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Top 29 Mental Health Apps: Recommended by Users With Lived Experience

September 26, 2018November 12, 2018 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment 7 Cups of Tea, addiction, African American, anxiety, apps, BetterHelp, bipolar, black, Buddhify, Calm, chatbots, Cove, Daylio, depression, eating disorders, eMoods Bipolar and mood tracker, free, Happier, Happify, Headspace, iMood Journal, Insight Timer, insomnia, Jasmine Pierre, journals, Litesprite games, meditation, mental health apps, micro diary, mindfulness, mood, mood charts, MoodKit, most popular, musical journal, online therapy, Pacifica, Pokemon Go, PTSD Coach, Quit That, Rain Rain Sleep Sounds, Recovery Record, Replika, review, Sleep cycle alarm clock, sleep disorders, stress, SuperBetter, Supportiv, Talkspace online therapy, technology, telemedicine, testimonials, The Safe Place, top, tracker, trauma, What's Up?, White Noise Sleep Pillow, Woebot

Hi.  I’m back or I’ll just say I’m here.  I took a five month break from blogging and plenty of

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6 Tips: How To Get Stuff Done When You Are Depressed

July 22, 2018July 29, 2018 JessicaGimeno 4 Comments

  I’ve been depressed the past few days.  There are many difficult aspects to depression and one of them is

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3 Ways To Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease

April 10, 2018April 12, 2018 Rebecca Evans 0 Comments causes, how to support, loved ones, medications, neurological disorder, Parkinson's disease, symptoms, treatments

Three Ways to Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease While it’s well-known and accepted that Parkinson’s disease is an incredibly

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3 Tips on Surviving the Holidays from Chronic Christmas Author, Lene Andersen

December 15, 2017 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment Chronic Christmas, fibro, interview, juvenile, Lene Andersen, RA, surviving holidays, with chronic illness

Today, I am interviewing Lene Andersen, author of Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness (paperback and kindle

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Why People With Invisible & Chronic Illnesses Deserve Academy Awards

September 28, 2017March 1, 2018 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment Academy Award, asthma, autoimmune, bipolar, bipolar 2, chronic illness, depression, disability, fatigue, invisible illness, Jessica Gimeno, mental illness, MG, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, work

Last week I had a day where I was really off my A-game at work.  The night before I woke

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3 Lessons on Loving a Sick Person From a 4-Year Old

September 14, 2017September 15, 2017 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments

(Repost)  Last weekend I was exhausted. After a 40-hr work week, it was hard to find my mojo. Lying in

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Ashley Levinson On Her 29-Year Journey With PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)

September 7, 2017 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment Ashley Levinson, Bolt For PCOS 5K, interview, PCOS Awareness, PCOS Resolution 495, September, symptoms

For many women’s health advocates, September is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Awareness Month.  Today’s blog post is my short interview

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Where Is Your “Happy Place”?

August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments

I have been feeling much better the past three weeks.  In my last blog post, “The Loneliness of Chronic Illnesses

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The Loneliness of Living with Chronic Illnesses & Pain

August 2, 2017November 27, 2017 JessicaGimeno 3 Comments autoimmune, bipolar, chronic, chronic illness, depression, disability, fatigue, how to help sick friend, illness, Jessica Gimeno, laughter, loneliness, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, otitis media, pain, PCOS

(UPDATE: The TV show I discuss in paragraph 2 aired its finale since I wrote this. The writers resolved the

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#AncientAbledProverbs: 45 Things NOT To Say to People with Disabilities

July 13, 2017July 14, 2017 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments #ancientabledproverbs, ableism, things not to say to disabled people, what not to say

So the fabulous @HijaDe2Madre started this twitter hashtag that went viral called #AncientAbledProverbs about things people with disabilities are tired

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