What Helps Bethie, 55, With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

“We need to grieve the ones we’ve lost—not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” ~Jennifer Williamson

Dangerous Minds. Michelle Pfeiffer played a teacher sent to one of the roughest areas with the highest dropout rates. ADVERTISEMENT While she received an excellent education and was a good teacher, she quickly had to develop her social intelligence to handle one of the roughest school systems in the country.

How do I want to be remembered? Tasha Eurich, behavioral psychologist and author of , a book about self-awareness, says this will help leaders create a positive culture around that answer.Gaining self-awareness helps leaders become more intentional about their role in developing culture. No one is saying that all employees will think you’re the best boss in history, but leaders who use their emotional intelligence to monitor themselves are better equipped to help their companies make the transition with their culture not only intact but thriving.Being socially aware requires empathy, or the ability to understand the perspective of others.

Dune discussion. This is a great story for everybody. It takes itself seriously, but it takes the audience seriously, too.

Moldavite is a powerful crystal that is known for its many properties. Moldavite is often used to increase psychic abilities, promote spiritual growth and attract love. It is also said to offer protection from negative energies and help to clear blockages in the chakras. If you’re interested in learning more about this fascinating crystal, read on for more information!

Vacation time means exploring new places, meeting new people, and indulging in some of their favourite foods. The anticipation of all these great experiences can make the excitement build up inside before they even start packing. Travelling to a destination with delicious cuisine can be a fun and rewarding experience for the whole family. You’ll get to explore a new place while indulging in some of the best food the country has to offer. Here are six reasons why you should try it!

When travelling to a new place, one of the best ways to experience everything the city, nature, or town has to offer is by getting out and exploring. There are endless possibilities when it comes to outdoor activities, so we’ve compiled a list of our top five picks that will get your heart racing and help you explore all that your new destination has to offer!

study that couples who have learned how to communicate during a conflict will have a long-lasting relationship. They are committed to talking things through instead of running away or fighting back. These couples value communication and make it work.If you’re not talking to your partner about money issues, it will cost you.

Autoimmune diseases have traditionally been seen as a black box by the broader medical community. For many people struggling with autoimmune conditions, they have cycled through dozens of doctors trying to find someone, first, to believe them, and second, to help them manage their symptoms. The medical community’s narrative is that autoimmune conditions are a complete mystery, but are characterized as “the body attacking itself.” While the exact process and course of the disease are unclear for many of these disorders, we now understand the factors that contribute to the development of autoimmune disorders. One of those factors is stress. Notably, long-term chronic stress; and one of the sources of long-term stress is early developmental trauma. A growing body of evidence suggests these experiences affect people on a biological level for years after the event has ended.

Almost everyone will admit they have areas or habits in their lives they feel can be better than they are at the moment. Some people may feel they can be more kind and compassionate, others feel they can be more assertive, and others feel they can be more peaceful and happy.For me, a few years ago, I felt I could be less angry and explosive.

their phones, so it’s hard to escape things that pull your focus away from your task. It seems that everyone has their phone nearby and within reach even when they’re busy with other things. It’s hard to stay focused on anything else with nonstop notifications, text messages, emails, video games, and so much more.There are also many other distractions surrounding you, including your stress levels.

Burnout is more common than ever as the stress of the pandemic has doubled in recent years. Whether you work from home or office, you are bound to feel the pressure of the situation. Boundaries are blurred, deadlines are tighter, and clients are frustrated. Financial anxiety, relationship blues, and the fear of the virus, all […]

It is easy to get distracted, especially in today’s world, but learning how to improve your concentration and focus can make it easier to stay on task. There are several ways you can improve your concentration and limit the effects of distraction.

Dear pain-in-my-feet:

I sat with her, across from her in my therapy room, the coffee table between us, the box of tissues in reach.

Many people who live with eating disorders end up seeking treatment at for-profit eating disorder treatment centers. Though everyone’s treatment experiences look different, eating disorder treatment centers typically strive to help clients process their feelings surrounding their eating disorders and heal their relationships with food. Although some treatment centers successfully help clients reach full recovery, there are still a variety of areas in which treatment centers as a whole can improve. For National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I asked current and former eating disorder treatment clients from all walks of life what eating treatment centers do well and how they can improve. Here’s what they had to say.

It feels a bit like, before my trauma… my life was this delicate glass ball of swirling colors. There may have been a few hairline fractures or smudges on the surface, but it was whole and easily defined. Then something happened, and I lost my grip. The ball fell to the ground and shattered into a million pieces.

“I believe the real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.” -Nikki Rowe

Living with mental illness is a shit. Whether that illness comes from nature or nurture is neither here nor there. Through the course of the illness, you learn ways to manage distress and those ways are frequently unproductive. Often numbing.

