We often talk about mental health in the context of disorders. These are the thoughts and behaviors that show that you’re mentally ill. We don’t spend half as much time on mental wellness. Mental health isn’t just about when things go wrong; it’s about your overall mental state, good or bad. The World Health Organization […]
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Your foot taps. You rub your sweaty palms. You play it over and over again in your mind. Your heart races and you don’t know how to escape. Now, imagine that happens all the time. Imagine that every time you manage to catch your breath, another fearful thought crawls inside you and makes everything bad
Depression is a word that may be used to describe a general state of low mood or a range of mental health conditions that come under the heading of mood disorders. There are some things in common between them, but it can be pretty helpful to understand what each kind means. If you’re thinking of
Sometimes we talk about physical and mental health like they’re two separate things, but actually they’re pretty closely linked. When your physical health is poor, it can lead to low moods and even outright depression. Poor mental health interferes with motivation and concentration, making it hard to maintain an exercise routine. Conversely, when you look
Anxiety isn’t just feeling a bit nervous. It’s an ongoing and often irrational fear that you can’t escape. As soon as one anxious thought is quieted, another jumps in to take its place. At its worst, it causes physical as well as mental symptoms, but there are ways to manage it. Symptoms of anxiety can
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When you’re feeling low, people might tell you to go and take a stroll in the fresh air or try some yoga. That’s all very well if you are just having one of those temporary dark moods that everyone has sometimes, but if you’re experiencing clinical depression, even those small steps to alleviate it may
It’s taken a while, but people are finally starting to realize that mental health is just as important as physical health and needs just as much care. We’ve still got a way to go before attitudes – and available treatments – catch up with those for physical health, but it’s amazing to think how quickly
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We all have our worries and our fears. Sometimes, they embed so deep that they’re a source of constant stress. When your anxieties reach the point where they stop you from living your everyday life, they may have gone past what can just be dismissed as human nature. In general, anxiety refers to ongoing unease.
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People have been experiencing dark moods for as long as humanity has existed. Sometimes they’re for understandable reasons, like the loss of a loved one or because of ongoing life problems. Sometimes they seem to appear from nowhere. It’s only more recently that we’ve really started to understand depression as an illness. There are a
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It’s six o’clock on a cold, dark morning and your alarm goes off. Do you really want to get up? If you’re going on vacation, you’ll probably be able to make the push, but if it’s for work or the gym, it might be a little more tricky. You need to find that motivation somewhere
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