Category: Educate Yourself
True Friendship
As we live our lives, people come in and out of our social interactions. Particularly in young adulthood, in settings such as school or extracurricular activities, we constantly meet people and create relationships. However, sometimes...
New medication?!?!
Starting a new medication? Congratulations! This is a brilliant step in your journey of helping yourself to find health. There are some very important things that you can do to make the most of...
Antidepressant Warnings
Its important to understand the risks of taking any medication. But its also important to understand where those risks came from. For antidepressants, there is a black box warning on antidepressants for children and...
Is it serious?
It can sometimes be tough to figure out how serious a mental health problem is – especially in the beginning for a teenager. If you try to think about physical health problems, sometimes there...
Writing about mental health
I started my first diary when I was 12 years old and I haven’t stopped writing since. My diaries from middle school focus a lot on my friends, my crushes, shaky attempts at poetry,...
Can you trust yourself?
Have you ever felt like you can psycho-analyze other people really well? You know, like you can just pinpoint what their issue is. By seeing their behavior on the outside, you feel like you...
Reducing Stress with Easy Yoga
Anxiety is a huge mental stessor. When we feel anxious, our body’s “fight or flight” response kicks in. Fight or flight prepares us to struggle or escape. This response starts in your brain and branches into...
How to communicate more effectively
You may think that the message you’re trying to get across to your friends and family through verbal words are understood perfectly, but this is almost always not the case. A lot of the...
Why talking to friends/family is different from talking to a therapist
You’re comfortable with your friends, they know your history, and you trust and care about each other, so why go to a therapist? What can a therapist do that a friend can’t? First, a...
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