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A 4 Step Guide to Letting Go of the Past
Embed from Getty Images We’re constantly struggling with the past, in so many ways: Mistakes we’ve made that we regret or that make us feel bad about ourselves Anger about something someone did to us...
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What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Embed from Getty Images Sometimes when you’re trying to connect with a family member or friend and their behavior is difficult to understand, you may be dealing with someone who displays signs of...
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Helloooo Anxiety!
Embed from Getty Images — I’m having a panic attack. Right now. Breathing and walking around the house chanting calming phrases aren’t helping, so I’m going to do the only other thing that helps....
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Avoiding the Office Blues
— Maintaining a positive mood in the office or just being at work can sometimes be difficult. Learning a few basic coping mechanisms can help combat office and workplace blues. There are very few...
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Stop People Pleasing Your Life Away into Oblivion
— We often think of addiction as an illness related to substance dependency, but it is much more than that. A type of behavior can also be addictive, like a sexual addiction or being a workaholic. In...
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What is Projection and How to Tell if it’s Affecting Your Relationships
— What is Projection? Projection is a coping mechanism that someone employs to deal with their negative emotions where instead of embracing them, they will cast them on the person or persons closest to...
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Male Drinking Habits
— It would be interesting to hear of male coping mechanisms in places where alcohol is not consumed. John DeVore notes that, “Alcohol, like money, has a way of making you more of who you already happen...
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Masculinity Ended My Dad’s Life, and I Refused To Let It End Mine
My dad died of a heart attack at the young age of 48. I was devastated when I got the call. That was the day everything changed for me. We were inseparable. I remember when I was 8 years old, I was the...
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How Do I Get Over Being Used?
Hey Doc, So basically I recently “broke up” with this girl. The reason I’m phrasing it like that is because we only dated for like a month. During the time I was dating her, I realized she had an...
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My Hiatus
Defeat. That is the word that kept bouncing off the walls of my skull. The word that dragged me to my knees and made me take ten steps back after my one step forward. I was starting to do my...
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Melanted Daddy Joshua Zawadi on Dads Talking™
Joshua Zawadi, the owner and founder of Melanated Daddy is a fatherhood and mental health advocacy platform that celebrates the process of parenting and unpacking trauma to heal in order to be...
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10 Simple Ways To Support Your Kid’s Emotional Development
If you walked into a library recently, you must have noticed the vast bookshelves full of parenting books. I am happy that nowadays parents have access to valuable information about child development...
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How To Cope in Public With Social Anxiety Disorder
Right now, more than 15 million people in the United States suffer from social anxiety disorder. That accounts for nearly 7% of the country’s total population, meaning you’re not alone if you feel...
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Stay Wild – Stumbling Through the Wilderness of Our Soul
The wilderness is tough-love. Love so ferocious it’s meant to alienate us from others, estrange us from the world, and cut us off from ourselves, if that’s what it takes to fully regain our focus. –...
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20+ Songs That Got Me Through the Tail End of My Breakup
I experienced my first real breakup spring of last year. Although I initiated it, it still deeply hurt my heart and damaged my spirit. Before, I was a very peppy and optimistic person. After the...
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Is it Good to Say “It’s All Good”?
According to my research, the phrase “It’s all good” began in the rap world, probably with Hammer’s rap song of that name from 1994. A New Yorker article by Rebecca Mead, discussing this phrase and its...
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Emotional Freedom
The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series that will be running for 100+ days. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in...
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Unabashedly Optimistic
My days feel much like this antelope that we passed while driving in Montana—On Top of the World! Unlike Pollyanna who was blindly optimistic, I’m unabashedly optimistic—not embarrassed to build a...
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Styles of Coping: Diversify Your Coping Toolkit
KEY POINTS Coping mechanisms are cognitive and behavioral approaches that we use to manage internal and external stressors. Problem-focused coping refers to an actionable way to handle a stressful...
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The Most Stressed States
West Virginia is the most stressed state, based on rates of frequent mental and physical stress Kentucky and Arkansas take second and third, respectively Research has revealed the most stressed...
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