Tag Archives: Mental Illness

What Is it Like to Live With Borderline Personality Disorder?

Borderline personality disorder is a personality disorder that affects how you think and feel about yourself and others. Those with this disorder often have an intense fear of abandonment, struggle to keep healthy relationships, have intense emotions, act impulsively, and may experience paranoia and dissociation. Helping those with borderline personality disorder live past the stigma […]

How to Be Proactive in Maintaining Your Mental Health

Mental health is a complex part of you that must be nurtured every day to ensure you are healthy. It can be easy to ignore mental health when life’s other responsibilities continue building up. However, you cannot expect to maintain your priorities and keep stress at bay if you do not play an active role […]

How Does Avolition Play a Role in Schizophrenia?

If you are having trouble completing daily tasks or even getting out of bed, you may be suffering from avolition. Avolition is when you lack the motivation for tasks with an end goal. This behavior is typical in mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. By understanding how avolition plays a role […]

Why Should You Stay on Your Medication?

When you are battling a mental illness, you may need medication to ease your symptoms and prevent them from interfering with your life. Just as you have to take medication for chronic physical conditions, many people have to take medication for mental health disorders. Unfortunately, some people often think that when they start feeling better, […]

How Can Technology Help With Mental Health Disorders?

Mental health issues affect hundreds of millions of people around the world, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. Even if you have received plenty of help with treatment, you may want some additional support when you come home that is accessible to you. Luckily, technological innovations are available to connect with a therapist, track moods, manage symptoms, […]

How to Identify Schizophrenia Symptoms in Yourself

While many people know the general symptoms of schizophrenia, noticing them in yourself can be challenging. It is crucial to remember that schizophrenia does not occur overnight but rather has symptoms that develop over months or years. You may be in denial regarding your symptoms, but recognizing them as fact can aid in getting you […]

What Are the Genetic Links to Bipolar Disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder that leads to extreme mood swings, shifting between mania, hypomania, and depression, depending on the type of bipolar. Some might describe it as the highs are too high and the lows are too low. Now scientists are claiming they have discovered a significant factor in determining your risk […]

What to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up

Have you reached a point where you think nothing else matters? Perhaps you believe that nothing you say or do will change anything, and it would be better if you just gave up. Many individuals feel this from time to time as they cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, it […]

Can Saying “You Need Help” Hurt Someone With Mental Illness?

If a friend told you “you need help,” how do you think you would react? Would you be touched someone cared — or would you be offended? Defensive? Deny, you have a problem? Sometimes the best of intentions can have unintended consequences.   Being told that you need help may be interpreted as “there is […]

How Can Depression Affect Your Body?

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Your body tends to respond to its thoughts; for example, if you think you are hungry, your stomach may start to growl. While depression is considered a mental health disorder, there are many ways that depression can affect our bodies physically. It is essential to be physically and mentally healthy, which starts with receiving treatment […]