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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

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? Schizo-affective disorder? I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. he asked me.