A Look into Different Types of Anxiety
Everyone gets affected by anxiety. It is perfectly normal to feel stressed or anxious every now and then. These anxieties often help us manage our…
Tag: mental health
5 Things to Give Up to Live the Life You Want
Imagine sitting on your deathbed. Would you be content dying, looking back at how your life turned out? It’s a scary thought—being left with the…
Meet Derik Brian, Founder of Solara Mental Health [Interview]
Hello readers and followers of Psych2Go! For those who are subscribed to our weekly newsletter, thank you so much. If you’re not subscribed, then you’re…
STOP Romanticizing Mental Illness!
Now-a-days mental illness is romanticized in movies, television shows, and on social media. It makes people believe that to recover from mental illness you need…
Depression Taught Me to Love Myself More
Those of you who follow me know that I have battled with Persistent Depressive Disorder since I was a kid. Depression molded me into someone…
7 Benefits of Owning a Cat
Cats often make an enigmatic appearance in the works of my favorite writer Haruki Murakami. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved…
9 Small Ways to Have Better Mental Health in the New Year
As you know, for the countries that use a Gregorian Calendar New Year is just around the corner. While for many this would be a…
5 Ways Mindfulness Can Improve Your Life
Today, we live in a fast-paced world that makes it hard to find peace when we’re constantly one click away from news, one text message…
7 Common Misconceptions about Loneliness
According to John Cacioppo, author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, loneliness is on the rise because we aren’t as closely…
7 Feel-Good Songs To Help Your Depression
Depression, especially major depressive disorder, is a serious mental illness. Depression affects how the sufferer sees and interacts with the world around them. One symptom…
Social isolation and its effects among teenagers
Alex is a seventeen year old girl. However, she is socially isolated. By many standards, she is a very normal teenager but it is on…
OCD… What is it? An Understanding of Mental Illness
Obsessive compulsive disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is a mental illness that affects roughly 1 in 40 adults and 1 in 100 children. The…
Depression Almost Took My Life
**WARNING THIS STORY MAY BE TOO STRONG OR TRIGGERING FOR SOME READERS** Depression in every person is unique, in the sense that everyone experiences it…
8 Ways Playing Videogames Can Make You a Better Person
There is a lot of prejudice against people who play videogames, particularly when it concerns action games and first-person shooters. For example, people say they…
6 Tricks to Staying Positive
Positivity can be hard to find at times. Circumstances outside of our control can have negative effects on our lives, our health, and our mental…
5 Things that Happen to Your Brain when You have a Chronic Illness
A chronic illness is any illness that lasts for 3 months or more. As of 2012 and CDC puts the estimation for chronic illness at…
7 Facts About Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that have genetic, biological, and psychological beginnings. While these disorders are serious they are treatable. With the correct therapies,…
8 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health
Before you go on with this article, it is of major importance that you understand this; your mental health is more than a diagnosis. Mental…
4 Differences Beween Introvert and Asocial. Which One Are You?
There are many differences between being an introvert and being asocial. There are also a few similarities as well and this is where the confusion…
10 Things You Shouldn’t say to Someone with a Mental Illness
Mental illness is one of those topics that begs discussion but is shrouded in taboo. The discussions will bring about questions that need to be…