Look Around, Look Within: Your surroundings say a lot about your mental health. This Mental Health Awareness Month, challenge yourself to look at your world and how different factors can affect your mental health.
According to the Sleep Foundation, there is a bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health. Each affects the other. Improving your sleep will likely have a beneficial impact on your mental health.
March is Social Work Month. Appleseed Community Mental Health Center is helping celebrate this year’s Social Work Month with the theme “Social Work Breaks Barriers,” to highlight how social workers have enriched our society by empowering people and communities to overcome hurdles that prevent them from living life to the fullest.
March 3 is the National Day of Unplugging. It is a 24 hour period from sundown today to sundown tomorrow, to carve out time to unplug, relax, reflect, be active, visit the outdoors, and connect with loved ones.
March 2 is world-teen-mental-wellness-day. The Hollister company founded this day is 2020 to raise awareness of adolescent mental health issues. Surveys and research studies indicate that Teens and college students are more anxious now than they have ever been. Fortunately, depression and anxiety are things that we can tackle.
The first day of March is also self-injury awareness day. People who engage in self-injurious behavior are experiencing emotional distress. The American Psychological Association reports that 15% of college students, 17% of teens self-harm while 5% of adults may do so over their lifetime.
Today begins Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Eating disorders are complex issues that cause people to have excessive fear and anxiety about eating, body image, and weight. Three of the most identified eating disorders are binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa.
Being stalked by another human being is a frightening and traumatic experience. Stalking victims suffer higher rates of depression--anxiety-insomnia-and-relationship issues.
Today we remember the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many things he said over the course of his life can help us all live more fulfilling and resilient lives.