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The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress

MQ Mental Health

For me, I realised in my ongoing journey of mental health recovery, that the days I didn’t create were the days I felt disconnected and more likely to experience intrusive thoughts or unhealthy coping strategies. Creativity can be seen by some, perhaps in past decades, as frivolous.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down? For example, when study subjects endorsed a brain (as opposed to environmental) cause for schizophrenia, they rated an affected individual as more likely to be dangerous and less likely to recover (Kvaale, Gottdiener, & Haslam, 2013).

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizophrenia? My night-time agonies were retreating and I could feel a tendency towards recovery. So, what the hell am I doing here?” I wondered. Yes,” she said.