Back to School
It is that time of the year! Stores are ready with “back-to-school” sales on all the products to prepare you for the new school year. However, what does your mental health tool kit look like with...
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Do You Use Social Media Less When Your Skin Breaks Out?
Do you ever get nervous about posting photos of yourself on social media when you’re in the middle of a breakout? According to a recent survey of more than 1,000 adolescents, more than half...
Is Depression in My Genes?
Where does depression come from? Like we talked about before, there are many theories (ideas for why something happens that scientists put together from facts and based on how the world seems to work). There is some...
Why Not Ask For Help?
Have you ever wanted to talk to a therapist or psychologist about difficult feelings, but hesitated? If you’ve ever felt this way, you are not alone. The reasons for this hesitation are often rooted in people’s backgrounds, and...
Happiness Set Point
There is an idea in psychology that we all have something called a happiness set point. A happiness set point is a term used to describe our general level of happiness, and it is...
How Our Genes Are Not Set In Stone
One of the most interesting areas of mental health research is “epigenetics”—the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than changing the genetic code itself. In plain language, that means that...
I think I can — I think I can — I think I can
Photo credit: SortOfNatural via: Flickr Positive self-talk can be an effective tool in boosting your mood. You can also reduce stress by eliminating negative self-talk. Learn more about the power of positive self-talk and stress management. Start...
How Some Online Stresses Can Actually Help You
“Stress” has become such a loaded word in our society! The internet is full of articles about reducing or even “getting rid of stress“—as if stress were like a disease that has to be eradicated. But did...
100 Happy Days
Have you heard of 100 happy days? The idea is to take a picture every day of something that makes you happy. What’s the point? When you try to find something each day that...
Tips For Improving Your Journaling Practice
In a previous blog, one of our adolescent blogging ambassadors talked about some benefits of journaling. The practice of journaling regularly has physical benefits—for example, it really helps strengthen the immune system! Emotionally, it helps us organize our thoughts,...
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