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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
How We Try to Fill the Hole Inside: The Crazy Cycle
It’s astonishing how feeling-based, subjective, and cyclical many of our beliefs are. It’s not only us drug addicts, but food addicts, womanizers (sex addicts), bulimics, anorexics, alcoholics, nicotine addicts, social media addicts, game addicts, all of us, relentlessly seek the things that make us feel good. As we pursue them, we experience a sensation of momentary but fading satisfaction. If we want to feel that way again, we need more. Round and round we go, each time through the cycle our dependence increases. Outwardly, as we strive to find purpose and meaning we go through cycles. Inwardly our brain goes through similar cycles.
By Michael J. Heil5 years ago in Psyche
How To Avoid Stress
Stress is something that nobody can avoid forever. Stressful situations will always come up when you least expect them and they will literally destroy you mentally most of the time. If you're not equipped with the knowledge of how to deal with these stressful situations then you will most likely crumb under pressure and lose your temper.
By 8illionaire Marketing5 years ago in Psyche
Happiness Is Created, Not Found
In the 2006 film, “The Pursuit of Happyness” (yes, that’s how it’s spelled), Will Smith’s character is a poor, unhappy salesman. Through hard work and a bit of luck, he lands a high paying job as a stockbroker, is then able to afford everything he wants, and therefore becomes happy. It’s the same old premise: external stimuli make you happy. We’ve seen it in countless other stories, and it shapes most of our lives.
By The Happy Neuron5 years ago in Psyche
Why Focusing On The Present Can Help Alleviate Your Pandemic Depression
There is no doubt that the impact of Pandemic has affected more people mental health than the actual virus itself. I am one of such. I have been working from home since last year May, and the whole UK, is on total lockdown means social outing of any kind is restricted. I am not that much a social type of person, nevertheless, I do feel the fact of not being able to just go out whenever I like is curtailing.
By Lanu Pitan5 years ago in Psyche
Humans
Life is anything but normal these days. There have been many days over the last year that I question if I can even remember what normal life used to be like. In all honesty, I don't know why I find myself perplexed. My life, by most people's standards, has been anything but normal. I am one of the millions of people world wide who struggle with mental health issues. A lot of issues. Like.... a lot.
By Wendy Sanders5 years ago in Psyche
Reclaiming Your Mental Health
Mental health is an issue in America, and many other countries, during the best of times. In 2019, the National Institute of Mental Health conducted a study that revealed that 51.5 million Americans were living with a mental illness. That number equates to nearly 1 in 5 American adults, and that was before our world was thrust into a viral pandemic! Our country has been through more trials over the last year than most of us have seen in our lifetime and it has had a strong effect on those of us suffering from diagnosed (or undiagnosed) mental health disorders. As someone who suffers from both generalized anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder, I understand how difficult this year has been, and it has been difficult, make no mistake about that. For those of you who are reading this and suffering as well, I hear you, I feel for you, and you are not alone. This will not last forever. You will feel happy and healthy again.
By Emily Flanagan 5 years ago in Psyche
Productivity Guide for the Mentally Ill
Sometimes it is hard for a mentally ill person to muster up the motivation to get anything done. It is hard for the chronically ill to muster up that same energy. Energy is a force in your body that you can channel even if having too many goals on your to-do list causes you stress. I feel a stress rush in my head whenever I log into my online Wizardry school. That rush is worse with a regular school which is why I have kept myself away from my local junior college's website even if I feel I need to get a transcript that tells the sorry tale of how I overloaded myself most of college, which was a time filled with alcoholism and coffee addiction to cope with the stress along with massive sugar addiction.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez5 years ago in Psyche
Don’t devalue your present by neglecting your past and not investing in the future
Now matter how strong your mental strength is right now, life is tough. You don’t know if you’re coming or going, you don’t know what you can and can’t do and you don’t know how you’re going to be cope much longer.
By Matthew Grantham5 years ago in Psyche
Depression: Unraveling Slowly
Depression. The worst possible thing you could feel when you were once feeling so happy. Maybe it was something you did wrong, or maybe it just wasn't your day. Either way, depression sucks. Sometimes it's just something we have to deal with. Sometimes it's completely situational, other times we just feel stuck in rock bottom.
By Michelle White5 years ago in Psyche
