Tag: Mental Health

Mental Health On Depression: The First Step is to Acknowledge it

Mental Health On Depression: The First Step is to Acknowledge it

Depression is an illness and needs to be acknowledged as such. It is not a reason to be ashamed. The reason so many people fail to seek help for their depression is that they are ashamed.  Unfortunately, this is one of the feelings associated with depression anyway and makes the illness difficult to acknowledge.  If you are constantly feeling particularly low, well-meaning friends might tell you to “snap out of it” or even start to get irritated by your mood. Your depression will feed off this negativity and you start to wonder why you can’t just “snap out of it”.  You then start to feel that there’s something wrong with you because it should be so easy and it’s just…

Getting Our Minds Around Mental Health & Essential Facts of Bipolar Disorder

Mental Illness: Getting Our Minds Around The Facts A recent survey by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) found that many people know little or almost nothing about the warning signs, causes and effective treatments for mental illnesses-even though in any given year, one in five Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder. Each year, more people suffer from a mental illness than from cancer and diabetes combined. Research shows that mental illnesses are caused by genetic and environmental factors, traumatic events and other physical illnesses and injuries. Yet one-third of Americans mistakenly believe emotional or personal weakness is a major cause of common mental illnesses and almost as many think old age is a major cause. As a result, many…