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Find Help Find Hope

We all deal with them. Anxiousness, depression, and general "blah's" are part of life. SOMEthing will always make us feel a range of emotions from extreme glee to downright depressed. And most of us will bounce back

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Winter Blahs

The January Blahs

January 19, 2022  |  Depression, seasonal affective disorder

I have to admit that once the holidays are done, I sort of melt into a "blah" mood for teh month of January. it's not that the new year gets off to a bad start or anything - quite the contrary. I think each year starts

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Depression Screening Day

Depression Screening Day

October 8, 2021  |  Depression, Mental health, screening

About a week ago, a friend of mine talked with me about how down she'd been feeling. It started as a general sense of "meh" but quickly spiraled into a deeper despair. She felt overwhelmed and didn't know where to

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COVID Care Program

COVID Care

February 25, 2021  |  Addiction, Alcohol, Anxiety, COVID-19, Depression

MHRB is excited to launch our part of Ohio's COVID Care Program. Through a grant from the federal government and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS), the board is promoting the

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Different Kind of Holiday

A different kind of holiday

December 4, 2020  |  Christmas stress, COVID-19, depression, holidays

It's a foregone conclusion at this point that Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve will all be very different this year. COVID has taken its toll on so many of our traditions and "feel good" things that

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suicide prevention for older adults

I was 10 years old when my paternal grandfather died. He was the only grandfather I'd known, since my mom's dad died when she was just 14 or 15. But I digress. My grandmother grieved as any spouse would, and  the rest

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