5 Mental Health Tips for Surviving the School Year
The coronavirus pandemic continues to upend nearly every aspect of our lives. For parents, this includes once reliable school schedules and calendars. As districts consider a potential return to a traditional school environment this fall, continued distance learning, or a hybrid of the two, parents have lots to consider amid this uncertain situation.
What’s safest for my child and the rest of my family? Should we consider homeschooling? How will his or her learning be impacted? How will we cope with what’s decided?
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About Depression and Major Depressive Disorder
Imagine for a moment that we sit down across from each other and I tell you that I’m going to test your knowledge about behavioral health diagnoses. I will do that by holding up a card with words on it and ask you to tell me everything you know about that word or words. Ready? Here goes. I hold up the first card and it says, “Depression.”
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Self-Care: Why It Is Essential for Your Child’s Emotional Wellbeing
Parenting is a complete rollercoaster ride from conception to forever. Nothing can compare to creating a human and witnessing their developing personalities as they evolve into proper little people learning about the world for the first time. Nothing compares to their little arms hugging you tightly for dear life.
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7 Tools for Managing Traumatic Stress
Staying away from the people, places and situations that trigger these thoughts and memories can be appropriate and helpful at times. However, using avoidance as your only strategy can cause more problems than it attempts to solve. These symptoms can’t be avoided all the time, and trying to may cause you to close yourself off to opportunities, create anxiety or feel even more restrained by your traumatic experience.
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Ten Things You Can Do for Your Mental Health
Treat yourself with kindness and respect, and avoid self-criticism. Make time for your hobbies and favorite projects, or broaden your horizons. Do a daily crossword puzzle, plant a garden, take dance lessons, learn to play an instrument or become fluent in another language.
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Self-Care Tips on Overcoming Abuse-Related Trauma
While trauma is a terrible thing for someone to go through, that doesn’t mean that you have to live with it for the rest of your life. Recovering from abuse-related trauma can be incredibly challenging, but it is possible. Here are six tips you can do to help you in the healing process.
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Why Focusing on Economics During the Pandemic Can Be Harmful to Mental Health
It’s hard to escape. The covid-19 pandemic, its economic fallout, the startling news of new cases in the media — it’s everywhere. From social media memes to news stories, we’re bombarded with updates, stats, conjecture, and gossip around the clock. Many politicians are making statements about reopening the country’s businesses early despite potentially devastating health risks.
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Preventing Household Conflict When You’re Stuck at Home Together
Most of us are so busy with jobs, school, and caretaking responsibilities that extended time at home with our loved ones once seemed like an unattainable dream. Self-isolation, resulting from the coronavirus crisis and government orders to shelter in place, however, can bring with it the silver lining of getting to reconnect with those we live with.
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Pandemic Self-Care for the Long Haul
We’ve all seen the coronavirus memes: an exhausted woman curled up for a nap on the home treadmill, someone dressed in pajamas watching all of Netflix in a week, or emerging from months inside with snarled gray hair covered in cookie crumbs. Everyone is joking about not taking care of themselves and coming out of quarantine looking like Sasquatch. But the jokes aren’t really jokes, are they? According to a recent study, more than half of Americans feel that the pandemic is harming their mental health.
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HCO Behavioral Health Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Coronavirus (COVID-19)
We know there has been a lot of activity in the news about the coronavirus (COVID-19), its symptoms, and what you should do to prevent the spread of the disease.
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Mental Health Home Tips
As the Coronavirus Pandemic continues and many of us are no longer able to leave our homes, it is
important to remember to practice positive mental health habits. During
stressful times and major disruptions to daily routine, it is easy to have
heightened anxiety and feelings of stress and depression. Here are 5 tips to
stay mentally healthy from HCO Behavioral Health services:
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11 Little Ways To Support Someone With High-Functioning Depression
When you think of someone living with depression, you might picture someone at home, curled up in bed and unable to leave. However, not everyone with the condition fits that mold.
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How I Finally Kicked My O.C.D.
“You must really love that song,” my mother says, and for a moment my heart stops.
Both of us are plainly aware she need not be more specific than that. I attempt to read her body language out of the corner of my eye. Does she know? There’s no way, right?
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8 Ways To Trick Yourself Into A Morning Workout
“Sleep in your workout clothes so all you have to do is wash your face, brush your teeth, get your butt in the car and just go,” suggested Ron “Boss” Everline, a celebrity personal trainer and co-star of the YouTube Original series “What the Fit” on Laugh Out Loud’s YouTube channel.
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To Raise Resilient Kids, Be a Resilient Parent
As parents, we want our children to be emotionally resilient — able to handle life’s ups and downs. But parents’ ability to foster resilience in our children hinges a great deal on our own emotional resilience.
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Colorado could allow people — including kids — with autism to use medical marijuana
In a clash of deeply felt testimony, parents in tears pleaded with Colorado lawmakers on Friday to pass a bill allowing their children with autism to use medical marijuana as a treatment.
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SEXPLANATIONS: WORKPLACE ISSUES AND SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS
There’s someone in my on-campus job that is always rude to me. Their comments are rude and often aimed towards my gender and sexuality. I need the job, and I’m not sure if my boss will believe me or help me switch shifts. Is there anything that could be done?
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UN celebrates voice and visibility of women and girls with autism
Activists, ambassadors and actors gathered at the United Nations on Thursday to underline their commitment to empowering women and girls with autism, a lifelong neurological condition that begins in childhood and is characterized by some degree of impaired social behaviour, communication and language.
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'You Would Always Have My Back': Brothers With Autism Navigate Life Together
Brothers Russell, 28, and Remmick Wadsworth, 27, have autism. As kids, they had trouble with social interactions, so they often relied on each other for support during tough situations. Now, as the siblings navigate the working world, they're still looking out for each other.
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Eating disorder treatment: Know your options
Treatments for eating disorders include therapy, education and medication. Find out what works.
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