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Simple Nasal Breathing to Manage Stress
Do you often breathe with your mouth? Are you regularly stressed? If that sounds like you, you may benefit from a simple, nasal breathing technique. It’s estimated that 80% of people have suboptimal breathing patterns, which worsens stress, impairs sleep, and reduces energy levels. In this brief article, you will learn what suboptimal…
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Tips for Building Meditation Into Your Life
Meditation is a powerful practice. The many benefits include improved focus, increased self-awareness, reduced anxiety, improved stress management skills, and improved sleep, to name a few. But there’s a catch. In order to receive these benefits, you need to meditate consistently. This is not a magical technique that will fix all of your problems after…
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Overcoming the Self-Stigma of Mental Illness
Imagine living with a mental health condition and feeling like you have to hide it from the world because of the stigma and discrimination that surrounds it. This is the reality for millions of people around the world who struggle with mental health challenges. The stigma of mental health can cause you to feel like…
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Understanding Panic Attacks And Panic Disorder
Have you ever experienced a sudden surge of overwhelming fear or anxiety that feels like it’s taking over your body? Perhaps you have felt your heart rate increase, your palms become sweaty, and your breath becomes shallow and quick, all without a discernible cause. If so, it is possible that you have undergone a panic…
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Break Free From Worry
Picture yourself trapped in a dark, endless tunnel of worry and fear, unable to find your way out. Every step forward is met with fresh anxieties and doubts, and every step backward is met with regrets and recriminations. You feel as if you’re caught in a vicious cycle, unable to escape the grip of worry…
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A Guide to Reducing Screen Time
Screen time is the time spent using a device with a screen, such as a smartphone, computer, television, or video game console. Prior to the pandemic, the average screen time for adults in the United States was 11 hours per day.1 However, since the lockdown, this number has increased to 19 hours per day, and…
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What Is an Anxiety Disorder?
Everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life. But anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. A little bit of worry every now and then can be helpful. For example, it can help you get ready for a presentation at work or finish a school assignment. Even good things, like…
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How to Treat Anxiety
There are many different approaches to treating anxiety, including medical treatments, psychological therapies, and self-help (e.g., complementary and alternative therapies or lifestyle approaches). However, when a treatment is shown to work scientifically, this does not mean it will work equally well for every person. The best strategy is to try an approach that works for…
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Five Signs That You Should Get Help With Anxiety
According to The National Institute of Mental Health, some anxiety sufferers may be in denial of how detrimental their anxiety has become. And still, others may not understand that there is help and treatment out there for their anxiety-related issues. The five signs •When your anxiety is affecting your physical health. There is no doubt…
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How to Support a Partner With a Mental Illness
All romantic relationships go through ups and downs; they all take work, commitment, and a willingness to adapt and change. But what if you have the extra challenge of being the partner of someone with a mental illness? It’s hard to understand what someone with a mental illness needs. And you might not know how…