"My mood suddenly spiked and I booked to go to Singapore last minute despite having no money."Towards Christmas my mood dropped again and this lasted until April. I didn’t sit all of my exams and failed the ones I did sit. Instead of feeling low, my mood suddenly spiked and I booked to go to Singapore last minute and stay at the famous marine Bay Sands hotel despite having no money.

Every employee has felt the effects of workplace stress. Even a job you adore can be difficult. You may be under time pressure to meet a deadline or perform a challenging assignment. On the other hand, chronic workplace stress can be overwhelming and harmful to physical and mental health.

When you ask the vast majority of people what is harder being a stay-at-home mom or working, most of them would believe that being a stay-at-home mother was easy. However, for those of us who know firsthand – it’s anything but.I’ve heard it all: stay-at-home moms are lazy, or they need to get a real job, or they should work and tend to their kids. The list goes on and on, and honestly, it’s pretty ignorant.A long time ago, I would have honestly even agreed with them.

My battle with an eating disorder began when I was 20 years old and in nursing school. Really, I had had disordered eating from a very young age, but it didn’t become a diagnosable problem until I was 20. When I was very young, around 7 years old, my mother put me on diets, introduced obsessive thinking towards weight, calories, exercise, and constantly shamed me for my eating habits and made me feel as though the body I had wasn’t good enough.

download our three Positive Psychology Exercises for free. These science-based exercises explore fundamental aspects of positive psychology, including strengths, values, and self-compassion, and will give you the tools to enhance the wellbeing of your clients, students, or employees.Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development remains among the most complete and influential theories describing how the human mind shapes and develops through the process of learning.At the University of Geneva in the 1960s, Piaget employed elegant experimental techniques and keen observational insight to analyze the moving pieces of cognitive development in children (Scott & Cogburn, 2021).A biologist by training, Piaget took a pragmatic and mechanistic approach to understanding how the advanced architecture of human cognition develops, looking past the intuitive conception of the mind as something apparently complex and unapproachable to see simple and ordered principles of organization lying underneath (Scott & Cogburn, 2021).At the core of Piaget’s theory are stages of development (Malik & Marwaha, 2021; Scott & Cogburn, 2021), a series of overall states of increasing cognitive sophistication defined principally by how the developing human ‘knows’ (i.e., understands) the world.Learning is both the cognitive activity that occurs during these stages and the process of moving between stages.

With our ongoing “What Helps Me” series, The Mighty is leaning into what sets us apart from other health sites: We aim to provide real health advice from real people who live it.

February 17, 2022People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face higher mortality risks than does the general population, according to a new meta-analysis published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.1 The study found that death in childhood or midlife from natural or unnatural causes was twice as likely for people with ADHD or autism, compared to the general population.The systematic review and meta-analysis examined 27 studies published between 1988 and 2021, including data on more than 642,000 participants from North America and Europe. When causes of death were examined, ADHD and ASD were associated with higher mortality due to unnatural causes such as injury, poisoning, or suicide.

Eating disorders can take on many different appearances. And it is important to know it isn’t always being bulimic or anorexic. Sometimes it is having an unhealthy relationship with food, being fearful of eating around others, being scared of certain food choices and people’s judgment on what you eat and how much you eat. It’s also your family continually saying something every time you have a plate in your hand. And how do I know this? Because I have had disordered eating for 30 years. And I recently learned that disordered eating runs in my family…..and that made me have all the more rage.

I have been on a journey this past year as it relates to my body image and weight struggles. I learned that I did not need to diet anymore, I can be healthy at my size, I can move my body joyfully, and that I was acceptable just the way I am.

Eating disorders continued for more than 10 years. Drugs, alcohol problems and self harm followed. I was trapped in a vortex of pain without being able to feel or understand what was going on.

With our ongoing “What Helps Me” series, The Mighty is leaning into what sets us apart from other health sites: We aim to provide real health advice from real people who live it.

After I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I started reading a lot of books on the subject, mostly memoirs by fellow people with bipolar disorder. I was trying to learn more about the illness and perhaps feel less alone in it, and I did to an extent, but all the most well-known bipolar memoirs are by white people. Which is fine, I can relate to people who aren’t of the same ethnicity as me, frankly I find it weird that apparently a lot of people can’t… But even though I recognize myself in a lot of white bipolar memoirs, I will concede it is extra nice to read about the experiences of other people of color with bipolar and get to relate to them in more than one way.

I grew up in a middle-class home. My father was a college professor, and my mother stayed at home with my sister and me and had a medical transcription business. We went to church every Sunday, and I attended two different private schools. I did very well in school. I even had a book contract at the age of 15.

