Mental Health

Guide on mental health and care, covering information on mental disorders, the diagnosis and treatment of several mental health conditions including anxiety, eating, sleep, behavioral, personality disorders, and other mental illnesses.
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Passive Aggressive Traits
People suffering from passive aggressive traits often suppress their anger and frustration and inculcate a pessimistic attitude towards life. They prefer to take a non-verbal way of expressing their annoyance and displeasure.

Mental Health Therapist
The responsibility of a mental health therapist is to ensure mental and emotional health of his patients. He does this by holding a number of sessions where he tries to understand and diagnose the problem of his clients, and help them through a number of therapeutic measures...

How to Deal with Grief
The pain of losing of a loved one can shatter one's life. The emotional turmoil that one goes through at this stage can rob one of sanity. It is important to know how to deal with grief, so that one can prevent his/her life from falling apart...

7 Stages of Grief
Grief is often caused by the loss or death of a loved one, which can be at times stressful and exhausting. Grief is a natural feeling and is divided into 7 stages. To know more about the 7 stages of grief, read on...

Mental Health in Pregnancy
Understanding the impact of psychological problems faced by pregnant women, on their mental health and pregnancy, is vital for the well being of the mother and the child. Read on to know more about mental health in pregnancy. Disorders that are faced by nearly one in seven women, at some or the other point during pregnancy and even after birth.

What is Mental Health
Mental health has a deep impact on the overall well-being of our life. Read on to know what we should do to maintain mental health.

Mental Health: Treatment for Mental Illness
Today, a wide range of treatment options are available for people with mental illness. It all depends on the kind and degree of symptoms displayed by patients. Read on to know more...

Mental Health Tips
A healthy mind is as important as a fit body. Here are some tips to maintain good mental health..

Emotions, The Engine Of Life
Can emotions be controlled? Yes, a good evaluation of the situation saves us from the urge of reacting improperly as pushed by anger. The article below is very helpful in making us understand why a good evaluation is so important.

Spirituality May Help Women’s Mental Health
A recent study shows that when women change their patterns regarding a spiritual practice, their mental health suffers.

Grief Counseling
Grief counseling can help grieving individuals to deal with their feelings of intense grief following the loss of a loved one.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills for Mental Health - PLEASE
An overview of the PLEASE skill from Dr. Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavioral therapy.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - A Revolutionary Approach to Mental Health Recovery
An overview of Dr. Marsha Linehan's therapy for borderline personality disorder that's proving useful in the treatment of other mental illnesses as well.

Mental Health Perspectives: Part Four
Chasing happiness and ways to find happiness and prevent mental illness.

Mental Health Perspectives - Part Three
Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorders...

Mental Health Perspectives: Part Two
Part two features a piece on depression and its effects on the mind and body.

Mental Health Perspectives: Part One
The first part in a series on mental health from the perspective of the mentally ill.

Emotions and their Affect on the Internal Organs
Buddha quotes "Mind is the forerunner of all things" and from a Chinese Medicine point of view he was so right. Every thought you have has the ability to affect your internal system and can quite often be the cause of a sickness that you have been unable get rid of.

What is Psychiatry?: A Common Sense Guide, Part One
Most of the groups operating in our society at this time are beneficial. A few vested interest groups are as inimical to its health as malignant tumors. Unfortunately they escape detection because they lie about their actual intentions and misrepresent themselves. Among these is psychiatry

Did You Know?
This is the first in my series of articles on psychiaitry and the psychiatric assault upon the freedoms, human rights and sanity of man. I know of no more venal, viscious and dangerous a vested interest group than psychiatry and no group that has wrought more harm upon human civilization. It is my pleasure to play my small part in bringing its crimes to your attention..

The Language of Clutter - What are They Really Saying?
This article interprets the common words and phrases used by people living with clutter. It reveals that most chronic clutter behavior is emotionally driven.

About Mindfulness, Meditation and Mental Health
How simple mindfulness and meditation practices enhance mental health by decreasing anxiety and reactivity and enriching relationships.

How Does a Hostage's Mental Health Hold Up?
The key, according to consultant forensic clinical psychologist Ged Bailes, is accepting that life will never be the same again

Mental Power and Long Term Exercising
One of the weight loss secretes is how to achieve long-term exercising. Here are some essential steps to help you do that.

A Dark Age for Mental Health
Darian Leader: A therapy last used on a mass scale in China's cultural revolution is to be unleashed on the NHS.

Mental Health Disorders Are Treatable
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Can Your Mind Really Create Health?
LIKE a stone thrown into the water, a thought produces ripples and waves which spread out over the great ocean of thoughts. There is this difference, however: the waves on the water move only on a level plane in all directions, whereas thought waves move in all directions from a common center, just as do the rays from the sun.

Foods To Lift Your Mood
There is no scientific dispute any longer that what you eat can affect your mood – whether you feel up, or down.

How Food Affects Your Mood
What you eat does affect your mood, so choose wisely. Three types affect you differently. Which one are you?

Mindfulness And Mental Health Improvement
Are mindfulness and mental health related? Can basic mindfulness exercises help improve your mental health? Yes.

Morality as a Mental State
Moral values, rules, principles, and judgements are often thought of as beliefs or as true beliefs. Those who hold them to be true beliefs also annex to them a warrant or a justification (from the "real world").