Mental Health Mondays: Message of the Day.

I have learned that spending time with positive people, will turn you into a positive person. If you hang out with negative people, you will find yourself leaning towards being a negative person.  The best thing that you can do is remove the negative people from your life. Yes, I understand that you do areContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays: Message of the Day.”

Mental Health Stigmas

Courtesy of the Nami Site Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties regulating emotion. This means that people who experience BPD feel emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event. This difficulty can leadContinue reading “Mental Health Stigmas”

Mental Health Mondays: Socratic Method Could Radically Improve Your Mental Well-Being.

by Jon Hawkins This is what happens when you start to ask questions. The Socratic method is predicated on asking questions. It takes our assumptions and enters them into a dialogue. It involves critically asking about those presuppositions, to discover whether they are in fact true. It asks questions like: According to Socrates, this methodContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays: Socratic Method Could Radically Improve Your Mental Well-Being.”

Mental Health Mondays: Creating Mental Well-Being For Everyone

by Kamlesh D. Patel Dear friends, Human beings have a very wonderful characteristic when it comes to observing and looking after our health. When nothing is wrong we remain carefree and oblivious to our bodily health, because our body does not give us any signals, but when something is wrong the body definitely gives usContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays: Creating Mental Well-Being For Everyone”

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years for defrauding investors

By California, Kari Paul in San Jose with the Guardian A federal judge has sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison over her role in the blood testing firm that collapsed after its technology was revealed to be largely fraudulent. Holmes was convicted in January on four counts of defrauding investors.Continue reading “Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years for defrauding investors”

Need to Boost Your Brain’s Health?

Thinking about your mental fitness? Many everyday habits and conditions can impact our brain power — up or down. Memory lapses can occur at any age, and aging alone is generally not a cause of mental decline. When significant memory loss occurs as we age, it is likely due to physical disorders, brain injury or neurologicalContinue reading “Need to Boost Your Brain’s Health?”

Mental Health Mondays: The Most Powerful Tool For Mental Well-Being I Learned From Psych

Be not that which shall arise. Does the tree resist the falling of its leaves? Does the river resist its inevitable flow? Does the sage resist the coming of a feeling? They don’t, for resistance is pointless. Reaction is wisdom’s nemesis. Have you ever fired off a snarky email and instantly regretted it? Have youContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays: The Most Powerful Tool For Mental Well-Being I Learned From Psych”

Mental Health Mondays: Feeling Like an Outsider? How to Be Accepted Even Though You’re Different.

by Mona Lazar How I learned to live according to my own rules, with people who have the same values and ideals. No one ever said that life would be easy. Actually, I bet your parents told you life is hard. They lived in a different time when people’s view on reality was not influenced byContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays: Feeling Like an Outsider? How to Be Accepted Even Though You’re Different.”

Mental Health Mondays:

Here Are the Cheat Codes to a Better Life Crowdsourced from the internet Life is a bizarre video game. There are cheat codes that can help you level up to a better life. Here are some I crowdsourced from the internet. Pursue your goals in private Instagram created this stupid bragging culture. It taught normal people to take photosContinue reading “Mental Health Mondays:”

Mental Health Monday: Through Glass: How not mentalizing creates borderline personality.

by Kevin Redmayne (Medium) Mentalization-Based Treatment is changing how we view mental health — it is in fact revolutionizing therapy for BPD. In 1967, a teenage Hungarian refugee named Peter Fonagy was checked in to a mental health clinic in Hampstead, London. Fifty-two years later that same clinic is now the Anna Freud Centre. PeterContinue reading “Mental Health Monday: Through Glass: How not mentalizing creates borderline personality.”