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Managing Self-Awareness and Mental Health

My Brains Not Broken

The common thread is that I’ve never been with one therapist long enough to making any long-term changes – until now. And now that I’m noticing some things about myself and how mental health affects my life, I’m facing a new challenge. So, what is self-awareness?

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How Stress Can Affect Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Historically for me and others with mental health challenges, stress can have a life-limiting and inhibiting impact, perhaps more so than for some other people. The decline of my mental health was unexpected, concerning and rapid. including learning a lot from research papers about stress and mental health.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Ahead of Time To Talk Day (1st February 2024), we take a look at how language and mental health are linked. Language around mental health is, let’s face it, clunky at best. How do we accurately communicate our experience of our body and mind to another human being? Language as power I am a massive language nerd.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Ahead of Time To Talk Day (1st February 2024), we take a look at how language and mental health are linked. Language around mental health is, let’s face it, clunky at best. How do we accurately communicate our experience of our body and mind to another human being? Language as power I am a massive language nerd.

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The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters

Society of Clinical Psychology

It may come as no surprise to patients and therapists to hear that the therapist matters when it comes to the quality of psychotherapy. Findings from psychotherapy outcome research have “caught up” to anecdote and patient and therapist intuition. What Do We Think We Know about Therapist Differences? 2011; 2016).

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How Can Love Affect Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Feeling loved and feeling love for others has a positive effect on mental health and those who feel loved and love others experience fewer depressive symptoms than those who do not. And while relationships are clearly important to mental well-being they do not have to be romantic. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

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Nurse Depression and Anxiety: Stopping the Mental Health Crisis

Relias

They are also exposed to high levels of stress, trauma, and burnout, which can take a toll on their mental health. In this article, we’ll look at what causes elevated levels of nurse depression and anxiety, how nurses can help themselves and each other, and how healthcare leaders can support their nurses’ mental health.