What is Mental Health?
Articles about mental health often focus on mental illness rather than mental health. But what is mental health? If you were to ask two people to define this term, you'd probably get two different answers. What seems healthy to one person may not seem so to another, and each person's definition would depend on his or her own culture and values.
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Drifting & Anxiety and Stress Reduction
Gretchen Rubin is a published author who began her career as a lawyer after drifting into law school, not because she particularly had that goal in mind, but because it was just the next natural step after taking the LSAT.
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What Causes Anxiety?
What causes anxiety? Deanne Repich, anxiety author and educator, gives free anxiety help online. Deanne explores the causes of anxiety; factors include biology, stress, lifestyle, childhood, thought patterns, genetic predispositions.
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Types of Anxiety Disorders
In reviewing the anxiety types, author and educator Deanne Repich lists the symptoms of panic and panic attacks, covers phobias and GAD anxiety, demonstrates the signs of social anxiety and explores symptoms of PTSD and OCD.
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Why Can't I Stop Worrying?
What is the difference between diagnosable (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, GAD) anxiety and worry? Symptoms can look similar for all of these: worry, stress, depresion, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety. Psychologist Jan Morris, experienced
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Overcoming Concerns about Breathing
People who are familiar with feeling anxiety often experience shallow breathing. Anxiety then breeds more worry about breath. Anxiety educator, Deanne Repich, shares myths and facts about breath and anxiety.
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A Look at Mental Health
Although mental health is difficult to define, most people would probably agree that mentally healthy individuals relate well to others, cope effectively with stress, and make choices that align with positive values, take care of their physical health, and respect themselves and others. They also know when they need to seek mental health counseling.
While being mentally healthy is the ideal, mental illness is a very real problem. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, mental illness affects one in five families in the U. S. Some mental illnesses have a physical cause, such as a chemical imbalance in the brain, and some may be triggered by stress or trauma. If you're struggling with a mental illness, or if issues such as anxiety and sadness are preventing you from having a satisfying life, it may be time for you to begin mental health counseling.
Mental Health Counseling
Mental health articles stress that mental health counseling works! Of course, counseling is essential for people with mental illness but it's also effective for people who simply need support as they work through a difficult life situation. In your search for a psychotherapist, look for someone who views you as a whole person no matter the issue you bring in, in other words as a person who can heal and grow rather than as a person who needs help. Such a non-pathologizing approach will empower you on your healing journey and give you encouragement to participate fully in the collaborative effort of therapy.
