Calling all writers! DSM Community Writing project!
Calling all writers & researchers!
Mental health professionals diagnose people by using the DSM 5. The DSM 5 categorizes mental health disorders and provides a list of symptoms for each disorder. For example, one category is mood disorders or disorders of mood. Symptoms listed for depression include difficulty concentrating, lack of pleasure in things that used to cause pleasure, weight gain or weight loss etc.
Many people struggling with a disorder search google for words like help with depression or "therapy for bipolar disorder," or "treatment for social anxiety." Many sites provide information for these disorders, but no real tools or ways to address the issue. One main thing we provide is a way for people to cope with and overcome these challenges - we support people through listening, the growth path, the forum, and therapy.
We want to do a better job of reaching people that are looking for help. To do that, we need to have pages on our website that address each mental health challenge and outline ways the 7 Cups community can help. We need your help creating the content for these pages.
How do I get involved?
Here you will find a share drive for this project!
This drive contains a google doc for every topic we want to write about. Right now, this is 43 topics.
On this main tracking sheet, you can sign up to write a topic, connect directly to the cooresponding google sheet and log your progress. If you decide to help with a topic, you must sign up to let us know if you are working on a topic so that there are no duplicates. You may work as an individual or in teams! It is up to you! You may work on as many of these as you like.
Once you have completed your topic, please update the status here to "complete." This will signal that this topic is done!
Sign me up
I'm down. What are we going to be writing about?
@decisiveNickel6630
Hey there! You can find a full list here. Hope this helps :)
Interested.
breathing.
@DancingAlong want to write one with me? D:
@BurningEmber
Potentially?
@DancingAlong
Look at the list and let me know which one you want to write :)
Yay!! Something i love more than finn and jack harries!!; i am definitely in!!
This is awesome Laura!
I'm looking forward to writing about Anxiety Disorders and Depression!
I'd like to help out, preferably with someone else. If anyone wants any assistance, do let me know! I'll take a look at the shared drive in the meantime. :)
@Synerjee
If you like, we could work together! I've not picked a specific topic yet, but maybe we can discuss?
@windflowers Sounds great! What topics are you interested in so far?
@Synerjee
I don't mind, i's really up to you >:)
@windflowers How about we list down topics that we're interested in and narrow them down to those that we both have? :) Let's take this to PM to make communication easier.
@Synerjee
Sure, that sounds awesome! I can't PM you, though; I'm a teen member, and since you only listen to members over 18, I can't message you. I could, however, create a forum thread so the both of us could talk; would that be an option for you?
I'll do it,but what are we writing about?
@Katejosl
Hey there! You can find a full list here. Hope this helps :)
@Katejosl
Please read the post in full for more information :)
@Ady23
Hey there! I noticed you're working on ADD/ADHD, and I was wondering if I would be able to help in any way?
@windflowers of course. let's figure out how we can do it together. :) pm me?
@Ady23
I can't, that's why I reached out here XD I'm a teen member, but you only listen to adults, and as such, I'm unable to request a chat from you. I can create a forum thread for us to discuss, though; would that be okay with you?
@windflowers Sure i was thinking if you wanted to do the middle paragraph and then I could do the last and then we can discuss if we think there is anything we need to change. Also you can look over the symptoms I took from the DSM. :) sound like a plan?
