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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

My therapist and I have found it hugely beneficial for me to draw about an experience or a feeling in my body rather than talk about it. Just because depression or anxiety disorder are more common doesn’t mean the pain and suffering caused to the individual by their condition means less or matters less. Pain is pain.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

My therapist and I have found it hugely beneficial for me to draw about an experience or a feeling in my body rather than talk about it. Just because depression or anxiety disorder are more common doesn’t mean the pain and suffering caused to the individual by their condition means less or matters less. Pain is pain.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I didn't want to attract attention to myself and assumed that a hospital emergency room had bigger problems than a depressed but cooperative patient. Schizophrenia? he asked me.