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How to Deal with Loneliness for Better Mental Health

Psychological Health Care

Read on to learn more about loneliness, how it can impact your mental health and strategies to overcome feeling lonely. Behavioural symptoms – decreased motivation, changes in eating habits, and increased substance abuse. Mental health issues. The psychological impact of loneliness is also significant.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

A nervous breakdown, also called mental breakdown, refers to the inability to perform functions of daily life due to intense psychological distress. In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Feeling physically unwell.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

The psychological community often attempts to combat the stigma suffered by the mentally ill by challenging the view that people suffering schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions are physically dangerous. We're often told, for example, that schizophrenic subjects are more likely to suffer than to commit violence.