Are Pets Good for Your Mental Health?
An animal companion can be a loyal friend and a valuable member of your family, plus, pets provide companionship and unconditional love
Category: Mental health
Benefits of Keeping a Journal
Journaling is an inexpensive, effective activity that can help you make sense of your thoughts, feelings and perspectives. It gives you a chance to slow down and de-stress, release tensions and provide closure to your emotions.
COVID-19-Driven Changes That Should Be the New Normal
The pandemic was incredibly challenging on several levels. Not only did it cause great mental and financial hardship, but it also underscored the unpredictability of life. Still, as turbulent and traumatic as the event was, it imparted many valuable lessons and was a catalyst for far-reaching, positive change. Below, Nursing With Anitha takes a look at corona-induced changes that we think should be the new normal moving forward
How to break free from your negative emotions
Negative emotions such as fear and heartache can affect your body and mind, leading to dysfunctional relationships, depression, stress, and disease. So, it’s important to not only be aware of your emotions, but also what you can do to release them.
Discussing suicide: How to support someone you’re worried about
September is suicide awareness month. How do you support someone you are concerned about?
Adult ADHD- A character flaw or a real illness?
ADHD is a syndrome of the brain manifested mainly due to a abnormal brain chemistry, brain structure, and the connectivity of their neurons. Plainly said, an individual suffering from ADHD has no control over the development of their symptoms, but with proper support and treatment, one can learn to effectively go about their day-to-day responsibilities.
Toxic Masculinity: What you need to know
Men are often expected to develop super human coping capabilities that often involve striving hard in the face of prolonged stress and discrimination. This has resulted in lesser reporting of depressive episodes in men but the fact however remains that they complete suicide at far higher rates than women. While it may feel nice to encourage certain aspects of masculinity, like power, toughness and self-sacrifice in some instances, one must be proactive to realize that the same tough demeanor that might save a fighter in a war field can destroy it at home with a romantic partner or child.
All about PTSD: Facts you need to know
Exposure to one or more traumatic events can change how we view the world and what constitutes right and wrong; distorting our sense of the past and present; where the past can intrude into the present at any time in unpredictable and distressing way
How to Maintain Healthy Boundaries with Your Adult Children
Watching your little one growing up could hurt at times. The ambivalence one feels as they try to figure out ‘adulting’, while going through the painful lessons that life so often does seem to teach-can be nerve wrecking to most parents. The separation anxiety is now shifted from the child to the parent. There is sadness and emptiness as much as there is relief.
Gaslighting-All you need to know
Sadly, gas lighters are everywhere. They are found in every kind of relationship, including personal, intimate, social and even professional. They are found among politicians, celebrities or even in your own surroundings. They could be your family member, your neighbor, co-worker, manager, or even that social media influencer whose fan you are. It works on a single principle:
“If you repeat a lie often enough; people will eventually start believing it”
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