by Andrew Richardson Understand why you dream – what Human Givens teaches Tonight you will dream. What is going on is that your brain will act out in story-like form the hopes, fears and reflections that occupied your mind today. Today’s concerns are tonight’s dreams.   But dreaming is exhausting.  If you need more dreaming because…

by Andrew Richardson Human Givens has been called the first new bio, psycho, social model of psychology for forty years. Human Givens is UK based and dates from the late 1990’s and challenges the conventional way of dealing with mental problems I am a therapist who helps those who come to me lost in their depression. My…

It’s All About Effort It’s easy to pop a pill and think that’s the fix you need for depression. But depression takes more effort than that.  In fact, it’s all about effort. You have to change your way of thinking. This is extremely difficult to accomplish and can take years of work. Even then, when…

The one question I needed to be asked as a black woman with bipolar disorder… by Ivy McQuain I believe being black with a mental illness is one of the hardest things to accept in the black community. Why? Because having a mental illness only means you’re crazy. That’s it. In my experience, there’s no room…

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