Mental Health
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7 Successful People Who Dealt With Depression
Referred to for many centuries as “melancholia,” clinical depression has long been misunderstood and stigmatized. However, those who have experienced real depression know that’s far from true. Depression is a very real form of mental illness, and it's far more serious than most people realize. Take ...
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A Match Made in Heaven: 6 Signs You've Found Your Kindred Spirit
Have you found your kindred soul? Picture going to a coffee shop, poetry event, or music festival or attending a class at university and meeting someone you instantly connect with.You know, the kind of conversations and engagement you would with trust and years familiarizing yourself with said perso...
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Surrender: How I Overcame Alcoholism and Depression
I used to wonder if I lived in the dark or if the dark lived in me. Was I like one of those cartoons in the depression commercials walking around with a gray cloud over my head or was I a manufacturer of gray clouds? Growing up, I always thought there was something inherently wrong with me yet I cou...
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Why Are People So Unhappy?
Jack Lalanne - Smile, Enjoy, Appreciate Transcript: "You notice how the people in this great country of ours are so unhappy. You don't see very many smiling people anymore. People have lost the ability to smile. This is right. Next time you walk down the street or you're in a bus or a street car, yo...
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How To Manifest Anything: The 12 Steps To Take To Make Your Dreams a Reality
The idea behind manifestation is that you can bring something into your life through thought, attraction, emotion and belief. But how does manifestation work exactly? Can you really manifest things like a dream job or an ideal partner? Is manifesting love or a higher salary even possible? Manifestin...
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Social Media Addiction: How to Protect Yourself
In the early days of social media, checking in on your friends and loved ones through social platforms required you to physically log on to a computer. With only a few platforms available, it was easy to limit social media usage, using it to stay connected and update others on your personal and prof...
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Self-care: What It Is and Why It's Important
When you think of self care practice, you might conjure up images of treating yourself to a relaxing day at the spa, or a long, luxurious bath at the end of a long day as a way to manage stress. While the retail industry has plenty of products on the market that promote self care in an indulgent way...
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Overcoming Depression: What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up
* Feature image uses photos by Joe Shields and Stormseeker on Unsplash.WARNING: Some readers may find the language in this article upsetting, especially discussions of self harm and suicide. If you are having suicidal thoughts, please seek help immediately. You can contact the National Suicide Preve...
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Time Anxiety: Your Relationship With The Clock Dictates Your Happiness
Time is fascinating. It’s a precious commodity that gives life a sense of orientation. It’s the framework in which our lives unfold. It’s a path that fits individual lives into the journey of humanity. But for all its significance, defining time is incredibly difficult — psychologists, physicists, a...
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Dealing With Depression: How I'm Managing My Bouts of Recurring Depression
Depression remains a jargon to many. If you’d ask people about their notions about it, they’d simply say that it is “just a period of blues.” However, that’s only one underlying symptom of this mental illness. It consumes your energy, enthusiasm, and existence in an inexplicable way. Dealing With De...
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3 Surprising Ways a Weighted Blanket Can Ease Anxiety Symptoms
If you suffer from anxiety, you’re not alone. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the U.S. daily, according to the Anxiety & Depression Association of America. Seeking professional help for mental health struggles is always a good idea. That being said, a weighted blanket can help alleviat...
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Is Golf Addiction a Risk to Your Health?
The sun is shining, birds are chirping, the breeze is just right. The morning has begun and your first thought is: this is a perfect day for golf. Out of all sports, golf is one of the most wholesome. There’s a reason why many top-level executives take to the green during negotiations or networking ...
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The Lifestyle of Happiness: Why It's Not All In Your Head
We often hear that happiness isn't something that just arrives at your doorstep one day, wrapped neatly in a bow. We remind ourselves all the time that it's a state of mind more than anything else, that it's a life skill to be developed and strengthened with time, and that it's always a process. All...
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How Does Your Physical Fitness Impact Your Mental Health?
Well, it has always been a known fact that our mind and body have an intricate relationship. So, when you feel ill it’s very obvious that you’ll not be feeling mentally refreshed and vibrant. For example, if someone is suffering from a deadly disease then normally it happens like that he or she will...
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3 Steps to Combat Anxiety and Build Your Resilience to Stress
Feeling stressed? When anxiety builds, it’s easy to move quickly into feeling overwhelmed. We all experience short-term periods of worry and anxiety at different stages, but if it’s impacting your life in a negative way it might be time to think about how to manage it. Left unchecked, anxiety can st...
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8 Habits You Need to Lock Down for a Strong, Healthy Mind and Body
What does a complete, all-encompassing plan for maximizing our physical and mental well-being look like? That’s a question that’s been on my mind for some time now and one I’ve sought to answer. Over the past decade, I’ve gone from intensely focusing on physical fitness -- in an attempt to become a ...
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21 Celebrities Share Their Personal Struggle With Mental Illness, Inspire Us With Their Bravery
Editor’s Note: Struggling and feeling hopeless? You are not alone. Please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). We all struggle with feeling a little sad or a little anxious every now and then, but when those feelings of self-doubt and hopelessness overtake our day-...
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3 Key Differences Between Stress and Anxiety
Often used interchangeable, and sharing symptoms and triggers, stress and anxiety nevertheless are quite different things. Yes, both can be triggered by outside factors such as deadlines, financial difficulties and oversized workloads. And yes they do also share symptoms such as elevated heart rate ...
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After Years Of Battling Her Demons, She Took Charge and Lost 165 Pounds
After years of battling food addiction, depression and substance abuse, Courtney Maguire finally decided to quit drinking and turned her life around.At her heaviest, she weighed 310 pounds.“A lot of the time I was in denial of how big I was,” Courtney told the Daily Mail.I avoided mirrors, scales, p...
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What Happened to Alicia Silverstone? The Clueless Star Who Lost The Spotlight
Do you ever watch 90’s movies, get blown away by a particular actor or actress, and wonder what became of them?When Alicia Silverstone sashayed down the school halls in a sparkling yellow plaid outfit in Clueless, audiences knew. They thought they were seeing the genesis of America’s Next Sweetheart...
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