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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
5 Things To Do in a Mental Health Crisis
A mental health crisis may consist of extreme anxiety, depression or feeling suicidal. For me, it's generally a mix of all three. This results in a rush of energy, feeling like I can't keep still or think straight, feeling like I can't breathe or am drowning and just utter terror that this is the beginning and things are about to get so, so much worse.
By The 'A' Girl7 years ago in Psyche
Anxiety
Anxiety is the name we give to our feelings of worry, fear, apprehension, and nervousness. It is not a mental illness. It is the appropriate nervous reaction that human beings developed when we first evolved to tell us when we were in a dangerous situation. Many of our fears and worries a justified. We may be worried about taking an exam or that a person we love is suffering. Anxiety may, however, occur without cause or it may be that we are more worried about a difficult situation that it warrants. People who suffer from severe anxiety find it can have a serious impact on their daily lives.
By Clare Scanlan7 years ago in Psyche
The Hole
I was there against my will, and I knew it was the place that I needed to be. See, I asked for help and protection from myself. I didn't trust myself anymore because I had a plan, a workable plan, and I intended to put that plan into motion three days ago. My plan consisted of a wooded area, a hose, a car exhaust and a sunny final day of my life.
By Rachael Merrick7 years ago in Psyche
Going in the Deep End
I was asked one time on how my anxiety started. When having anxiety and dealing with it for many years, that answer was nearly impossible to answer. Before you know it, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and on and on and on and on. Then you start asking yourself questions to determine the answer to the first question. Your brain takes you to the deaths of loved ones. Then the memories and emotions start flowing of the wonderful times you had with them. Before you know it, there are things rapidly stemming off in every direction like a chaotic flow chart without any end. Your anxiety that was only playing with you like a cat chasing a string has now become thoughts of regrets and what if's to take total control of all mental functions. Answers? Answers don't come easy when dealing with anxiety.
By Son Of A Fitch7 years ago in Psyche
Signs That You Need To Switch Therapists
As many people can tell you, getting therapy as a way to cope with mental illness, tough times, and trauma is a brilliant move. The right therapist can help you see problems in your relationships from a new perspective, help you learn life-saving coping mechanisms, and also give you the tools you need in order to heal.
By James Porterson7 years ago in Psyche
Think Good Thoughts. Top Story - August 2017.
I remember thinking that I was a pretty positive person and that circumstances just got in the way of the real progress I wanted in my life. Growing up I kept a diary of things that I was dealing with and the questions I had regarding the way things would go. Life would present challenges and I kept my chin up and made sure that I spoke optimistically.
By Marilen Crump7 years ago in Psyche
Best Mental Health Experts To Follow On Twitter
The social media universe is the place we go to vent, discuss, collaborate, shop, learn, watch, consume, and waste time. For all the gratuitous chatter and trivialities, social platforms are a hotbed of advice, counseling and insight that you can take with you when you log off; you need only know where to look. One of the most productive applications of Twitter, and other online communities, is in the value it offers to individuals who are struggling with personal, difficult mental health disorders; even if they do not feel comfortable sharing their experience, they can find someone who is struggling with something similar or who can give them scientific insight into why their mental health state and emotions are what they are. In these digitally savvy mental health experts we see social media at its finest.
By David McCleary7 years ago in Psyche
The Glorification of Depression and Its Disastrous Consequences
15 Habits of People With Concealed Depression Bullhickey! WARNING: What you're about to read may SEEM heartless. If this article above is the case then everyone's depressed. I personally find this to be yet another pandering article written for people to out-depress each other and pick up more quirky annoying little habits they THINK they're being mysterious about because it's the only attention they like to get instead of getting off their behinds, going outside and getting some form of exercise. Feelings of sadness and nonacceptance are natural feelings EVERYONE goes through at times. To actually SUFFER from DEPRESSION is REAL for many people. Unfortunately, like with gluten, tons of people feeling out of the trendy loop jumped onto the latest illness craze making a mockery of those who actually feel they're expelling half of their intestines out after eating a slice of bread. Most people claiming to be "depressed" these media fueled days are in all actuality just sad. I'm not a doctor. My opinion is only based on observation from people I see, know and read throughout social media. Sad is okay. Sad is GOOD. It helps you appreciate happiness much more when you find yourself in the midst of it. You do not need dangerous drugs for sad nor do you don't need 200 likes on your sad selfie in order to get help. No one cares that you lay around in your jammies all day while everyone else goes to work (some of whom are actually suffering from depression and don't even know it as many REAL sufferers don't). You CANNOT always see depression. At least not if you go by the type articles above. But you can express love to those around you in hopes that at least one kind gesture or whatever clustering of words you manage to spit out of your simple little mouth can actually lift them up for another day, week or year. In other words, UNIVERSAL KINDNESS may not be a cure but it can go a long way.
By Rooster Robinson7 years ago in Psyche
Dating Mental Illness
According to the World Health Organization, one in four people will be affected by a "mental or neurological disorder." They claim 450 million people are currently suffering from some form of mental illness. So there is a rather decent chance that the person you are going to fall in love with, or have fallen in love with is dealing with some phantom trauma. For me, it's living with anxiety, mania, depression, and autism. Mental illness isn't some fun thing you get to claim as an excuse to bask in the toxicity of your behaviors. It's a real, life altering, problem. And it makes things so much harder than they need to be. Especially relationships. There are, however, a few things you need to remember if you are dealing with a mental disorder.
By Duece Confucius7 years ago in Psyche