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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Participating in sports can be pretty stressful. That’s true even if the only person you’re facing is yourself, but the anxiety skyrockets if you’re competing against others. There are so many different kinds of pressure, it’s no wonder that sports are associated with anxiety. There’s the pressure to win. There’s the desperation not to let
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Depression is a complicated condition. It seems it can spring up anywhere, at any time, and not always with an obvious cause. As with many mental illnesses, there appears to be a mix of biological and environmental factors that can influence its development. One of these factors is physical mobility. There seems to be a
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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