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Our experience in life, even in the womb, is one of sensation. All our physical sense channels, collectively referred to as 'the sensorium,' make up the body of our experience, which is then represented with language. In other words, we can share our experiences because of representational...

Stress has become an inevitable part of everyone's life these days. With hectic work schedule and daunting deadlines to meet, most people have got accustomed to living pressured lives. In such a fast-paced world, it is not easy for a person to have control over the rapidly changing...

Mental health problems, like depression and anxiety are experienced by more people worldwide than any other physical disorder. According to predictions from the World Health Organization, by 2020 depression will cause greater disability than any other mental or physical disorder. This is a...

I saw someone said this in a youtube video if you suffer from mental health problems and tell a cop that you suffer from any of the mental health problems, they (the cops) use it to get that person locked up in a hospital? he is anti-cop so i dont know if he's just saying it or if genuinely...

Mental illnesses have long been a major cause of death and disability. From 30 to 60 per cent of all patients who consult doctors do so primarily for complaints due to emotional disorders. Many productive persons continuously maintain a chronically neurotic adjustment to life. And most...

You have to find out the meaning of life because you need this important information in order to understand what you must look for when you think, in order to solve your problems, and in order to make the right decisions. If you don't know the meaning of life you don't know what to desire, or...

By Tim Dreby Back when I was just a yuppie, I learned a few points of wisdom about working through stigma. I needed mentors to help teach me how wrong stigma is. Now, I want to pay forward some of what I learned outside the class room to some mental health academics and administrators who may...

Life is full of unexpected surprises. You never know what the next moment might bring and can even turn a happy-go-lucky person into a total recluse. It often happens that a tragic incidence turns an individual's world upside down and thus affects his/her physical and mental heath. While it is...

Most of the psychological triggers are caused by external events, circumstances and stimulus, such as sight, sound and smell. Some of these triggers can invoke the feeling of distress and flashbacks of traumatic events. Though most of the triggers are innocuous in nature, some of them can turn...

By Tim Dreby This story is for the mental health providers or peer counselors who are invested in developing treatment for people who have experienced "psychosis" across diagnostic categories. I know firsthand that this can be achieved. I want to help other interested parties develop their own...

Mental health problems can strike people irrespective of their age, gender, or economic or social status. Although genes and family history may increase the risk, environmental influences, circumstances and traumatic past memories can also trigger the onset of a mental disorder like depression...

Suffering from depression or any other emotional issue? If yes then nothing will be much more healing than consulting a therapist in your locality. Now the big question remains that how to find out the best one who can easily understand and related to the problems of the sufferer. Read this post...

Waking up early, meditating, exercising and replenishing one's platter with an assortment of healthy tidbits can do wonders for a person's physical health. However, in this fast-paced, technology-driven age, it is not enough to just take care of one's physical health to achieve overall...

By Michael DeMarco As a therapist in private practice, I'm asked constantly how long therapy is going to take, and how often a client will have to come to sessions. People still see a trope about therapy on tv showing stereotypical psychoanalysis where people are expected to come several times...

Mental Health Mental fitness is a scale of psychological relief or a lack of mental illness. It is the "psychological situation of anyone who is functioning at a fitting degree of emotional and social adjustment. From the outlook of constructive psychology, intellectual health might also...

O.C.D., also known as obsessive compulsive behavior, is a mental health disorder. There are many ways in which this mental health disorder displays itself. For examples, a person with O.C.D. would be "hyper" about cleanliness; constantly cleaning and straightening up things in and around the...

By Amanda Robins I think perfectionism is a disease, creeping up on us and spreading into all areas of our lives, colouring and tainting our existence with its demands and judgements. Our professional lives of course, but also our hobbies, our friendships, our intimate relationships and our...

Most people are very well-aware of the power of suggestion. There is scientific proof that we have the potential to use our minds to heal us of illness. What was once considered pseudoscience is no longer. An example of this is the placebo effect. As stated in an article from Harvard Men's...

How much do we know about relaxation techniques? A substantial amount of research has been done on relaxation techniques. However, for many health conditions, the number or size of the studies has been small, and some studies have been of poor quality. What do we know about their...

We're living in difficult times socially, politically, economically, and spiritually. I speak with many people and what I hear in one form or another is they feel like they are being dive bombed by stimuli thrown at us, mailed to us, yelled at us, and preached to us. I can't believe the rate of...