Tag: depression
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What Is Passive Suicidal Ideation?
Explore passive suicidal ideation, its causes, risks, and how early intervention and mental health treatment can help prevent escalation and promote healing.
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How Do You Know: You Need Help?
When life is hard, it’s tempting to “tough it out” and hope things get better on their own. But ignoring problems rarely creates a solution. When it comes to your mental health, this is especially true. Professional help exists for a reason, and it can give you back an emotionally and mentally healthy life.
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Mental Health Support for Suicidal Ideation
Suicidal ideation is when a person is contemplating suicide, which may involve imagining how they would commit suicide, what the world would be like without them, or fantasizing about ending their pain through suicide. Suicidal ideation can arise from difficult life circumstances such as poverty or abuse, mental illness, poor physical health, trauma, or even…
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The Healing Power of Silence
Is silence good for you? Today, meditation and mindfulness use the discipline of getting quiet to boost mental health. Research has shown that silence can actually decrease stress and lower blood pressure, among other benefits. So how can you experience the healing power of silence, and what does that look like?
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Success and Suicide
By Christa Banister Let’s be real. Who among us hasn’t daydreamed about how much happier life would be had we only bought the winning Powerball ticket? Or walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards, made partner at the firm, qualified for the Olympics, made a significant scientific discovery? As exciting and game-changing as all…
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Social Media’s Problem With Predatory Algorithms
Can social media algorithms be altered so that they don’t lead users down a toxic path? Even if so, how can we protect ourselves — and especially more vulnerable users, like children and teens — in the meantime?
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Early Empty Nesters
By Wesley Gallagher Technology. It’s everywhere, for better or for worse. Children, in particular, are surrounded by it. While many adults remember a time when there were no laptops or cell phones, kids these days have been holding iPhones since before they could walk, and it’s changing the way young people grow up. Parents of…
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Combatting Comparison Culture
Social media fuels comparison culture, pushing idealized lifestyles that harm self-esteem and mental health, leading to mental health issues.
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Daylight Saving: The Cost for Those Prone to SAD
By Wesley Gallagher It’s fall, y’all. Leaves are turning, the weather is cooling, and summer grill outs are giving way to autumn firepits. While some of us may be excited about the changing seasons and the return of sweaters, others may miss the hot weather and hope the first snow is late this year. Either…
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When Fear Causes Anxiety & Depression
By Anna McKenzie Fear can protect us from harm, but it can also cause harm. When we feel constantly under threat — whether from our circumstances or unresolved trauma — we become vulnerable to developing mental health issues or experiencing a mental health crisis. So, how should we respond when we feel fear? Learning to…
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The Anxiety of Living with Unresolved Grief
By Tian Dayton, Ph.D., Psychologist, Author, Psychodramatist, Senior Fellow at The Meadows Grief that’s out in the open, part of the natural cycle of life, or part of one of life’s tragic circumstances has a dignity to it. The person experiencing a loss feels that they have a right to grieve and accept care and…
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Major Depression Rates Surge
Major depression cases in America are climbing rapidly, according to a study of medical claims by the health insurance group, Blue Cross Blue Shield.