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An Apple (computer) For the Teacher: Navigating Homeschool, While Keeping Your Social Distance and Sanity

…be more intentional include: Accepting that everything is not fine: You’re experiencing a normal human reaction if you feel unsure of what to do, frustrated, anxious, worried, fearful, ashamed, guilty, or depressed. Speaking of feelings, we’re all at a LOSS right now. We’ve LOST lives, jobs, milestone events, and the ability to live life as we typically know it. Our movements are restricted. And there is sooo much that is cancelled. If you’re huma…

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10 Ways to Fight Loneliness While Sheltering at Home

…nd connectedness. 6. Keep a gratitude journal – One feeling many of us are experiencing at peak levels is gratitude. We are deeply aware of the value of people, places, and interactions that we recently took for granted. Keeping a daily journal, in which we express appreciation, helps keep us tied to what matters to us and focused on the positive and rewarding aspects of our day. 7. Stay present – In the face of unprecedented levels of uncertainty…

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Why It’s Okay to Feel Bad About Certain Things

…pist’s response to his request for medication to alleviate the pain he was experiencing. The therapist’s reply was, “There are some things you should feel bad about, and this is one of them.” Patients often ask me for methods to get over, away from, or around the pain they feel when they have mistreated someone or themselves. I have become fond of saying the way to deal with feelings is by going through them, not around them. Suppressing and avoid…

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Finding the Balance Between Using Social Media and Improving Your Self-Esteem

Finding the Balance Between Using Social Media and Improving Your Self-Esteem

…ly to have positive social interactions outside of social media, and those experiencing negative interactions suffered a greater amount of negative effects in overall mood, mental health/well-being, and self-esteem. These findings contradict what I believed my whole adolescent life: my lack of self-esteem is from spending too much time on social media. Although there is a line between using social media often and spending an unhealthy amount of ti…

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Survivors: Those Who Have Lost Someone to Suicide

…ken Tree: Families Living With Mental Illness Fatal Mistakes: Families Touched by Suicide (DVD) From AFSP.org – This 45-minute film chronicles the recovery of several families in the aftermath of suicide. These “survivors” share their common experience with the hope that they will comfort others experiencing similar grief and prevent others from experiencing the pain of losing a loved one to suicide. The film includes interviews with several of Am…

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Suicide in the Media

…themselves that wants to live whenever they’re in crisis. To reach anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts, we should be offering truthful messages of hope and effective resources that can help them get through their crisis, and go on to have a meaningful life, that they value and enjoy. So many of us have been personally impacted by suicide, and seeing and hearing these tragedies portrayed on our screens or streaming through our radios can be trig…

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I Want to Die

…mportant for you to know that the feeling of hopeless you may currently be experiencing is temporary; help is available and there is hope, even though you may not feel that way at the moment. The thought “I want to die,” usually comes up when people are in so much psychological pain that they feel they can no longer bear it. We understand how terrible this pain feels, and we want to help make it tolerable for you. This pain is often made worse by…

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Is Cynicism Ruining Your Life?

…iggering our cynical reactions. Are we projecting our self-attacks? Are we experiencing hurt or anger? Have we perhaps slipped into a point of view that is not our own? We can then talk with someone else about our feelings, or we can at least acknowledge what we are feeling to ourselves. We can then maintain our integrity by taking actions that won’t leave us to sabotage our own experience or bubble over with cynicism. To take a different course,…

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Adolescent Mental Health: Creating a Pathway for Healthy Development

…hat can be filled with confusion and ambivalence for both the young person experiencing it and their parents. As parents, caretakers, and counselors, our role is to be there for adolescents, providing a safe, supportive, and secure base from which they can launch into the world. And we can all get better at this pursuit by learning more about what young people are experiencing, what challenges they face, and what ways we can best support them. Thi…

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Eight Ways to Actively Fight Depression

…the symptoms that make it hard to get out of a depressed state. For anyone experiencing this stuckness, it’s important to remember that depression is a very common and highly treatable disorder. By treating it like any other physical disease and taking the actions that will destroy the parasites infecting your mental state, you can conquer your depression. Here are eight steps to doing just that. Fight Depression: Recognize and Conquer Your Critic…

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