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Interviews with researchers, academics and mental health experts; get the lowdown from those in the brain-fixing business.
Does My Employer's Health Insurance Cover My Mental Health? What You Should Know
Employers often provide their employees with health insurance plans to help cover medical costs and protect their health. But when it comes to mental health, many people are unsure if their employer's health insurance plans cover the cost of seeing a therapist or receiving other mental health services. In this blog post, we will answer the question: “Does my employer's health insurance cover my mental health?”
By Les Morgan3 years ago in Psyche
Yho, Life Coach, can you help Teenagers?
YHO, LIFE COACH, CAN YOU HELP TEENAGERS? "What can a Life Coach do for a Teenager?" A well-trained Life Coach can assist anyone that is eager to move to a higher level of achievement or function in school or life in general.
By Bruce Curle `3 years ago in Psyche
Success Starts With You.
There are certain habits that will Help You to Become More Fruitful. These are as follows: 1. Visualization of Success Think about the future you want and visualize it. Successful people emphasis on their vision of success and constantly have a aim and graft for it. Unsuccessful people often think about what they can’t have, can’t get and can’t succeed at.
By Estalontech3 years ago in Psyche
Unstable Energy and Trust
We had the oddest interaction with a would-be filmmaker the other night. This “former addict” who claims to be six years clean, was, I am told, decidedly not clean when he approached a certain publicist just three years ago and told us on THIS call he’d just “had a Xanax” so he’s calm, anxiety in check. Um. That’s the drug he’s claiming to be clean from.
By Martha Madrigal4 years ago in Psyche
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Recently, I have noticed a rise in mental illness diagnosis. Especially in depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. When I asked Google what classifies you as having one, all it said was, "Conditions that affect mood, behavior, and thinking are what make up a mental illness disorder." That makes sense, however, I thought there was going to be more to it than that. The denotation to disorder is heavy, and a detriment to our own well-being. Oxford dictionary describes it as this, "--significant difficulty, distress, impairment and/or suffering in a person's daily life." If society was living in a state of impairment, we wouldn't have made it this far.
By Ali Ryerse5 years ago in Psyche
The Ethos of Evil- Rapists
In 1976, Samuel D. Smithyman published a strange advertisement in a newspaper throughout Los Angeles. He was searching for rapists for his research. He was waiting for his phone to ring. He was not sure that someone would call him or not.
By Krishna V Chaudhary5 years ago in Psyche
Interviews with a Big Black Broad: Sessions #7
Interviewer: When did you began to seek professional help to treat your BDD? BBB: I'm sure it's not surprising that I was reluctant. I was complacent in dealing with my issues on my own up 'til the age of 28. I hid from mirrors. I would dwell in front of mirrors. I took down mirrors. I put them back up. I spent all my money on food, alcohol, makeup, hair products and expensive girdles of all kinds. I hid from the world for days and weeks on end. I drank to endure those moments when I gave in to the mounting pressures I felt to rejoin the world even when I felt the worst about myself. The annoyance of having to deal with a disorder that caused me to focus so much on myself had also taken its toll on me. I wasn't a purposefully vain person. I wasn't someone who would choose to be so self-consumed. I wanted to travel the world. I loved people and wanted to meet more of them from all walks of life. I didn't want to assume that everyone who stared at me only did so because they saw someone ugly. I needed the courage to live the life I ultimately wanted. How could I live any longer without being able to face myself in the mirror? Without being able to leave my house without being inebriated in some way? So, I faced the fact that I would remain stuck in the same positions in my life (literally) if I didn't at least try professional help.
By Anarda Nashai7 years ago in Psyche
Interviews with a Big Black Broad: Session #6
Interviewer: Did you try any permanent cosmetic solutions as a result of your experience with BDD? BBB: I've wanted a nose job since I was about 7 years old. I also wanted lighter skin and straighter hair at that age. By the time I was 12, I wanted all those things, plus a short smaller, more feminine frame. Again, I was a foot taller and wider than my pubescent peers. I had been compared to popular football linesman and EVERY hairy farm animal on the planet. I just wanted out of my body one way or another. I prayed to God that one day, he'd turn me into one of the pretty girls. Later, I learned to avoid the mirror all together because He didn't seem to be listening. After my adolescent years, I couldn't seem to successfully accept or reject being ugly. I was stuck in a pattern of eluding myself, which became both confusing and petrifying. I was isolated: mind, body and soul.
By Anarda Nashai7 years ago in Psyche
Is the UK Doing Enough for Mental Health?
Recently, the deaths of famed rapper Mac Miller, actor Robin Williams and reality TV star Sophie Gredon shook us all to the core we are most scared of—ourselves. Yet still our fears, and our relationships with our own mortality aren’t a conversation for anyone with an aversion to nihilism. With depression being now at epidemic proportions, the UK has now employed a minister solely for the action of suicide prevention. Is it enough? One in five young people have waited over eighteen weeks for mental health intervention. Is the conversation enough?
By Megan Cowan7 years ago in Psyche
Interviews with a Big Black Broad: Session #5
Interviewer: After college, did you find entering the "real world" difficult while attempting to self-medicate your BDD? BBB: I had no idea what I my was in for when I left college. I would no longer have the distractions I depended on over the past few years while I attended school, and as a result of having no therapeutic support, my twenties were a blur of major psychological breakdowns. Also, I was diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance at 19 that would cause me to pick up even more weight and make me even more susceptible to emotional instability. By age 25, I had ballooned up to 230 lbs. At 5'8", I was slovenly obese. In addition to cystic acne, my face had started to develop cradles that no one could see but me, apparently. My entire body seemed to be covered in stretch marks. I fried my kinky hair into silky submission using straightening chemicals and hot irons and wasn't satisfied until it was bone straight and full of body. Others in my hometown didn't see my weight gain as a big deal. Those who noticed my growing self-consciousness reminded me that there were several girls where we came from who were just as big or even bigger than I was. It didn't matter what anyone else looked like. It didn't matter what they thought I looked like either. All I could focus on what how ugly I was compared to everyone else.
By Anarda Nashai7 years ago in Psyche
