Tag: #depression
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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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30 Years of Managing Bipolar DisorderBy George Hofmann
A person learns a lot managing a mental illness over a lifetime. I recently heard from a reader who’s been doing it for decades… The Article: https://blogs.psychcentral.com/older-bipolar/2020/04/30-years-of-managing-bipolar-disorder/ http://ow.ly/uJUY50zapJx The woman, Althea, said that she has been dealing with bipolar disorder for 30 years. That’s about how long I’ve had a diagnosis, so I asked her…
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What are the types of depression?When to see a doctor??? V
Medically reviewed by Timothy J. Legg, Ph.D., CRNP on January 7, 2020 — Written by Jayne Leonard article :https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327429.php Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States. There are several different types of depression. People with depression experience distinct periods — lasting at least 2 weeks — of sadness,…
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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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What is depression thoughts
source:https://themighty.com/2019/08/depression-thoughts-morning/?utm_source=engagement_bar&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=story_page.engagement_bar/ Here are the “depression thoughts” our community shared with us: 1. ‘I can’t wait to go to bed.’ “‘I can’t wait to come home and crawl into bed.’ I haven’t even gotten out of bed when I think that, but it’s always one of my first thoughts of the day.” — Melissa M. “‘Awake…