Emotional First-Aid
Why is it important to heal your emotions? During his practice, Guy Winch, a licensed psychologist and author, noticed how most cultures value the body over the mind. He points out that we experience more...
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The Real Questions and Answers about Therapy
For this blog post, I interviewed a therapist to ask questions about how and why therapy could help people with depression and anxiety. His name is Gary Sadler, a Transition Care Coordinator at Children’s...
The United Way 2-1-1 Helpline
Have you ever needed help and not known where to turn to? Are you unaware of resources in your local area? A lot of people need resources but don’t know where or how to...
Healthy Peer Relationships
Relationships with peers are an important part of life. There are many different kinds of relationships young people can have with their peers –including friendships, dating relationships. But as with all human relationships, issues...
The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016
The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 is a bill recently created by United States Senate that makes great strides to strengthen the mental health system. The bill has not yet been voted on...
How to Block on Social Media
When people are spreading negativity online, sometimes the only solution is to block them. By blocking people, on most sites you will no longer be able to see their content and they won’t be...
Taking a Break from Social Media
Sometimes it can feel like you live on your phone/tablet/computer. Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, on and on! Everyone wants your attention! You give likes, you get likes, your phone buzzes, little red...
Side effects of antidepressants
Although antidepressants are one of the ways to help adolescents with depression or anxiety feel better mentally and socially, there are also some other physical attributes to them that may tag along, too. With antidepressants,...
Confidentiality during Mental Health Treatment
A big worry about talking to a therapist is: your privacy. Will the therapist tell anyone else all of my business? The short answer is no, unless you or someone else is in danger....
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...
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