Tag: #anxiety
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How To Be There For Someone Who Is Having A Mental Health Crisis
Link: here One of the challenging things about a mental health crisis is that often, even the people that care about you aren’t quite sure how to be there for you. After getting diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I lost a lot of friends during a time when I most needed support from them. In some…
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More ArticlesThe Negativity Bias: Why the Bad Stuff SticksWhat is the negativity bias? How can you overcome it?Article by:Margaret Jaworski
The article:https://www.psycom.net/negativity-bias How can you overcome the negativity bias? But there is good news. Despite the evolutionary hand we’ve been dealt, the degree to which we’re able to override our “default” setting and avoid falling into an abyss of self-recrimination, insecurity, sadness, anger, bitterness and other negative emotions depends on a slew of factors including…
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Alexithymia: The Emotion-Processing Dysfunction That Makes It Hard to Identify Emotions
The article:https://themighty.com/2019/10/alexithymia-cant-identify-emotions/?utm_source=newsletter_mental_health&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_mental_health_2019-11-09&$deep_link=true At some point in our lives, most of us have answered the question, “How are you?” with an honest, “I don’t know.” It’s natural to struggle with knowing how we really feel from time to time. Sometimes life is going so fast that we don’t have a moment to slow down and check in with…
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Manage your anxiety
https://themighty.com/2019/08/need-help-anxiety/?utm_source=engagement_bar&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=story_page.engagement_bar/ Here’s what people shared with us: 1. ‘Today is just another day.’ “‘Today is just another day. Nothing more, nothing less. You can get through it because it’s just another day.’ It’s not supportive necessarily, but it’s my mantra every day and it works!” — Emily H. 2. ‘Take it day by day.’ “‘Take…