selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
27, 28, 29, 30. 31...
It started at 27. Coincidentally, 27 was the most chaotic, beautiful, and memorable year of my life. I married, got a puppy, had my very first "big girl job" out of graduate school, and became an aunt. It was everything. It was pre-COVID bliss. Until it wasn't. Until it became a 50-pound weight gain, calling out of work seemingly every other week, missing doses of my SSRI (and my anti-hypertensive, YIKES) because I couldn't give a fuck, and requiring every last milliliter... (Milligram? How does one measure energy? This distractibility has increased one hundred fold since my diagnosis!) ...of my life force to type a two-word text response.
By Lindsey Donat3 years ago in Psyche
The Benefits of Meditation
The growing popularity of meditation and mindfulness practices Advocating the use of meditation and mindfulness has become fairly widespread recently, and for a good justification. Life in the quick-paced, anxiety-filled contemporary age leaves many of us psychologically drained and longing for efficient pressure-management approaches - meditation being a marvellous one.
By Mohammad Hammash3 years ago in Psyche
Bipolar Disorder and What It Means To Eat the Frog
I used to wake up every day dreading my biggest challenge. I put it off for as long as possible, but knew I would have to confront it head-on. It is always such a relief when you don’t procrastinate and get the hard tasks over and done with.
By Scott Ninneman3 years ago in Psyche
Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism
Learned helplessness is a phenomenon in which an individual experiences a sense of powerlessness in situations where they have previously been exposed to uncontrollable, negative events. Discovered quite serendipitously, it has since been credited by some scholars as the impetus that resulted in cognitive psychology’s displacement of behaviorism. This phenomenon has since been observed in a wide range of species, including humans, and has been the subject of extensive research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.
By Donna L. Roberts, PhD (Psych Pstuff)3 years ago in Psyche
Writing with ADHD
It has taken me an unbelievably long time to start writing this. Eight months in fact! Most of my readers by now are probably thinking I’ve slipped off into the abyss. Some may not even think of me anymore. Even now, as I write this sentence, I wonder how long the burst of motivation I’m feeling is going to last; I wonder if I’ll ever finish it.
By Outrageous Optimism 3 years ago in Psyche
