do is just amazing. Tell us more about yourself. My name is Charis Chan and I am from Hong...
How my family battled with my father’s Alzheimer’s
If there is one thing that I regret to this present day; it was my failure to recognize the signs of early Alzheimer’s. It wasn’t until, one morning he took my brother’s 10-year-old son to the market and came back without him that I began to put the pieces together.
As anyone with a loved one with Alzheimer’s will have experienced, Alzheimer’s affects not just an individual but the entire family as well. For with the diagnosis come the novel challenges of dealing with progressive memory loss, changes in the personality and the huge, sometimes dramatic changes in the family dynamics.
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