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In honor of Mental Health Awareness week, this week's blogs will focus on three different common types of Mental Disorders. This blog post will focus on Mood Disorders. Mood Disorders primarily affect the emotional state of the person experiencing them. Mood Disorders are the second most common type of mental health condition. It also affects 1 and 10 adults in...[ read more ]

This is the final blog post in this series. I wanted to highlight the situation many new grads are currently facing in terms of major life changes. In these blog posts, I have highlighted numerous ways in which one can get through life changes and the effect of these major life changes on our mental and physical health. In the...[ read more ]

As we saw in the previous blog for this month is a time of change for a lot of people. In the article below by psychology today the author focuses on ways to get through life changes. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-couch/201809/4-ways-get-through-any-life-change If you're dealing with major life changes that are causing emotional and physical distress always feel comfortable reaching out to a professional.

As Graduation season for college students near an end, thousands of people all over the world will be experiencing drastic life changes. This week I wanted to highlight some videos/ articles that focused on how to deal with life changes. The article below highlights the human response to change in both positive and negative situations.   https://ampersandhealth.co.uk/myarthritis/resources/the-psychology-of-major-life-changes/

In the final blog post for this week on managing stress and anxiety, I wanted to focus on the causes and symptoms of stress and anxiety. This last blog post highlights a health guide article that focus on just this! https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-symptoms-signs-and-causes.htm

Finals week has been happening all across America these last few weeks and continues on. For this week's blog post I wanted to focus on different articles that deal with handling stress. This second article is by WebMD. his article focuses on not only how to manage stress but all how to reduce it. https://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/tips-to-control-stress

Finals week has been happening all across America these last few weeks and continues on. For this week's blog post I wanted to focus on different articles that deal with handling stress. This first article is but the CDC. The article is entitled coping with stress, and it gives tips as to how to deal with stress in a healthy...[ read more ]

This video below continues on our journey of validating emotions. Once again it focuses on the importance of validating emotions and what it means to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woOft9R6g7o  

Psychology Today Article on what it means to validate emotions and how to do that for a loved one! This article follows this series trend on emotional maturity and this week's topic of validating emotions. Make sure to stay tuned for a video on validating emotions and next week's topic of emotional maturity! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pieces-mind/201204/understanding-validation-way-communicate-acceptance

Being able to validate one's emotions is a key aspect of emotional maturity. Validating emotion is, as described by DC VA counseling and psychotherapy, "the process of learning about, understanding, and expressing acceptance of another person's emotional experience... Emotional validation is distinguished from emotional invalidation, in which another person's emotional experiences are rejected, ignored, or judged." As you can see emotional validation is all...[ read more ]