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Melanie Santos Melanie Santos

I finally know the roots of my depression + anxiety: An Update Video

This is my *updated* journey with depression and anxiety and how I’m dealing with my mental health disorders without medication. I break down the essential things I’ve learned, changed, and currently do to keep my clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder 100% AWAY.

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Melanie Santos Melanie Santos

Mental Health Resource Hub

I’ve been talking about mental health and wellness for a long time. I can’t possibly compile all the resources I’ve EVER shared since 2013 – mostly because so many have been live conversations and social media posts – but I’ll use this page to host the honest conversations, videos, and articles I’ve created and been a part of and will create moving forward.

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Melanie Santos Melanie Santos

8 Ways I Cope with Depression

I’ve accepted that I am just one of the millions of Americans that have depression and that my self-care has to look a little differently than others. I’ve been learning my symptoms and their patterns and creating healing rituals that build healthy bonds for my mind, body, and soul. Here are eight of them I can’t do without.

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Melanie Santos Melanie Santos

My Mental Health Story

Watch as I tell my mental health story. From birth, to growing complexes, codependency, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and eventually...healing with therapy. Finding a therapy is not the end of the world. Find out how here.

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Melanie Santos Melanie Santos

Hey, R U OK? And Other Ways to Help Prevent Suicide

September 10th marks the observation of WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY, this year’s theme being Reaching Out and Saving Lives. The internet will be flooded with yellow ribbons, statistics and ways to be pro-active in the fight to prevent suicide this month, but how can you reach out and save lives every day?

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