Tag: mental health issues
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12 Ways to Support a Friend with Mental Illness
Remember that classic song about having a little help from your friends? The beauty of friendship is mutual respect and having each other’s back. One of the most significant challenges can be supporting a friend with a mental illness. When you’re around family, friends, and co-workers, you learn their habits and ways of thinking. You…
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Counselors Explain 7 Red Flags of Emotional Dysregulation
Do you ever have deep, intense feelings that overwhelm you to the point of exhaustion? While these emotions are unproductive and harmful, it’s not dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation is a confusing and scary medical condition where someone can be laughing hysterically one minute and crying the next. They seem to have no control over their feelings.…
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10 Red Flags Someone Has Suicidal Thoughts and How to Help
Life is a precious gift that is renewed each day. For some, it can become so burdensome that they decide to take their life. How can you detect warning signs of suicidal thoughts before it’s too late? Brief History of Suicide Anthropologists and zoologists agree that suicide is a human action. The act of killing…