by ShayTooBad Mental Illness refers to a variety of mental health conditions. Depending on the situation, it can affect your mood, thinking, and behaviour. Some examples of these conditions are depression, bipolar, PTSD, anxiety, etc. If the mental illness is ongoing, it can eventually start taking control of your life. Which can later cause problems with your work, schooling, and relationships with others.
Some may wonder, how would you know if you are experiencing mental illness? The answer to that question is it depends on the disease. However, some common symptoms are feeling sad more than usual, fears and or worries all the time, alcohol or drug abuse, suicide thoughts, anger, and withdrawal from friends, family, and regular activities. Mental illness can also have a negative impact on a person physically; such as stomach pain, back pain, neck pain, and headaches. There are also specific risk factors that can cause someone to develop later mental health problems including, a blood relative who deals with mental health, financial issues, brain damage, and being abused and or negated as a child. How to prevent a mental illness? There is no exact way to stop mental illness. However, you should pay attention to warning signs early and let your doctor know immediately, and take good care of yourself. If anyone ever feels as they will harm their self, or someone else. Here are some people you can reach out to: • Call 911 or your local emergency number immediately. • Call your mental health specialist. • Contact a minister, spiritual leader or someone else in your faith community. • Call a suicide hotline number — in the U.S. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255). • This link is also extremely useful, which has a wide range of countries and hotlines: http://togetherweare-strong.tumblr.com/helpline
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This month our Staff took part in A battle of Reindeers and Elves. Staff was auto picked into groups and went head to head with each other. The team leaders and co leaders are as followed. Reindeer Leader - kiakeka Reindeer Co-Leader - -Kyna, Elves Leader - Vibrational Elves Co-Leader - Pahhh Elves has a total of 33 points* Reindeers have a total of 53 points* Games ranged up from fridge mole and many other games that made the teams gather points and coins. From these games held I believe that HDA staff have had a wonderful time reaching 21k members+ here in the year of 2017. Over all I think that we have developed good standards for staff of HDA providing them with times to have a social bonding moment with various members around HDA from Directors and up. This events end’s on the 27 AEST. We wish the teams well and a special shoutout to our Events Team members and the in command staff of the events team listed below. DoE - kiakeka HoE- Pahhh CoE - -Kyna, Special Shoutout to these members of the teams While HDA confessions is on hiatus, Sweetsugas has drawn some of HDA's favourites in 2017! Stay tuned as more are coming up soon!
by OfficerLarry As we move forward into the new year we have took on a new chatting system. Personally I wanted to see what the people said about it. After a few days I made the switch so as a so called “Geek” I wanted to give you the insider on the HDA Discord Server. Enjoy! This Guide will explain the tons of different features Discord has to offer. If you need help with mobile click here: tinyurl.com/HDAdiscord4mobile Why Discord? Well it's an All-in-one voice and text chat program which allows us to communicate with each other by voice, by channel chats in the voice, by text in the public chat and by in talking to people in private. This new program will not only let us voice and chat on a new level, but will allow the staff team to be more readily available. Either through the social chat or by private messaging them. Not to mention you get some pretty great features, which can be further explained here: discordapp.com/features One Important feature that is killer to me is the Discord Web Client: Signing up to use Discord is very simple. For starters, you don't even need to provide an email address to open Discord! If you open discordapp.com, you can click the "Open Discord" button, enter a username (you can always change this later!) , and hop right in. You'll be able to enjoy all of the chat functions Discord has to offer, but it's important to claim your account by verifying your email address. This will ensure that you keep your username and Discriminator (those four digits next to your user name), as well as remembering all the servers you've joined! Now how to do certain things within our server! As you know we have certain tags within our server. These tags help keep things balanced and make things easier to within HDA. Important tags: @BA - To Call on a Badge admin within the Request Chat or any chat (do it in Request because that's where all request are made @RR - To call upon a Room Rights Holder: This sends a direct message to the RR holders of HDA @RS - sends message to All Rank Sellers for people who want to buy a rank @BOD or any other tag within the image to speak directly to any of the members with that tag Important @ symbols and the Hashtag#: Hashtags are used for tagging members of that division in a message. If someone was sending a question at staff apart of Financial affairs or Internal Affairs you would use the #hashtag and it will let them know once viewing it that it was directed at them. @here - Mentions all members that are online on discord @everyone - Mentions everyone To send a custom message to a user and you want only them to be alerted type @[That Persons UserName] Example: @Calvin[OFL]2345 Important Chats: For every HDA member added to discord you are put into your divisional chat in command and up of course and then you have: Social: To talk about anything Request: To request badges and other things such as @RS - Rank Seller or @RR - room rights holder Announcements: For Staff to send ya those juicy announcements about the blog ahahah and everything else. Other settings:
Sweet styles you can use on discord: Italics = *italics* Underline italics = __*underline italics*__ Bold = **bold** Underline bold = __**underline bold**__ Bold italics = **bold italics** Underline bold italics = __***underline bold italics***__ Underline = __underline__ Strikethrough = ~~strikethrough~~ Simply write whatever message you wish to write and do the symbols where is needed to get the style you are after. Got a question about discord? Well you’re in luck, just ask Calvin[OFL] and I can help you. I have made it a hobby to know about discord as I am creating a bot.
