10 great ways to boost your mental health at home
Mental health is a physiological state of well-being in which you are capable of coping with daily life stresses and can fulfill your responsibilities towards yourself and society. Like physical health, mental health is of prime importance, the sound mind in a sound body fulfills the requirement of health. Every one of four individuals face […]
Anxiety, Depression, and the Holidays
Holidays are times when we celebrate ourselves. Could be religious, could be personal, could be communal in some manner, but the bottom line is that a holiday is a day in which something happy is being commemorated in some way. Very often with practical manifestations including food, drink, partying of some type, and social camaraderie. […]
The Snowball Effect
Does a Negative thought-feeling need to cause another one, and do these need to become a vicious cycle? Whenever emotional events happen, it always has the potential to trigger another emotional event in its wake. This can be positive, negative, or neutral, but for someone who is already having difficulty with mental health in some […]
What do most (or all) couples fight about, and BONUS: how do you fight in a better way?
What do most (or all) couples fight about, and BONUS: how do you fight in a better way? All Couples fight about all the same issues you do, mostly issues you probably can think of pretty easily. And the way to fight better is to do it in a way that hurts your partner the […]
Is pride good or bad?
For whatever reason, the word “pride” tends to evoke a negative reaction from people. Whether it’s telling someone that they are acting proud, the concept of pride in general, just thinking about the idea of feeling pride, all tend to elicit negative feelings. Some types of things you might hear are that it’s better to […]
Tips for surviving (and possibly improving!) your relationship during COVID-19 quarantine
As you’re probably aware, there’s currently a health crisis that’s caused everyone to be stuck home for the past 2 months, and it’s not over yet. This situation has brought out many different dynamics in interpersonal relationships, one of the main ones being that relationships with spouses and significant others have been affected. When you […]
Insurance and Drug-Based Treatments for Depression
It’s good to see that the FDA is finally looking more outside the box for new drug-based treatments for depression [NPR.org article. There are plenty of people who the typical SSRIs that have been the “standard of care” for 20+years (Prozac etc.) don’t work on. The problem is, 1: that it took them this long, […]