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Lupus experts say to ask for help if you are struggling to manage your condition emotionally or physically.
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The licensed clinical psychologist Monica Blied, PhD, was a 27-year-old graduate student and single mother when she discovered that the debilitating fatigue and body-wide pain she was experiencing had a name: systemic lupus erythematosus. “My lupus diagnosis was a shock. I lost the hope of a healthy me,” she says.
At the time she had a 4-year-old. She worried about losing her ability to walk, she says. “I thought that losing my ability to walk would be the ultimate irony; I had been a runway model for Los Angeles Fashion Week and Ebony Fashion Fair!”
Mental health can be isolating.
The number of people who are being diagnosed with mental illness is on the rise. People like Washburn Rural High School girls wrestling coach Damon Parker are speaking out about their struggles. Nobody is an island, said Sherrie Vaughn, executive director of NAMI Kansas,a national, state and local mental health alliance. Everybody has a parent. They have friends. They have neighbors, co-workers, supervisors, employees, fellow congregants. Just look at the social sphere and everybody has some interaction or connection with people. Everybody is impacted by that lived experience of mental illness in some form or another.
As masks come off, anxiety levels increase - for some
As more Virginians get a COVID-19 vaccination and remove their masks, mental health experts warn that the easing of restrictions could ramp up anxiety for some people.
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RICHMOND, Va. As more Virginians get a COVID-19 vaccination and remove their masks, mental health experts warn that the easing of restrictions could ramp up anxiety for some people.
Lekesha Broussard, whose Village Children & Family Services provides mental health support to those who need it, said she encouraged those with re-entry anxiety to understand their boundaries and research where they re going before they leave so they can mentally prepare.
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