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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.

Five Ways to Positive
Negativity can seep its way into everyday life without warning. Traffic is moving too slow; the Internet went down; an itch that you've been scratching at is still bothering you days later; but, whatever may be happening it's important to remember that there's always ways to stay positive.
By Alex Prange5 years ago in Psyche
Stop Romanticizing Mental Health and Start Helping People with Real Mental Illnesses
Everyday that I get on Facebook, I see a new post from some person saying something like, “Oh, I’m so ADHD because I’m so random, or “I’m so bipolar because of such and such”. There are other posts about things related to other mental illnesses, but these two seem to be the most common. When did it become popular to want to have a mental illness? I, for one, never once signed up for this.
By rachel west5 years ago in Psyche
Making The Mental Health Checklist
Everyone's mental health is different, it's imperative to take care of it, but it's harder to remember it's OK to take care of ourselves.
By Samantha Parrish5 years ago in Psyche
How To Stop Taking Offense and Start Living: watch out, the article changes consciousness
You can't offend anyone. They may only take offense to you How quickly do we break into curses when a hurrying driver splatters us with a lot of mud from the nearest puddle?
By Yana Dvoretskaya5 years ago in Psyche
Mindfulness is the Opposite of Self-Improvement
For those of us struggling with stress, anxiety, or depression, things tend to feel harder than they need to be. These struggles are so intense and so personal that we rarely show them to the outside world. Unfortunately, when everyone is hiding their struggles, it makes it feel like you're the only one dealing with them. This, in turn, produces plenty of doubt and insecurity: Could I be the only one?
By Reider5 years ago in Psyche
Stop Normalizing Gaslighting. Top Story - January 2021.
It’s good to mold your beliefs into something better, taking advice from an experienced person about anything helps you change your thought process, and you should take plenty of advice from people. Parents help their kids understand things that the kids misunderstand, which involves healthy advisory sessions and seldom involves scolding if their kids don’t obey. This process of molding the wrong belief into something better involves reinforcement and punishment psychology.
By Saral Verma5 years ago in Psyche
How Much Self-Help do We Really Need?
The world is full of self-help. From books, websites, articles, and everything in between, there is no shortage of information on how to help yourself do everything from being better organized to living a better life.
By Eric Allen5 years ago in Psyche
Change Your View: Become Someone New
Sally, a young woman just fresh out of high school, was coming to learn the difficulties of adulthood. Every day, she faced a new obstacle. It seemed as though every time she overcame one obstacle, another stood in her way. Frustrated, she began complaining to her friends and family about her struggles.
By Adrienne Huggins5 years ago in Psyche
Hardships and Triumphs
Life has taught me that there are no fair deals. You can slog through life, fighting for every inch, or lay down and let life dictate your future. My life starts in the Kansas town of Newton, where I was born. A year after my birth, my younger brother is born. Life’s first bad deal is swiftly dealt to us. Our parents are not only drug addicts, but abusive as well. We were physically and emotionally abused, with suspected sexual assault at one point. Finally, CPS stepped in and removed us from their custody.
By Kraths5 years ago in Psyche
"Dear 2021, Please Be the Year of Mental Health and Self-Education" - a Letter to Myself
Dear New Year, First of all, thank you for rolling over. You have no idea how much I've been waiting for 2020 to end.
By Joanna Henderson5 years ago in Psyche
COVID-19 Job Loss and Addiction
By Geoffrey Booth, M.D., Medical Director, LifeSync Malibu Nothing sparks anxiety like losing your job. Unfortunately, in the era of the pandemic, job losses have continued to mount nationwide. The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has only amplified all the other stressors we are enduring this year. Government assistance has been slow and inadequate, leaving many in dire financial straits.
By Geoffrey Booth5 years ago in Psyche
Mental Health Tips
Some things that people don’t quite understand about mental health, is that it isn’t just black and white. There isn’t just two sides.
By Caspian5 years ago in Psyche