The state of your mental health plays an important role in everyday life. Most people don’t even realize the importance and impact mental health has on their thoughts, emotions and behavior. Let’s look at some of the major areas of life where maintaining a good mental health balance is key to living your best life. …
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Self-care. Those two little buzzwords seem to be on the tips of tongues just about anywhere you look, whether it’s social media, in magazines, or on TV. It seems like everyone has an opinion about what self-care is, whether it’s important, and how to improve it. The World Health Organization (WHO) has even declared Self-Care …
Illness of any type, whether physical or mental, can be challenging. Until recent years, a mental illness diagnosis traditionally came with a host of myths, stigmas, and misconceptions, leading individuals to suffer in silence for fear of judgment rather than seek the treatment they need. Some common myths and misconceptions: • Mental illness is …
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So many of us had to face the initial anxiety that was brought on by the country shutting down during the COVID pandemic and the ongoing anxiety about how long the pandemic would last; wanting our way of life to get back to normal. It was a major transition to learn to live more isolated …
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Normalizing Pandemic Anxiety Concerns about coronavirus (COVID-19) are warranted right now, given that it has been designated a global pandemic, and the vaccine for the virus is not yet available. While optimal levels of anxiety can help us to plan and prepare to keep ourselves safe, and our brains are hardwired with the fight—flight-and flee …