Category: Psychology
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July is Minority Mental Health Month
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month was founded in 2008 to bring awareness to the unique struggles that underrepresented groups face regarding mental illness in the United States. Mental health conditions do not discriminate. Anyone can experience challenges with their mental health, regardless of their race, color, gender or identity. However, those within minority communities…
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Gay Pride Month and Mental Health: How one activist changed the psychiatric community’s stance on homosexuality
Today (June 9th), the 31st annual Philadelphia Pride Parade took place; beginning in the heart of the Gayborhood, at 13th and Locust Streets, ending at Penn’s landing. Similar parades and events are taking place across the globe to recognize the influence LGBTQ people have had around the world and serve as an opportunity to peacefully…
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Philadelphia Asylum: The Real American Horror Story
“In Philadelphia, the sovereign Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains a dilapidated, overcrowded, undermanned mental ‘hospital’ known as Byberry. There, on the stone wall of a basement ward appropriately known as the ‘Dungeon,’ one can still read, after nine years, the five-word legend: George was kill here 1937.” – Life Magazine, 1946 In 1903, the Commonwealth…
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