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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
Speak the F*** Up
Giving slack. Staying quiet. Telling myself, He’s going through so much, I don’t want to add to his frustration. The line he just crossed can be overlooked this one time. Or maybe this second time. “Shut the f*** up”, he says as a lighthearted joke. I ask him not to, but he says it again.
By Lauren Opal4 years ago in Psyche
3 Traits of Socially Confident People.
One of the consequences of the Coronavirus has been increasing loneliness. Regardless of our characteristics, humans are social creatures. To live a happy and successful life, we need to interact with others and feel liked and validated by our peers.
By Leon Macfayden4 years ago in Psyche
CHASING THE NIGHT
Go silent into that long night. Never has a quote been more profound. A pit, as black as pitch had opened up within me, a maelstrom of salted night. Pulling me in - little old me - into the abyss once again. My hands, slippery spades of tar, my resolve an ancient premise, smothered by years of blemishes, eager to open once more. Spill, spill vitriolic remnants of recent woe and klaxon calls to old demons.
By Dom Watson 4 years ago in Psyche
Learning How to Let Go: A Technique for a More Fulfilling Life
Since I can remember, I have always been a sentimental girl. Holding tightly to any possessions which reminded me of childhood memories, holding tightly to people I have met in my teens, even though I no longer felt any meaningful connection other than shared memories. The nostalgia seemed to follow me wherever I went. I hardly felt settled. By longing for the past, I have been missing out on the present.
By Katarzyna Portka4 years ago in Psyche
8 Things you need to know if your partner was a victim of child abuse
Child abuse is sadly quite common and there are different types; sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and neglect. It can be really hard to love someone with any of these types of abuse in their past.
By No One’s Daughter4 years ago in Psyche
Stop Telling Yourself You Don’t Know
Do you ever find that you struggle to make decisions? You agonise about every tiny detail of the decision, you panic and have sleepless nights, terrified that you may make the wrong decision. You end up just accepting defeat, deciding you don’t know, and you are just too confused, and then end up making no decision (which is actually a decision in itself), or leaving things so long the decision is taken out of your hands.
By Shelly Freeman4 years ago in Psyche
