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More...Living Fully with Bipolar Disorder
Movies like Silver Linings Playbook have helped to increase awareness about bipolar disorder in the public imagination, but these fictional depictions usually fall short when it comes to describing what it is like to actually live with the condition.
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More...You Do Not Need To Deal With OCD Alone
It is common for people dealing with OCD to also experience a deep sense of loneliness. This feeling of isolation can be reinforced due to shame about the condition. This creates a situation of being caught inside a mental prison that is governed by intrusive thoughts.
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More...Effective Tools for Dealing with Heartbreak
There is usually no shortage of well-meaning advice being offered when we are dealing with a broken heart. The problem is that most of these suggestions will be just different ways of saying 'get over it'.
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More...How to Develop Mental Wellness
Imagine being stranded on Mars with your prospects of survival looking poor. How would you cope? The hero in the movie, 'The Martian' (2015), which is based on a book of the same name by Andy Weir, faces exactly this predicament.
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More...You Do Not Need To Deal With OCD Alone
It is common for people dealing with OCD to also experience a deep sense of loneliness. This feeling of isolation can be reinforced due to shame about the condition. This creates a situation of being caught inside a mental prison that is governed by intrusive thoughts
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More...Depression Is a Symptom of Buried Anger
A lot of the time when clients at 180 Sanctuary are introduced to the word “trauma”, they associate it only with a catastrophic event such as a war experience, child abuse or a car accident, to name a few.