Valentine's Day is around the corner and I'm already super depressed. I am single and have been valentine-less for four years now. I just want to crawl under the covers and pretend like this day doesn't exist. I'm a total romantic at heart and I don't know how to not get down around this holiday, […]
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Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors DJ Jaffe Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org Americans are united around the reasonable and limited proposition, that people with serious mental illnesses should not own guns. But one group takes umbrage: mental health advocates. In the wake of incidents such as […]
Hello Members! LGJ and I are announcing the Moderator of the Month of March. April came in like a like a Lion as well, even, yes..even in Florida! We should be getting a thaw this coming week though. She is consistently an extremely adorably dedicated and hard worker, especially after her […]
How Retailers Light Up Our Brains Like Those Sparkly Holiday Luxe Displays by Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D. Published on November 22, 2011 by Melanie A. Greenberg, Ph.D. in The Mindful Self-Express Where would a young girl be without Juicy? 'Tis that time of year again. The smell of pumpkin, […]
Blogger Guidelines DepressionForums.org is a website that supports a Depression, Mental Health Community Support Group. Our members share peer-to-peer for depression, anxiety, mood disorders, medications, therapy and recovery. DF as it is well known, has over 70,000 members on our website alone. We have been on the web since […]
These 5 tips can help kids cope with school stress and homework pressure — and ease school anxiety for kids of all ages. When it comes to school stress, Hannah O’Brien has seen some extremes.The 17-year-old junior at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California, has witnessed students crying in class after getting […]
Once you get past the poverty line, say experts, our levels of happiness and contentment have very little to do with how much we earn. BY SHARON KIRKEY, POSTMEDIA NEWSJULY 8, 2012 3:01 PM Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment […]
By Toni Bernhard, J.D.Created Apr 26 2011 – 7:59am We’d like to be forever free from physical discomfort, but we’re in bodies and they get injured, sick, and old. The good news is that the Buddha prescribed some medicine—mindfulness—to help ease that physical discomfort. Mindfulness is not a miracle pill, but it is a miracle practice, meaning that, over time, […]
MAY, 29 2012 Although your neighbor appears on the outside to be living a “normal” life, and your child is breaking sports records left and right, the people around you might very well be suffering inside from depression. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 9.5 percent or 20.9 […]
We all know that college grads are “confronting the worst job market in decades,” as The New York Times’ Steven Greenhouse writes. There is no question that this is a distressing state of affairs. Yet I’m afraid I don’t see this in a totally negative light. Although I acknowledge that it is […]
