Mental Health FAQ

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If you are having thoughts or feelings about suicide, we encourage you to reach out for support from a trusted person you feel comfortable talking to such as a friend, family member, teacher, or counselor.

You can work out a safety plan to help keep you safe that will include who you reach out to for immediate support, coping skills and tools, safe places you can be, and places or people you can store any lethal means/items away from you, and who else can help support you such as a therapist, doctor, or mental health provider or support person.

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If you are trying to support someone having suicidal thoughts and feelings some important things you can do are let the person know that you care about them. Refrain from using stigmatizing and shameful language and discuss by asking the person what you can do to best support them.

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This article explores the various barriers, roadblocks, and challenges that make it difficult or otherwise impossible to access appropriate mental health resources for support and help. Understanding these roadblocks allows us to focus on solutions to create equitable access for everyone to receive the support they need.

Broadly, Depression, as described in the peer support recovery model is a mental health challenge where we experience at varying levels and times feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and other negative emotions that impact our lives in significant ways. The impact it can have on us can manifest in forms of fatigue, lack of motivation, self-doubt, poor confidence, poor communication skills, imbalance in our brain chemistry, suicidal thoughts and feelings and so on. We view depression as an experience that we live with and can be caused by imbalances in our brains and bodies, as well as from life challenges that we experience.

Depression can be treated with support, care, kindness, therapy, medication and changes in life experiences that contribute to our depression.

Learn more about Depression in the peer support recovery model, and how it impacts our lives and the people around us as well useful tips, skills, and tools for managing living with depression by reading the full article.