I remember being in elementary school and hearing I could do anything and be anyone I wanted to be if I put my mind to it. I think a lot of us often hear something similar when we’re children. Is it true, though? Can we do anything with just sheer will if we try hard enough? Although I think it’s something that can be inspiring, I’m not sure I have seen that idea play out in my own life, and I think others may have also experienced the loss of a dream. When you become an adult, there may be choices and circumstances out of your control that can alter your ability to go after your dreams you may have had when you were younger.

I was anxious prior to the six-year anniversary of my concussion — cruel anticipation finally leading to a shower cry. But I was fine on January 4th. Actually, I was great. I lay in bed with COVID symptoms, but the chills and muscle aches and fatigue didn’t faze me. I have spent so much time in bed resting with post-concussive syndrome that it almost felt like a relief to have an illness overshadow whatever this is. A different kind of headache, a comfortable kind of tiredness.

fear of failure, procrastination, repeat — is true for so many people, especially those with ADHD. The perfectionist part of you wants to avoid experiencing shame, blame, and embarrassment. You’ll do everything you can – even procrastinate – to make sure you don’t experience those feelings, even if it only makes things worse down the line.But here’s the thing (and I’ll say it no matter how corny it sounds): When you make choices that hold you back in any way, what you’re really doing is depriving the world of the uniqueness that is you.

I have had chronic pain for 15 years. I was 13 when it started. In particular the past five, almost six years now I’ve had level 10 pain this whole time. I have full body pain and it never quits. I’ve bed bound for 10 years.

Everyone encounters stress in their lives. Some might have to battle stress on a daily basis and others once in a while. When it comes to single parents of children with disabilities, the stress and struggle can overshadow our every move.

Stress, according to most doctors, is the number one trigger for health issues and many different conditions. This puts stress higher up the ladder than tobacco or alcohol. Stress releases chemical hormone compounds in our bodies causing a series of issues, from heartburns and cardiovascular problems to liver damage and kidney conditions. These are the physical signs of stress; the more serious issue is the psychological impact it has on a single individual.

With our ongoing “What Helps Me” series, The Mighty is leaning into what sets us apart from other health sites: We aim to provide real health advice from real people who live it.

know how to relax?Even if you believe in reincarnation, this present life is all you have. You can have all the luxuries that the world can afford and still have no joy. Here are 20 ways to learn how to balance work and play and live your best life.

Southern New Hampshire University, you must consider your health physically, mentally, and spiritually, as you must reset.According to the article, when you take time for yourself, it improves your anxiety and depression, reduces anger, enhances your energy, and you’ll be much happier.You know that calming your mind is something you must do, but you’re unsure where to start. Here’s a list of the best ways to bust through stress, calm yourself, and rejuvenate your mind. ADVERTISEMENT Few things in this life feel as great as a massage.

On November 2, 2002, my husband and I vowed to stay with each other through good times and bad. At the young ages of 22 and 27, we focused more on the good part. We were both healthy individuals. Our future lay before us. We were unstoppable. The bad times were reserved for maybe our golden years — or so we thought.

Nearly one-third of people with an eating disorder will never seek treatment. This is often because they do not recognize that they have a problem. It is important to be aware of the signs and symptoms of eating disorders so that you can get help if you or someone you know is suffering. There are some red flags that should signal to you that you

Though struggling with anxiety, especially in the workplace, can be an isolating experience, sufferers are far from alone. There have been increasing rates of people reporting frequent symptoms of anxiousness and stress, with the cumulative impact of the coronavirus crisis prompting speculation of a “mental health pandemic”, in the words of the Office for National […]

With our ongoing “What Helps Me” series, The Mighty is leaning into what sets us apart from other health sites: We aim to provide real health advice from real people who live it.

toxic attachment patterns, your love life will always be lacking. You risk seeing yourself in a bad light, which in turn makes you have low self-worth. Because of this, you might cling to any person that shows you even the tiniest drop of attention.

The ultrasound tech said the doctor would explain afterward. The tech would take pictures of the baby, while the doctor reviewed the images in a different room. I watched the tech’s expression while I leaned back on the stiff hospital chair, jelly sliding on my round stomach. She clicked in silence, images froze on the screen. Clouds, a dark blob. The baby’s heart, she said. She only looked calm, and I tried to relax, reminded myself again of the odds that the doctors told us, that everything was fine. 

I woke up this morning only to wish that I didn’t. Every day, when I first open my eyes, I forget. I forget the pain. I forget the monotony. I forget the amount of effort it takes for me to function. I forget I’m chronically ill. In those first few seconds of the day, I feel light. I feel whole. I feel free. And then, all at once, the heaviness pushes down on my chest. Nothingness becomes everything. Now, I lie in bed dreading the day. I lie there debilitated by anxiety, depression, and discomfort. The thought of rising even to get dressed is too intimidating. Only five minutes have passed and every ounce of energy I have is already depleting.