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From Screens to Sleepless Nights: Why Social Media Impacts Your Sleep
Do you scroll through social media before bed? Many of us do. It feels harmless to check Instagram or TikTok while winding down.
How to Cope with Holiday Season Depression: Tips for Emotional Well-Being
Despite media portrayals, the holiday season brings feelings of sadness, loneliness, and longing for many people. Financial stress, family tensions, grief over lost loved ones, and the pressure to feel happy can all contribute to holiday depression.
Coping with Loss Without Turning to Substances: Understanding Grief and Addiction
Grief is one of life's most painful experiences. When we lose someone we love, the weight of that loss can feel unbearable.
Are You in a Codependent Relationship with a Narcissist? Signs and Solutions
Relationships should feel balanced, with both partners giving and receiving love, respect, and support. But when one person consistently prioritizes another's needs while ignoring their own, codependency develops.
After the Diagnosis: A Guide to Living Well with Bipolar Disorder
Receiving a bipolar disorder diagnosis can feel overwhelming. You might experience a mix of emotions. e.g., relief at finally having an explanation for your struggles, fear about what this means for your future, or uncertainty about how to move forward.
From Approval to Authenticity: Recognizing and Releasing People-Pleasing Habits
Do you find yourself saying yes when you really want to say no? Maybe you're constantly worried about disappointing others or spend hours replaying conversations, wondering if someone's upset with you.
How Isolation Affects Mental Health
Our brains are designed to seek out social connections for survival. When we're isolated, our minds interpret this as a threat, triggering stress responses that can become chronic over time.
How to Save Your Marriage After Financial Infidelity
Financial dishonesty cuts deep because money represents more than dollars and cents in a relationship. It symbolizes security, trust, shared goals, and respect for your partner's feelings.
How to Recognize the Signs of Codependency
Thanks to pop culture, we’ve all learned some counterproductive lessons about relationships. Success, we’re led to believe, consists of finishing each other’s sentences and “completing” someone else.
Processing the Grief of Chronic Illness
When contemplating the concept of grief, it is almost universally applied to situations involving the death of a loved one. While this is a common cause for mourning, it’s only one of the many reasons for bereavement.
Why Immigrants Are Experiencing Record Numbers of Depression
Even the most casual look at human history will reveal far too many instances of oppression, conflict, and more. Up until very recently, most of these harmful events were not experienced in real-time.
The Mental Health Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policies
Over the past decade or so, it’s become increasingly challenging to have productive conversations about any topic that falls under the rubric of “politics.” A prime example of this is anything that can be labeled as “immigration.” The societal schisms and the direct effect on real-life humans are enough to challenge anyone’s mental well-being.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Health anxiety has been around for a long, long time. It’s been called hypochondria or hypochondriasis. The official name is illness anxiety disorder. By any name, the concept of experiencing relentless worry about one’s state of health is far from new. That said, it sure kicked into high gear about five years ago.
How to Survive the Empty Nest
When a couple struggles through the experience of their children moving out, it’s not a specific diagnosis. What they’re enduring involves a dizzying array of emotions that stir up old triggers while creating new ones.
How Does Social Media Affect Sleep?
The rise of social media reads like a work of fiction. In 2012, it was something that only 5 percent of adults participated in. Fast forward to today, and that number is at least 73 percent.
How Grief Rewrites the Brain
Your brain responds to loss in some ways, just as it would to any serious threat. That loss can involve things such as relationships, jobs, geographical locations, finances, and so on.
Understanding the 4 Trauma Responses
At first glance, some readers may assume this post is not for them. However, since at least 7 out of 10 adults have endured a traumatic event, this topic is seriously needed.
Gaslighting in Relationships: How to Spot It and How to Deal With It
It seems like everyone is talking about gaslighting these days. However, if you aren’t careful with the information you’re getting, you can ironically be gaslighted about gaslighting.
The Psychological Impact of Political Attacks Against Immigrants
For most of human existence, we were mostly unaware of what was happening just a few towns over — never mind on another continent. So, while the digital age has brought some interesting developments, it’s also set us up to be bombarded with information.
How Social Media Can Contribute to Insomnia
It’s hardly breaking news that social media is ubiquitous. At least three-quarters of people use social media, and the results are mixed.