Tag: askforhelp

• Series: Asking for help – Part 2: Resources

  

  Welcome back! This is part two of a four part series, on helping yourself (or someone you know) with a mental crisis. If you haven’t read my first post, you can catch up here. To be quite honest, I have not utilized medical health professionals enough in my own life. Most of the time, I […]

  filipinomom

  May 8, 2019

  acupuncture, anxiety, askforhelp, cbdoil, chinese medicine, depression, eastern medicine, fil-am, filipinx, filpino, medicinal, mental health, mentalillness, psychiatrist, psychotherapy, spousesupport, therapist

• Series: Asking for help – Part: 1 – Why is this so hard?

  

  Listen, I am the last person to ask for help. I would honestly rather take on the entire burden of the task ahead of me rather than asking for help. A perfect example of this is the ways  my husband and I decided we would raise our kids- utilizing the grandparents as childcare. We came […]

  filipinomom

  May 1, 2019

  self discovery

  anxiety, askforhelp, depression, fil-am, filipino, filipinoamerican, filipinx, mental health, mentalillness, motherhood, spousesupport, suicidehotline

• What is mental health

  

  Prior to my diagnoses, I didn’t know anything about mental health. It wasn’t something I had ever had interest in or cared to learn about. If someone I knew talked about their mental illness, I chalked it up to them being weak and thought they should “snap out of it.” Awful, right? It comes as […]

  filipinomom

  April 10, 2019

  mental health, self discovery

  anxiety, askforhelp, depression, fil-am, filipinoamerican, filipinx, filpino, mental health, mentalillness, ptsd