How to Use Positive Psychology to Support Your Mental Health

How to Use Positive Psychology to Support Your Mental Health

When thinking about mental health, it's easy to view it as either struggling with severe mental disorders and significant stress or not. As a result, we often focus solely on what's wrong without considering all the good qualities in our lives. This trend has its...

The 4 Types of Parenting Styles

The 4 Types of Parenting Styles

According to Pamela Li at Parenting for Brain, the 4 parenting styles commonly used in psychology are based on the unique work of developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s. Maccoby and Martin also contributed by...

Healthy Lifestyle and Mental Health

Healthy Lifestyle and Mental Health

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Mental health is part of overall health. Just like we can’t be well without good mental health, we can’t be healthy if we neglect the rest of our bodies. When dealing with a mental health condition it can be...

Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders

Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders

According to Deanna M. Barch at Washington University in St. Louis, Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders are some of the most impairing forms of psychopathology, frequently associated with a profound negative effect on the individual’s educational,...

5 Techniques To Stop Ruminating

5 Techniques To Stop Ruminating

Rumination and how to get rid of it: Have you ever felt stuck in a loop of the same distressing, intrusive thoughts? Perhaps you fixated on an embarrassing situation or a rude comment someone made no matter how hard you tried to suppress these memories? Or maybe you...

How To Deal with Negative Self-Talk

How To Deal with Negative Self-Talk

Each time you scold or belittle yourself for a minor mistake like running a bit late to a meeting, calling a new coworker by the wrong name, or saying something awkward during a part, you engage in negative self-talk. The more often it happens, the higher chance that...

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Bailey Mariner at Very Well Mind stated that Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver, most often a mother, routinely makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms in a child or adult victim to make it appear that the victim has a...

Selective Mutism in Children

Selective Mutism in Children

Does your child talk at home or with friends but refuse to talk at school? A child with selective mutism (MS) will talk at some times and in some places, but not in others. This might start when your child goes to school. Sometimes, it starts when a child is younger....

Brainspotting Therapy – What is it and How does it Work?

Brainspotting Therapy – What is it and How does it Work?

What is Brainspotting Therapy? According to Theodora Blanchfield, AMFT, and Daniel B. Block, MD, at Very Well Mind, Brainspotting therapy is a type of alternative therapy that uses spots in a person’s visual field to help them process trauma. It accesses trauma...

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