Mental Health and Behavior. Access valuable resources on coping with mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and stress management techniques.
We have all been stressed at one point in our life. It is a feeling we get of emotional or physical tension making us feel frustrated, angry, scared, or nervous. One of the most common ways we feel stressed is during our fight-flight response which is a common response in our body when facing adversity or an ultimatum.…
Let’s be blunt here, pain sucks, either chronic or acute. It can be physically and emotionally difficult to do everyday activities. People will experience several challenges and feel it is not worth living anymore. If we all lived pain-free and disease-free we could probably live up to the age 90.…
Reflective practice is the capability to reflect on activities to engage in the process of constant learning, as defined by Donald Schön. The reflective practice pays critical attention to the practical values by examining practice reflectively and reflexively. It converts insights into practical strategies and subsequently makes personal, professional and institutional impacts.…
At the end of every year, we start to think about goals or resolutions for the next year. One popular resolution nowadays is self care. Self care is an all-encompassing term that includes physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of one’s life.…
Reflective thinking is the process of examining and reviewing events and actions. Much like reflective thinking, introspection has a lot to do with analyzing your reactions and assessing the reasoning behind these thoughts and actions. When commuting home, or before going to sleep, you might find yourself replaying the events of the day.…
It takes a tremendous amount of work each and every day to set and achieve our health goals. When setting goals for our health, it is important that we are first honest with ourselves with regards to our strengths, weaknesses and preferences.…
Have you ever felt thankful for something? That feeling is gratitude. Being grateful has a lot of focus in the field of positive psychology. Expressing gratitude is not necessarily reserved for specific moments or occasions like achieving something at school or work.…
Before managing adult ADHD, you need to understand what ADHD is. ADHD stands for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. ADHD is a mental health disorder and a neurological condition that affects brain functioning, resulting in people with this condition having persistent problems including difficulty paying attention, being hyperactive and/or engaging in impulsive behavior, which are not appropriate for that person’s age.…
When we think of disease, we usually think of those that have affects on us that we can see. But we rarely think about those diseases that impact our minds. Mental illnesses are diseases, however what defines them can be blurry.…
There comes a point in our lives where we hope to change a particular pattern or behavior about ourselves so that we become more productive, successful, or healthy. We can do this by recognizing our current behaviors or habits that are less ideal, by replacing them with ones that are better suited to our overall health.…