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Minds Over Meetings: A Conversation about Mental Health in the Workplace
Workplace Mental Health has become an increasingly more discussed topic since COVID. Employers are seeing more employees seeking mental health friendly workplaces and company mental health resources. Author and Mental Health Advocate, Kody Green, discusses the difficulties he experienced learning to cope with a mental health diagnosis in the workplace.
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Understanding Mental Illness/ Understanding Schizophrenia
General understanding of schizophrenia and mental illness has improved greatly in the past 10 years, but there is still a lot of misinformation and stigma surrounding these topics. Kody uses a combination of lived experience and peer reviewed research to help audiences better understand serious mental illness and how it affects individuals.
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Addiction Recovery
Substance Use Disorder is a nationwide issue and understanding the correlation between mental illness and addiction can help to show how funding and resources can provide relief to those who are struggling. Kody discusses the difficult topic of addiction, using his own lived experience as a person in recovery.
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Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)
Police and Emergency Response teams are some of the most crucial individuals in the lives of people with schizophrenia or serious mental illness, as they statistically have very frequent interactions with these groups. Kody Green, a person living with schizophrenia, can share his lived experiences with Law Enforcement and EMTS to help create a better understanding of how to interact with those who might be in crisis. Sharing both positive and negative interactions with law enforcement, and the results that came from these interactions give emergency response teams an inside understanding to someone who my be in active psychosis or addiction.
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Schizophrenia Advocate, Author of “Minds Over Meetings”
Kody Green (He/Him) is a 30-year-old diagnosed with Schizophrenia. He is a motivational speaker and content creator with a following of over 1 million on TikTok. Kody’s journey has included challenges with drug addiction, incarceration, and serious mental health struggles.
To deepen his impact as an advocate and speaker, Kody trained as a peer support specialist, recovery coach, and suicide prevention specialist.
Today, he shares his personal experiences and insights on overcoming adversity, navigating mental health challenges, and rebuilding life after incarceration. Kody’s dedication to mental health advocacy, schizophrenia awareness, neurodiversity, drug recovery, and mental health in the workplace is fueled by his own lived experiences.
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‘Mind Over Meetings’ offers workplace strategies for people with mental illnessAs a young teenager, Kody Green experienced the demands of mental illness, learning how to be a family caregiver.
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Man’s dog helps with schizophrenia hallucinations: Why psychiatric service dogs are helpful, but hard to get.Kody Green started having auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as paranoia and delusions, during his freshman year of college.
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This Is What Having Schizophrenia Is Really LikeKody Green, host of the podcast Unseen & Unheard, talks about how living with a serious mental illness has shaped his life.
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New book by local social media star focuses on workplace mental wellness(WXOW) - With millions of followers on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, Kody Green is an advocate known for his transparency in his battle with Schizophrenia.
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“I Decided to Be a Mental Health Advocate. Here’s Why I’m Glad I Did”Two men describe why they took to social media to increase awareness.
