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Exercise Addiction: Balancing the Benefits and Risks for Mental Health

Exercising and physical activity are quite necessary, for a healthy body holds space for a healthy mind. In addition to improving physical fitness, exercise has been proven effective in elevating mood and reducing anxiety and stress levels. However, over-exercising is

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Do you know the Mental Health Benefits of Fasting?

Fasting in layman terms refers to giving up food consumption for a certain interval such as a day or two. Intermittent fasting refers to having a coordination between fasting and normal eating. Further there have been a lot of different

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Strategies for Addressing Body Image Concerns in Bipolar Disorder

Body image, or the picture you have of your physical appearance in your own eyes, is highly personal. For those with bipolar disorder, mood episodes and side effects can magnify body image issues. Bipolar disorder is a mental health illness

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Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD): Symptoms, Treatment and Diagnosis

A skewed sense of self and extreme, erratic emotions are symptoms of histrionic personality disorder (HPD). One definition of histrionic is “dramatic or theatrical”. “Individuals suffering with histrionic personality disorder have an inflated sense of self-worth that is based on

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10 Meditation Techniques Everyone can (and should) Explore

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati This quote represents the core of meditation. What is this core? Well, according to the ancient texts from which meditation was born, it is a practice employed to

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Five Tips to Deal with Turning Points in Life

Life is full of uncertainty and challenges. Time throws various obstacles and disturbs the trajectory of life. As put by Wheaton and Gotlib (2009), the continuation of a direction is called a trajectory. It is the result of all the

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9 Healthy Ways to Channel Anger and Find Inner Peace

Human behaviour is vividly complex and we possess a variety of emotions. A common misconception around emotions is that of perceiving them as either positive or negative. It is important to realise that all kinds of emotions reside in each

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Losing a Soulmate: A Journey of Grief, Loss and Keeping Hope

Grief, the emotional response to the loss of a loved one, is a profound and universal experience. It is a complex and often tumultuous journey through a range of emotions that can deeply affect an individual’s mental health. Let’s uncover

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How Meditation Changes Your Brain

“He who is mentally concentrated, sees things according to reality.” as the great Gautama Buddha has said. In the hustle bustle of daily life, our mind screams a thousand chants and sings a hundred sonnets. It gets difficult to centre

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Helpful Breathing Techniques for Meditation

“Fight or flight” is often referred to as the stress reaction. It is what the body does when it prepares to face or avoid danger. When used correctly, the stress response may help us overcome a variety of obstacles. However,