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I had just emailed NAMI on a sort of similar issue the replied me with the following:

>Thank you for contacting NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. We’re grateful you’ve reached out to us and hope that the information provided below will guide you to helpful resources and next steps.

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>We’ll highlight a few options for you now, but please consider calling the HelpLine to speak with one of our volunteer Information & Resource Referral Specialists to talk through additional options if we have not been able to fully address your question. Our volunteers have “lived experience” – either living with or caring for a loved one with a mental health condition, so we’re passionate about helping to find the best options for you. 

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>Firstly, you may wish to view our Want To Know How To Help A Friend Infographic to begin the conversation. 

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>Secondly, often an individual living with a mental health diagnosis – particularly one that involves a serious mental health condition (or one complicated by substance use disorder) – may not actively participate in their own recovery. This is known as Anosognosia [Ah-no-zog-nosha], a co-occurring disorder that can accompany a serious mental health condition and render the individual unable to recognize that they have a mental health condition and/or that they need to seek help. 

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>To learn techniques for communicating with your loved one, and to help them agree to partner in their recovery, we would recommend reading I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!, a book by Dr. Xavier Amador - a psychologist whose experiences with his own family demonstrated how challenging this phenomenon could be. In his book, Dr. Amador discusses the condition of Anosognosia and outlines strategies for communicating with a loved one to help them work toward recovery. The first half of the book is accessible to the public on our website here; the book is available in English and Spanish for purchase at online booksellers. 

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>A broader discussion of the strategies of Dr. Amador’s LEAP method, including videos on how to apply the LEAP method, are available for free here.

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>Additionally, an alternative option to consider: Mobile Crisis (MCU) or Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team is an emergency mental health service offered by many counties to provide on-scene evaluation, treatment and crisis interventions in the community. The teams specialize in providing these services to individuals who are experiencing a mental health emergency and who need, but are unwilling or unable to seek, mental health treatment. 

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>While the goal of the MCU is to enlist the individual’s cooperation and develop the least restrictive treatment options, the MCU is authorized to recommend and facilitate involuntary hospitalization and treatment when necessary.

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>The criteria for requesting an MCU varies depending upon the county or city mental health agency. However, a person experiencing a crisis that presents a danger of harm to self or others and is unwilling or unable to accept emergency services would qualify for mobile crisis services. If about you are unsure about the availability of mobile crisis services in your area or when it’s appropriate to call, contact the emergency mental health services in your county for more information by dialing 211.

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>A final note - we would urge you to reach out to the NAMI Affiliate serving your area. Our Affiliates can provide additional information and referrals to local resources in your community. They also offer free support groups, classes and other programs where you can learn more about mental health, how to support recovery, and most importantly - where you can be among peers in your community who face similar challenges living with or caring for a loved one with a mental health condition.

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>Membership is not required to participate. Your local NAMI Affiliate or NAMI State Organization can help you register for NAMI courses and programs. To find your nearest NAMI Affiliate, click on your state through the Find Your Local NAMI menu. 

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>We hope this has been helpful. To speak with one of our volunteer Information & Resource Referral Specialists, please call the NAMI Information HelpLine at 800-950-NAMI (6264), available Monday through Friday, between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm EST. Visit our website for more information at www.NAMI.org.


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This is very resourceful and if you live in US then you could even contact the numbers they mention. If you have any more questions then you can just email them.

In sales we call it the 3 steps.

Set the goals, plan the work, work the plan.

It really is that simple.

I'm just saying, figure out where in the sky you want to BE in 10 years, figure out what you had to do starting NOW to get there which gives you a bearing and a plot to your personal 'North Star'

Set the goal, plan the work, work the plan.

There's a lot psych to it like writing positive statements and leaving notes all over the place and forcing yourself to think positive YES I CAN!

Crap like that.

Check out Og Mandino's 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' , while based on faith and 'churchy' sounding (it was written in another Era), it is actually a primer on life. Oprah recently made a lot of noise about 'THE SECRET' which is a very similar rhetoric and how to psych yourself out to achieve your dreams.

As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela

Edit: Oops, just saw you wanted great literature. In that case, try The Master and Margerita A story about love and power set in Moscow, featuring a writer, his lover, some Communist party stooges, Satan, his minions, and a demonic cat named Behemoth.

