Bulletin Category: Read Up
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Tips to Prevent Firearm Suicides
The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency launched a unique approach that recognizes the gun-owning and gun-selling community as partners in the...
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Keeping Our Loved Ones Safe
Restricting Access to Lethal Means Can Save Lives When it comes to keeping suicidal people safe from harm, reducing their access to means of self-injury is...
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How to Explore Controversial Topics Respectfully
"In this environment of division and adversity it is most essential to continue to engage in conversations, healthy debates, and listening. Speaking out should not...
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When the External Becomes Internal: Community Stress and Our Mental Health
Many San Diegans find these to be challenging times. The political climate is charged, social media is full of rumors and disturbing events, and the...
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Stress in the 21st Century
Stress is the natural response of the body when a demand is made on it. Changes, whether good or bad, and our desire to attempt...
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When Was the Last Time You Checked Your Mood
Check Your Mood Day is an annual event held in conjunction with National Depression Screening Day in October. The goal of Check Your Mood Day...
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Depression Shouldn’t Dim the Golden Years
Bette Davis once said, “Old age is not for sissies.” There are many versions of her quote but they all express the sentiment that aging...
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Don’t Drive Like My Brother!
Sound familiar? “Car Talk” is the popular long-running radio show hosted by two brothers who dispense colorful advice to callers to help them solve their...
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Mixed Up About Rx?
If you have seen the many headlines about prescription drugs you may be wondering: fact or fiction? The truth is that many medications are over-prescribed and...
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Live Well San Diego Encourages Us to Be Our Best, Healthiest Selves
Live Well San Diego is the County of San Diego’s vision to improve the health, safety and well-being of all of us living in America’s...
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Not Just Back-to-School, but Well-to-School
With new teachers and classmates, new routines and more schoolwork, the beginning of a new school year can be an exciting and stressful time, whether...
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Unleash the Picasso Within and Benefit Your Emotional Health
For centuries art has existed as an outlet for people to share ideas, inspire action and pass down personal and cultural stories. Whether you enjoy...
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The Tipping Point—Are You Enjoying a Drink or Needing a Drink?
Whether it is to celebrate or simply forget our day at work, alcohol can help change the way we feel. But while a glass of...
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When It Comes to Matters of Mental Health, Culture Counts!
San Diego has long prided itself on its diverse population. Our community is truly a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities and heritages. Culture—our beliefs, norms,...
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Lights, Camera, Action: Media Can Help Shape a Positive Image for Mental Illness
Of course, we know that there is added drama in the dramas we watch, but they still shape us. We have ideas about how our...
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Know the Signs, Find the Words and Reach Out!
Even when surrounded by friends and family, someone experiencing emotional pain or suicidal thoughts can often feel isolated. Recognizing the warning signs is the first...
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Check on an Older Adult in Your Life!
“I’m fine” and “Nothing I can’t take care of myself.” Do these sound like familiar responses when you ask an older person how he or...
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Creating Intergenerational Connections Good for Our Mental Health and Our Community
What do children and older adults have in common? In San Diego the answer is lots! For the last decade strides have been made in...
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Creating Caring Congregations
A supportive faith community can provide hope, support and the feeling of being connected to something bigger: a place where people are accepted for who...
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Eight Resolutions for the New Year and All Year Long
If you are concerned that a friend or family member is struggling with depression, anxiety or another mental disorder, the best thing you can do...
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Happy Together? Or is Your Relationship Taking a Toll on Your Mental Health?
Human nature is social by design. We have an emotional need for relationships and positive connections to others. But what if a relationship turns from...
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What Causes Mental Illness?
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) defines mental illness as a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate...
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Stress— Once a Life Saver, Now a Serious Threat to Our Health
Stress is what we feel when we have to handle more than we are used to. When we are stressed, our body responds as though...
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San Diego News Anchor Shares Her Story of Recovery from Mental Illness
Depression and anxiety can happen to anybody at any time and should not be taken lightly. One of the most difficult things about overcoming depression...
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For Men Only (and those that love them)
When you’re feeling pretty good about yourself, chances are you’re happy at home, hitting the gym, doing well at work, and simply enjoying all that...
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Students’ Mental Health
College can be an exciting time of self-discovery, independence and realizing dreams for the future. Yet the challenge of balancing school, sleep, work and play...
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Suicide is Preventable
It’s not always easy to recognize the warning signs that someone is thinking about ending their life, or to start that difficult conversation. What if...
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Learn More About Mental Illness
Seemingly overnight your once “sweet child” is slamming doors, rolling eyes at everything you say (that is, if you are not simply ignored), discovering a...
