In this short episode, licensed counselors Erica Gregory and Mandi Allison discuss the growing mental health crisis among teens, highlighting the alarming rise in suicide rates. They explore how prolonged emotional pain can lead to a desire for escape and how social media intensifies anxiety and feelings of isolation. Learn how to recognize the warning signs and better support the teens in your life.

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Join us for a critical community conversation in response to recent tragedies in Sugar Hill and Winder, GA, including a suicide by cop and a school shooting. Suicide and school violence are preventable, and it's vital to know how to take action. In this live podcast, we'll discuss how to proactively address mental health crises and keep our community safe.

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In this video, Erica discusses what self-harm is, why people self-harm, and helpful tools to support a person who may be participating in this behavior or having thoughts of hurting themselves. Erica explains why teens cut, and how to show empathy and compassion when someone is self harming in helping a loved one suffering with overwhelming emotional pain and finding a healthy alternative to self-harm.

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Anxiety Series Catch Up

How To Find A Therapist

By: Chloe Gabrielle Harper, Clinical Intern at JCAC

A question that is pretty common is “How Do I Find A Therapist?”. You are sitting in your bed and you realize that it is time to make a change, so you talk to your friend and he or she tells you maybe you need a therapist. You do a wild google search and words come up like “mental health counselor”, “clinical counselor”, “mental health technician”, “telehealth mental professional”, “psychiatrist”, and “psychologist”, and the list continues! You have asked you, friends, you have gone through 8 pages of google sites, and side links; a...

The news of Anthony Bourdain's death greeted us all this morning when we woke. There is scientific data supporting a phenomenon called "suicide contagion"; the number of suicides dramatically rises soon after a celebrity's death by suicide hits the front page. The tragic deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Robin Williams were cited in the articles. Making this decision isn't always rooted in mental illness, other factors include relationship and economic issues, physical chronic pain, a history of trauma or abuse, and the recent loss of a loved one. With the death of Kate Spade earlier this week and now Anthony Bourdain today, it is important that we are all aware of some common behaviors of people...

The death of Kate Spade earlier this week shocked us all. She had it all, some might say; money, fame, family. Yet, mental illness knows no bounds; ethnicity, race, religion, gender, economic status and political stance mean nothing to mental illness. Mental illness shatters dreams, breaks apart families and brings careers to a screeching halt. It is a silent struggle, making it difficult to know if someone around you is in pain or is suffering. Help us bring more awareness to the impact of mental illness on individuals and families. Let's do our part to spread the word that asking for help is okay, that resources are available and that counseling and treatment can help. It is imperative tha...