We creak a bit sometimes, especially as we grow older. Bones and muscles become stiff, and it can be easier just to stay at home rather than making a sometimes painful effort to go out. But that’s the wrong attitude. It leads to isolation, which can be the worst thing for your mental health. Luckily, […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if anxiety was something that you could take one pill to address, and then it was done? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Anxiety tends to be an ongoing thing, and that means you need to figure out how to tackle it on a daily basis. Some days will be easier than
Sometimes it’s the little things. Getting out of bed on time. Returning a friend’s phone call. Bothering to cook dinner. Depression can hit us in all kinds of apparently small ways that soon become more than an inconvenience. One of the first signs of depression, even if it’s not always talked about, is letting your
Setting a goal, taking steps to reach that goal, and achieving that goal… to follow that path, you need motivation. In its most basic terms, it’s why we do things. It’s what pushes things from an idea to an action. Figuring out why is the first step to making yourself do something that you might
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Some people might say that getting your head in the right mindset to be an athlete is something that you either can do or you can’t. It’s something entirely up to the individual competitor. While the importance of mindset to the sportsman can’t be denied, it would be a mistake to say you have to
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There are a few areas of health where you’ll find the word recovery. It can refer to physical injury, the period after surgery, and the aftermath of a mental health episode. It’s also a common word when it comes to the treatment of addiction. When it comes to addiction, recovery doesn’t mean a cure. It
Psychosis. Even today, when people have become a lot more open-minded and understanding of mental illness, it’s a word that some hear with dread. It’s full of stereotypes and misunderstandings that can stop sufferers from receiving support. It is not uncommon to hear terms like “psychosis” or “psychotic” thrown around as generic synonyms for dangerously
You’ve probably heard of mindfulness. It has become increasingly popular in recent years, although it is by no means a modern phenomenon. It’s actually inspired by Buddhist practices that stretch back millennia. Today, one of the main areas where it is used is in the management of anxiety, but does it actually work? Mindfulness is
One of the tricky things about mental illnesses is that they rarely exist on their own. Not only are they a complicated combination of different causes and symptoms, having one mental illness doesn’t exclude you from having others at the same time. That can make both diagnosis and treatment a lot more difficult. Diseases that
You might think of energy as a physical thing, driven by what we eat and how much exercise we do. That’s true, but it’s not the whole story. Your mental health can have a big impact on your energy levels, so if you want to be raring to go, you need to take care of
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