I've got this one. With all of these artists, I will link a single example of their work. Run some searches for the artist and you will find their work in higher quality and in much greater variety. In fact, please do listen to other tracks by these artists. I live for these artists and their creations; they interface with my soul somehow.

First, your island song.

• Harold Budd
  
• Carbon Based Lifeforms
  
• Aurastore
  
• Lowercase Noises
  
• Aes Dana
  
• Alpha Wave Movement
  
• Alva Noto
  
• Aural Planet
  
• Bersarin Quartett
  
• Biosphere
  
• Bluetech
  
• Code Indigo
  
• Constance Demby
  
• Field Rotation
  
• Grains of Sound
  
• Grey Area
  
• H.U.V.A. Network
  
• Hol Baumann
  
• Jens Buchert
  
• Joey Fehrenbach
  
• Kiln
  
• Marcus Loeber
  
• Max Richter
  
• Maxence Cyrin (not technically ambient, but of similar qualities at times)
  
• Moodswings (listen to "Interior Design")
  
• Mystical Sun
  
• Omnimotion (one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard)
  
• Outputmessage
  
• Proem
  
• Secede
  
• Soma Sonic
  
• Sounds From the Ground
  
• Ten Madison
  
• Trentemøller
  
• Tycho
  
• Ulrich Schnauss
  
• Vangelis
  
• Will Ackerman
  
  Many, many more exist. Add r/ambient, r/ambientmusic, and r/idm to your frontpage for more.

Vaporwave mixes up 80s and 90s design elements, in a nostalgic way for an incoherent era. You can place some of them directly - like Outrun is inspired by, well OutRun the 1986 game. Early 3DCG will play a role. But certain design elements seem newer - witness the 1995 edition of Postmodernism for Beginners, which could totally be vaporwave if only it was tone mapped to look like a 90s Taco Bell. The 1992 Jazz Cup is another popular influence. This can be tied back to the 80s via CGA Graphics. You'll also see a Japanese style of text rendering.. This is possibly a throwback to Western ports of Japanese games?

Then there are full projects like Windows 93 where each element is its own memory, but is rooted in 90s computing as a whole.

Check out this book. I bought a copy a while ago and read it cover to cover. It has a lot of good info, breaks down the popular expat countries into basic info and includes expat testimonials. I'm still here because I haven't entirely given up in a positive change for America.

The Call of the Wild is a very well known American short novel. It was first published in 1903. It's the kind of thing that used to be assigned in U.S. high schools (and maybe it still is).

Jack London was a novelist who lived mostly in the San Francisco area. His more famous works (The Call of the Wild, White Fang) are all about adventures in northern Canada during a gold rush.

The Call of the Wild has been made into a movie something like six times, with yet another version due early next year, starring Harrison Ford.

You can find the book on Amazon.com here.

Is that what you wanted to know?

The brand new ET game for the Atari! Also, I happen to have a small supply of ET game cartridges. So please stock up while I'm still in stock!

Edit: No this game can not be acquired for free at a mythical Atari landfill in New Mexico.

This book is great for understanding more about yourself. Basically, it is about the ego. There is part describing the workings of the ego and part pointing to the remedy. Essentially it says that everybody's purpose in life is to live in the present moment as much as they can.

The Sales Bible. Great read for anyone in business actually.

Lately, Bruce Bartlett's The Benefit and the Burden and Lawrence Lessig's Republic Lost. Mostly issue politics and future of country type of stuff. That said, I have a bachelor's in poli sci and went to grad school for political theory (ad then went to law school), so my choice materials may be a bit different than most. But you should still read both of those (especially Republic Lost).

I would suggest a book to help guide you called Drawing on the Right side of the Brain.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/dp/1585429201

You will get more in depth knowledge and ideas from this book than I can convey on Reddit.

In fact, judging by the summaries of those two books I would recommend to you, Winner Take All Politics and Oligarchy

you didn't try very hard:

http://www.amazon.com/Smurfs-Magic-Flute-VHS/dp/B00000F678

This worked for me.

I can't stand to watch this stay uncommented, so here I go:

As I recall from reading the 'DC Comics Guide to Inking', there's a certain kind of brush hair that works better than others. Human? Elven? I don't know. Bottom line is: Don't just buy the chepeast brush around, as you lose precision because the brush hair on the tip is all fucked up. I guess that's as important for water colour as it is for ink.

The Mad Scientists' Club

Go the Fuck to Sleep