Transforming Anger: How to Regulate and Channel Your Energy into Positive Actions
Anger is a natural and powerful emotion that everyone experiences. While it often has a negative reputation, anger isn’t inherently...
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MIND
SOMETIMES I AM QUIET
THAT'S WHEN THERE'S A MILLION AND ONE THINGS GOING THROUGH MY MIND
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September: Suicide Prevention – Raising Awareness and Recognizing the Warning Signs
September is Suicide Prevention Month, a crucial time to raise awareness about the growing issue of suicide and the importance of...
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Recognizing Signs of Stress in Children and Adolescents
Stress isn’t just an adult problem. Children and adolescents are also susceptible to stress, and while they may not always express it in...
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The Role of Dopamine: How It Affects Focus and Concentration in the Brain
Dopamine is a powerful neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role in many functions of the brain, including mood regulation, motivation,...
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Brain Illnesses Found in Men & How to identify them
June is not just another month—it's Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to shed light on the unique challenges men face in...
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Breaking the Silence: Understanding Why Men Are Less Likely to Seek Help for Mental Health Issues
In a society that often glorifies stoicism and self-reliance, men face unique challenges when it comes to seeking help for mental health...
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Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite its prevalence, OCD...
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What is Anxiety? Identify it, calm it and restore from it.
Anxiety is a common and normal human emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. Nowadays, people use that word very common, but...
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Taming the Inner Bully: How to Overcome Anxiety and Boost Your Confidence
Do you ever feel like there's a mean voice inside your head that just won't quit? It's like having a personal bully, constantly...
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Understanding Brain Fog: Causes and Solutions
Brain fog is a common experience characterized by mental fuzziness, difficulty concentrating, and a feeling of cognitive cloudiness. You...
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Understanding the Brain's Role in Stress Response and Its Impact on the Body
Stress is a natural response to perceived threats or challenges, triggering a complex cascade of physiological and psychological...
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Embracing Self-Love: A Journey Towards Inner Peace and Brain Health
In our fast-paced world, where challenges and expectations are constant, the concept of self-love is crucial for maintaining brain...
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Rebuilding the Soul: Overcoming Emotional Trauma and Distress
Emotional trauma can strike anyone, at any time, leaving deep scars on the soul. and after the worldwide pandemic, in 2020, which has...
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The Transformative Power of Positive Thinking on the Brain
Have you ever wondered how the simple act of maintaining a positive outlook can transform your brain? While the idea that "positive...
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Embracing the Spectrum: Expressing Emotions in Healthy Ways
Emotions are a fundamental part of the human experience, and they come in a vast array of colors, from joy and excitement to anger and...
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COVID-19 and Mental health
During this global pandemic, there has clearly been a shift in our normal every day life. For those suffering from a mental illness or...
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Selective mutism: Is your child doing this?
Are some kids really shy and not wanting to talk and you just don't know what's going on with them? There could be a social fear or...
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My first Grand rounds presentation: Schizophrenia
I know I am always talking about how I am always learning something new every day...well today isn't any different. I was asked to do a...
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Restless legs syndrome
Do you ever get this urge from within to move your legs and I don't mean dancing...you might be suffering from restless legs syndrome. ...
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Suicide: self murder
Is it me or do we keep hearing about more and more people committing suicide? I can't stop to think about the families and friends who...
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NEW STUDY: Cannabis can lead to psychosis specially in teens!
So this doesn't come to much surprise, to know that marihuana use leads to psychosis. For a while studies were leading to this and was...
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How to wake up, when you just can’t.
Ever since I finished taking my board last exam, getting about 5-6 hours of sleep every night. I had a very difficult time waking up in...
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Mariah is bipolar? wait, what's that?
Hey guys...I’m sure you have seen a lot of mental health talk on social media and just the press in general. Which is great! Because this...
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Type 1 Diabetes and Depression
Did you know that there are two types of diabetes? Most people think that diabetes is something their grandma has because she would eat...
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The narcissist has a new mirror
How many "Public figure" profiles have you come across instagram lately? What is this inner most desire for some to be famous? I want to...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder: How to fight against it this winter
I know its that time of the year again (and no, I am not late with this post winter can go for a very long time specially up north) when...
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Anxiety: How to battle it
Ever been anxious before? Or at least, just really nervous about something? From experience I have had to learn to never be anxious for...
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Art-fix: Get your right-brain going
Quick little Art-fix...what's an art-fix you ask? Well its pretty much a quick little art project that can get your mind to use that...
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Staycation: always a good idea
Listen, you have to get away. I want to tell you about the importance of getting away for a weekend. Or two. It all started with me...
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Sleep hygiene?
Well, it goes to show that we spend most of our lives sleeping. The problem is that not all of us are getting the good restful sleep we...
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Keep the doctor near...not away
Start the year right! Go get a nice little check up with your doc! Also make sure you tell him or her what you did (wink wink) over the...
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WITH ALL THE VOICES IN SOCIAL MEDIA, WE CAN BE EASILY DISTRACTED BY THE NOISE, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ADD TO YOUR MIND
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