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What You Eat Matters: 7 Healthy Foods That Can Help WIth Addiction Recovery
Addiction is an illness that permeates every area of your life. Like many other diseases, it can be overcome. The process of recovery is not easy, however. The foods you eat can help support your recovery as they meet your nutritional needs. Some may even help repair damage to organs from substance abuse. You know that what you put into your body has consequences. So, instead of binging on sweets or junk food, take the time to learn what foods will help you work through the recovery process.
By Craig Middleton6 years ago in Psyche
Reasons for Loneliness and Ways to Overcome It
Everyone in their life feels lonely at least once. When you start getting this feeling called loneliness, then no matter how many people surround you, it is still felt. It seems like you have lost interest in life, and you are aimless. You feel like there is no reason for being alive and such things. So the important thing is to know the reasons why you are feeling lonely and how you can overcome it.
By Dilip Kumar G6 years ago in Psyche
Managing Depression & Anxiety through the Pandemic
It’s a beautiful June morning in the spring of 2020. A year none of us living will ever forget. A year that will be written about in history books for future generations. Whether we are 90 years old or merely a child, this year will be personally life changing. There is A LOT going on. The Novotel Corona virus combined with the global protests to fight for equality have created a new world that we all now live in. What we know and how we live our lives has been turned upside down and inside out. Nothing is the same. In terms of employment, which is so critical to living a comfortable life, some of us are fortunate enough to be able to work from home. Some of us have found ourselves unemployed and some of us are essential workers who are both physically and mentally exhausted. We now are afraid about our futures and in some cases, people are afraid about where their next meal will come from, how they will feed their children and how they will ever recover from this dark place. But wait…
By Susan Shier6 years ago in Psyche
Dear Black Girl, Your Life Matters, So Please Meditate. Top Story - June 2020.
Dear (Suburban) Black Girl, You are *magical*, yes. You are a queen, full stop, period. I’m not here to tell you that you shouldn’t pick your head up, dust it off, and keep it pushing when the haters (or systemic racism) get you down. It can actually be challenging to maintain a smile sometimes, to be the source of strength that many seek for inspiration. I understand what it means to have to laugh off the jokes your friends say when you’re the only one who looks like you in your friend group. It can be a challenge to feel different, to know you are different, but to seek so much normalcy and “sameness” anyways.
By Erin Jones-Wesley6 years ago in Psyche
Self Care Wear
For most of my life, I’ve struggled with multiple mental health illnesses -- from depression and anxiety to anorexia and attention deficit disorder. And then some. As I got older, I realized how misunderstood these illnesses are and how many people feel uncomfortable talking about them. Because mental health has always been a part of my life, I’ve never felt uncomfortable talking about my illnesses, but rather felt ashamed and overwhelmed. And today, I am no longer ashamed. I’ve accepted all of my diagnoses and openly talk about them. Mental illnesses are not something to be ashamed of or feel uncomfortable talking about. Recently, I took the steps to continue raising awareness and supporting mental health.
By Shaley Speaks6 years ago in Psyche
Top 10 Ways How to Overcome Depression.
1. Turn On Your Music how to overcome depression Overcome Depression It's almost impossible to seek out someone who doesn't feel a robust connection to music. Even if you cannot carry a tune or play an instrument, you'll probably reel off an inventory of songs that evoke happy memories and lift your spirits. Surgeons have long played their favorite music to alleviate stress within the OR, and increasing music to patients has been linked to improved surgical outcomes. In the past few decades, music therapy has played an increasing role altogether facets of healing.
By Ayush Goyal6 years ago in Psyche
Illuminating Narcissism
As I talked about in part one of this ongoing series to illuminate narcissist personality disorder, narcissism wasn’t something I was really even aware of but being an empath I’m extremely observant and I understand human nature quite well so when the love bombing starting to take place I knew that something was off. It was like a script out of a movie, the fairytale love story that only one could hope for but in reality it too was too good to be true.
By Angela Fosnaugh6 years ago in Psyche
Be Gone, Thoughts!
You know those annoying, often disturbing and weird thoughts you have that come out of nowhere? You could be lighting a nice smelling candle, and all of a sudden, your brain will say something along the lines of: "Burn your house down!" Maybe you even feel tempted to act on it, and come close to actually burning something. Pretty scary stuff, right? Well, that would be the work of an intrusive thought.
By Mary Molluso6 years ago in Psyche
Illuminating Narcissism
Until six years ago, the term narcissist wasn’t even in my vocabulary. I had known people who used, who manipulated and showed little remorse for what they did to others but I wasn’t aware that there was an actual diagnosis for what abuse these people caused to others.
By Angela Fosnaugh6 years ago in Psyche
