Feeling sad? Learn how to overcome sadness
How to overcome sadness. “I can’t do this anymore. I’m sick of this situation”. “I’m sad, I can’t stand my life, I don’t want […]
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12 Anxiety Symptoms: Fear sharpens the senses while anxiety paralyzes them
Anxiety Symptoms. “I’m worried all day excessively about anything that happens to me”, “I feel agitated and nervous and at night I have a […]
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Philophobia: A Fear of Love
Most people in the world long for someone to share their lives with and shower them with love and affection. However, there are some […]
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Thanatophobia: The One Fear Everyone Has
There is really only one certain thing about life, and that is that it ends. However, constantly keeping this thought in mind can stop […]
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Adverse Childhood Experiences: What They Are and What To Do
Take the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire: Add up your Yes answers. This is your ACE score. Remember, plenty of people with high ACE scores do […]
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Are You at Risk for Seasonal Affective Disorder? Know its Symptoms and What it’s All About
What is seasonal affective disorder, or SAD? Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression characterized by differences in outdoor seasonal activity. Most people […]
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Drug Withdrawal; Symptoms and Treatments
Drug Withdrawal Definition: group of symptoms that occur as a result of a decrease or stopping intake of a medication, recreational drugs or substances, […]
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Scientifically Proven Healthy Habits- Get Back On Track!
Scientifically proven healthy habits: Stress, anxiety, and general unhappiness are all caused by an imbalance in our lives. In other words, a balanced life […]
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Brain plasticity; Rewiring the brain
Once upon a time, researchers and scientist theorised that the brain stops developing within the first few years of life. The connections the brain […]
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Dysthymia: Persistent Depressive Disorder- What is it and Symptoms
We’ve all been “there”, where we find ourselves more down than usual, we don’t feel like doing anything and have a constant feeling of […]
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Making sense of the exercise obstacle course; different types of exercise and their benefits
Cue the groans! This blog post is all about the benefits of different types of exercise. Yes! You read that correctly! Although half way […]
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The different types of neurotransmitters: What are they?
You’ve probably heard of how dopamine plays a role in feelings of pleasure, or how serotonin levels influence depression. This barely scratches the surface […]
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Brain Gym: 16 Activities That Will Help Your Brain Stay Younger, Longer
Brain gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance of training our brains. Today we know […]
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Understanding Your Brain and Stress: What Happens When We’re Stressed?
It’s time to talk about our good ol’ buddy stress. For most of us, it seems to cling to us all day every day, […]
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How Eating Disorders Change Your Brain
Ever since we were young, we have been bombarded with images, words, and other sorts of media that all send us the same subliminal […]
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Bullying and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Bullying
As a young, school-going kid there are a lot of things that are rights of passage- your first invite to a birthday party, your […]
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Trying the Unconventional: Alternative Mental Health Therapy
Since psychiatry became a significant field in modern day medicine, millions of people have gotten treatment for mental disorders. The most prevalent psychiatric treatments […]
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Are Antidepressants for You?
If you have been diagnosed with depression, you have probably asked yourself: are antidepressants for you? Your doctor can give you the medical facts, the […]
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Tips to Help Yourself Out of Depression: Keeping Bad Moods at Bay
Over the last decade, depression rates have spiraled so much so that approximately 1 in 4 Americans will experience Major Depression at least once […]
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Does Stress Get You Down? Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks
How can you work on overcoming anxiety and panic attacks? Getting stressed out before a final paper is due, or before giving an important […]
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How To Live With a Schizophrenic: Make Your Life Easier
Living with someone who has schizophrenia might be hard sometimes. Even though you can’t see it, these people need you. In this article, we’ll […]
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Sexual Assault Affects the Female Brain
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), abuse against women, both emotional and physical, creates a huge public health problem that negatively affects a […]
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Is Your Child Sad? How To Prevent Depression in Children
Learning how to prevent depression may be helpful for keeping your children from suffering and helping be more emotionally balanced in the future.We usually […]
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Physiological Effects Of Depression
Depression is a serious mental condition that many people suffer from. A lot of people cannot seem to grasp the extent to which depression […]
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My Kid Is Sad: Symptoms Of Childhood Depression
Depression is a common diagnosis in today’s society. People feel down all the time, due to every day stressors, due to anxiety, due to […]
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How To Overcome Depression After The Loss Of A Loved One
In some cases, depression can be the result of traumatic events, like losing a loved one. These experiences may cause irrational fear, recurring negative […]
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Never Ending Worry: Living With Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Feeling nervous and worried is a natural and quite common response to a frightening stimulus. Anxiety is natural even if it brings us discomfort. […]
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Does Socializing Stress You Out? How To Overcome Social Anxiety
Let’s set the scene: It’s peak lunch time and you’re in a hurry before your next class. You usually eat with a few friends, […]
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How to help a loved one live with Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological deterioration that affects motor skills, but this illness doesn’t stop there. It also causes huge emotional changes that loved […]
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Are You Controlled By Your Nerves? How To Overcome Acute Stress
We face stressful situations in our day-to-day that cause behavioral and emotional problems. These problems caused by stress usually go away on their own, […]
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How to Overcome Depression During Pregnancy: Why do I Feel Guilty?
We recently talked about postpartum depression, and now we’re going to look at how to overcome depression during pregnancy. Being pregnant and bringing a […]
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Using Positive Thoughts Against Depression
The ability to overcome depression might be in our own brain. A scientific study carried out by the Brain Sciences Institute and MIT investigated […]
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How to overcome depression: 18 tips to help you out
Depression isn’t just a passing state that goes away in a few days, it’s a debilitating mental disorder that affects daily life. If you feel […]
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How to Talk to Someone With Depression: 13 Ideas For What to Say
How do you talk to someone with depression? If you have never had depression or something similar, you probably won’t understand how it feels. […]
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Postpartum Depression: When Becoming A Mother Changes You
Postpartum depression is a type of depression that mothers suffer from after giving birth, and can vary from moderate to intense depression. It may […]
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What is Depression and How Does It Affect Us?
Everyone has felt sad before, but if it’s something that lasts for more then a few weeks you may be suffering from clinical depression. What […]
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What is Stress: Types and Symptoms of Stress
What is Stress If you think you may have stress, keep in mind that it’s just a normal response from the organism that subconsciously responds […]
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24 year-old wins space competition, dedicates trip to people with mental illness
24-year-old man who won a competition to go to space dedicates his trip to people with mental illness http://ow.ly/VeHmI Hussain Manawer, London native, recently […]
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Using mindfulness to soothe physician stress
Using mindfulness to soothe physician stress. Nearly half of doctors report experiencing at least one symptom of burnout, according to a nationwide survey of […]
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High-fat food linked with brain chemical changes, withdrawal symptoms
High-fat food linked with brain chemical changes, withdrawal symptoms. Eating junk food can actually change the brain, spurring symptoms of anxiety and depression if […]
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Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit
Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit. A specific pattern of neuronal firing in a brain reward circuit instantly rendered mice vulnerable […]
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‘Second screening’ may lead to depression
‘Second screening’ may lead to depression. Do you surf on your tablet or text on your phone while watching TV? If so, how’s your […]
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How depression and stress trigger loss of brain volume
How depression, stress trigger loss of brain volume. People who suffer from chronic stress or major depression tend to lose brain volume, and such […]
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