More people today are reporting that they experience severe anxiety than ever before. While everyone on earth deals with nervousness and fear from time to time, the amount of people dealing with anxiety that’s so constantly present and intense it’s overwhelming has steadily increased. If you’re one of those people, you know exactly how terrible…
Anxiety and panic attacks are incredibly unpleasant things to experience, and dealing with them on a regular basis can make you feel scared, stressed, and alone. However, they’re also incredibly common! Most people will experience a panic attack at least once in their life, and there are many ways of dealing with them that can…
Bipolar disorder was once a deeply misunderstood diagnosis. For someone to receive it was an embarrassing and painful process without much hope of treatment. Today, luckily, things are much different. Bipolar disorder is now understood to be fairly common, affecting millions of people every year in the United States. Treatments for the disorder have also…
Depression is an incredibly debilitating mental illness to deal with, even given how common it is, and one of the most pervasive ways that it makes your life harder is by making you feel lonely and isolated. The symptoms of depression often make it difficult for you to maintain the friendships and relationships that you…
The main difference between depression and garden-variety sadness is that depression makes it difficult for people to function at their usual level. It’s a major diagnostic indicator for mental health professionals– if something is negatively affecting a person’s daily life, it’s crossing over the line into being a disorder. For this reason, depression can make…
Just the phrase bipolar disorder conjures up a lot of thoughts in your head when you hear it. Many of these ideas are probably based on the loose understanding that the general public has of bipolar disorder, and they’re probably not very positive or encouraging. People with bipolar disorder are often unfairly written off as…
Triggers are a major part of life when you’re living with post traumatic stress disorder. Triggers can be just about anything– people, places, things, smells, sounds, words, and more– that remind you of a traumatic instance or instances that left you with PTSD. Sometimes triggers may not even seem to make sense, but they can…
We’ve all had it happen to us: you’re scrolling through your social media of choice, and you see someone from your circle posing in a stunning location, enjoying a night out with friends, celebrating a milestone or the purchase of a new car, or just about any other aspirational event that commonly gets posted online.…