Tag: mental health
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On Eating Up and Why Brownies are Good for the Soul
A sweet, salty, sure-fire cure for Sunday evening blues.
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Things Not To Say To Someone With a Mental Illness (pt. 2)
Mental illness is not something anyone chooses. Emotional suffering is not a lifestyle choice.
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One Month after Mental Health Awareness Day: Dogs and Depression [spon]
Mental Health Awareness Day was a month ago today. Here are two amazing resources about anxiety and depression, including why dogs can be a big help.
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On the importance, and difficulty, of self-care
Mental health problems are tough and self-care is really tough. Here’s something small that I found helped just a little.
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A note on #WorldMentalHealthDay
On this World Mental Health Day I’m going to share two of the things that help me, and three things that are true of you — and everyone else.
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On Selfies, Self-Confidence, and Society
Making a conscious, public decision to show the world your face — in all its glory — is a powerful thing, and it shows a level of self-confidence and self-acceptance that should only be encouraged.
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On Hypnotherapy
It’s been a while since I’ve posted! As I have said before on this blog, for most of my life I have had problems with my mental health, and I take medication for this. Usually, the medication works and I feel that I am pretty level-headed and sensible. But sometimes — like now, incidentally — life events…
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What does “anxiety” even mean? – an amazing comic
What does “anxiety” even mean? I really don’t want this blog to become all about these topics, but I have been diagnosed with two mental illness. They are Generalised Anxiety Disorder (which means that I often get extremely, earth-shatteringly anxious about very trivial or bizarre things) and Recurrent Depressive Disorder (which means that I become…
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What does "anxiety" even mean? – an amazing comic
What does “anxiety” even mean? I really don’t want this blog to become all about these topics, but I have been diagnosed with two mental illness. They are Generalised Anxiety Disorder (which means that I often get extremely, earth-shatteringly anxious about very trivial or bizarre things) and Recurrent Depressive Disorder (which means that I become…