The Christmas Season is here! As Christmas being the time of giving, here are the events lined up this month that can win you attractive prizes!
Advertising Competition The Advertising Competition is already well underway, starting from the 1st of December to the 20th of December. Since it’s the season of giving, our outgoing Director of Advertising - Iambrandon98, decided to reward the top 3 employees with the most recruits with 1 Month of HC! Go ahead and advertise your hearts out! If you have any further questions, you can contact hotwwwthega, skyroidol or blackaries. Official HDA Secret Santa We will be having a HDA Secret Santa hosted by the lovely Kiakeka. So what is Secret Santa, you ask? Secret Santa is a christmas tradition. Members of a group of friends, family or coworkers draw names to become someone’s Secret Santa. The Secret Santa is given a wish list of gift ideas to choose from to give to their chosen giftee. If you are interested in taking part, you can sign up at tinyurl.com/HDASecretSanta If you have any queries, you can contact Kiakeka. HDA 20K Celebration Recently HDA’s main badge has reached 20K members! There will be lots of exciting events happening in base during this month! Celebrate with your fellow HDA members as we enjoy our 20K milestone! Events Team members will be hosting 20 games in 24 hours [ 1 game for every 1K members] starting after first pay of 9 December till first pay of 10 December. Attractive prizes are to be won! In addition to the events already lined up, the Founders have decided to give a special treat! The Founders decided to remove all uniforms for all ranks starting on the 20th of December till the 1st of January! To confirm, uniforms will have to be put back on when the 1st of January comes. This is not only a Christmas present to all uniform wearers, but also a huge thank you for all the hard work that has been noticed over the past few weeks! HDA Compliments Kutybunni13 decided to reopen the compliments page! This will be open and running up till Christmas Eve ( 24 December). On Christmas day, the compliments will be posted! If you are interested to take part, you can go to tinyurl.com/complimentsHDA HDA Survey Since there has been quite a few changes this month, The Innovation team would like to gather your opinions about it! Everyone is encouraged to fill it up! Link of the survey : tinyurl.com/HDAmonthlysurvey HDA Christmas Event This christmas, the Events Team planned a fun team challenge [Like our recent Harry Potter Event] where elves will battle reindeers for christmas superiority. That’s all from me! I hope you all enjoy these events! Happy Holidays! by quackazz Submit your HDA screenshots HERE Believe it or not... This is our founder trolling with a troll Charli and Lucas both trying to get some attention and Kayla facing app struggles Old base being trashed VS new base opening
Written by Blake1419 Well, it’s been a long year indeed, and to acknowledge the new year that fast approaches, along with the HUGE milestone of reaching 20k members, the HDA Foundation has slaved away for days. Struggling through bad connections, tired bodies and caffeine induced all nighters to build the most spectacular base HDA has ever seen! Since opening it’s already hit the navigator with both HDA bases open at the same time with almost equal population! This amazing new room boasts two new features:
Another addition to getting a new base comes new badges for all ranks and extra divisions of HDA! This move over to new badges is due to the original emzywah account being perm banned, meaning the badges could no longer be edited. This process of leaving old badges and joining new badges is estimated to take a while, so while it’s happening 4ic+ would like to ask patience as we also have to move badge admins onto the new badges in order to make accepting faster, so please be patient!
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