Gambling is big business in Oklahoma. In 2016, Oklahoma’s tribal gaming revenue was up 3 percent. Thousands of Oklahomans gamble without suffering any ill effects. But an unlucky few risk becoming problem gamblers. Of those, there are two basic types: action gamblers, who love the act of gambling, and escape gamblers, those who gamble to “zone…
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Eight-year-old, Julie, and best friend, Emma, just had a fight at school. Emma took Julie’s favorite barbie doll without asking and Julie keeps thinking how much she hates her friend and wants to pull her hair. If Julie had the right coping tools, deep breathing and try to talk it out with her instead of…
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Random acts of kindness can make a person’s day. Even if it is an hour out of your day helping out at your local food bank, helping serve food at Salvation Army, and more. Volunteering your time and energy is a HUGE act of kindness. Research has shown that doing good does you good. Altruism…
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Greer Fites, a 1978 graduate of The University of Oklahoma School of Social Work (OUSSW), has held a variety of positions at a number of agencies in the mental health field. She began her career at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) in Norman Oklahoma, at what is now known…
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Tonight, approximately 811 people will sleep homeless in Tulsa. About 33% of them also have mental illnesses that are not treated. Many have struggled for years to become stable and many find it hard to do so because they are just coming out of prisons, jails, hospitals and mental health facilities with nowhere to go.…
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