-
Finding a Suitable Work-Life Balance to Encourage More Sleep
Improving or finding a manageable work-life balance can help you sleep better. In return, catching up on more sleep can impact your ability to function effectively at work or affect your presence at home. However,…
-
Navigating Mood Disorders When Struggling With the Winter Blues
There are numerous mood disorders, but the most common include depression, bipolar disorder, and dysthymia. These disorders often include symptoms such as persistent feelings of sadness, losing interest in parts of life that are important…
-
Can Using Social Media Trigger PTSD?
While social media can be a positive outlet for people to connect or seek support, millions of headlines fill the space that may spark trauma for readers. Images and words are shared in an attempt…
-
Healthy Habits to Help Teens During Winter Break
The transition to in-person school in August was likely a challenge for many teens, and with holiday break right around the corner, your teen may slip back into old habits and struggle to return in…
-
Ways to Overcome Intrusive Thoughts
Obsessive, intrusive thoughts are unwanted images, urges, or impulses that come out of nowhere and can make you feel scared, humiliated, or disgusted. These distressing thoughts are most commonly associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but…
-
Facing the Fear of Admitting You Need Help
It may be common for you to worry about the minor things in your day-to-day life, putting your mental health on the backburner. As a result, you may have developed the damaging habit of avoiding…
-
How to Support Your Friends Who Struggle With Mental Illness
There is a saying, “If the suffering is hard, then seeing your loved ones suffer is harder.” Sometimes, you may see your friends or family suffer, and you want to help them. However, you may…
-
How Burnout Culture Might Be Affecting Your Mental Health
Burnout culture has run rampant amidst COVID-19, but it existed long before the virus changed your life. Burnout culture gives “work hard, play hard” another meaning: you can only enjoy activities and rest once you…
-
Seasonal Affective Disorder Signs and Symptoms
We all experience “seasons of life” when we’re doing well and life seems great. Other times we may be struggling and can’t seem to get back on our feet. For some people, this turn of…