If you have a learning disability, school can be a tremendous source of stress. A learning disability, not to be confused with a learning problem, which can involve visual, motor, hearing handicaps, intellectual disability, or emotional disturbance, but is instead a neurological processing problem, which can interfere with skills such as math, writing, or reading. Not only is it harder to keep your grades up, but it can be socially awkward when other people notice your struggles....

In college, I was on track to be super successful super early…or so I thought. I piled classes on top of classes and took winter session courses even though I didn’t really need to. I thought,“I’ll graduate early!! I’ll beat everyone in my class to getting an amazing full time job! I’m going to move out before all my friends!” So, I graduated a semester early, and honestly, it didn’t get me anywhere....

The Silence Surrounding Pregnancy and Infant Loss In addition, very few healthcare providers that interact with mothers, during or in the wake of their loss, fully address the mental health effects of pregnancy and infant loss. In general, there are few built-in societal support networks for grieving mothers — few places for mothers to turn for guidance and support as they move through the grieving process. Grief Counseling OnlineYou don’t have to wait for help processing your loss....

“Distance makes the heart grow fonder,” “this too shall pass,” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” are pieces of relationship advice you may have heard, implying that whatever tough time you are going through with your partner is temporary. But is that always true? What if the lesson you are meant to take from the experience is that you and your partner are not as compatible as you thought?...

Updated on 11/15/2020 If you are reading this, you are probably hoping to start therapy with a psychologist, either for the first time, or after some time away. Making the decision to go to therapy takes courage,resilience, and self-awareness, so congratulations on making it to this point! Therapy can help you improve your life in so many different ways. Whether you’re trying to improve your communication skills, work through a specific problem, combat mental health concerns, or just have an unbiased person who you can speak to about anything, seeing a psychologist can help you greatly....

While dealing with grief, often we want to speed through it, get it over with, be done with it — but, according to therapists, it’s best to allow yourself tofeel your feelingsin order to truly heal. You may have heard of the “5 stages of grief,” and while many experience similarly staggered emotions when mourning, no two people, or their experiences, are the same. Not everyone experiences each stage, or each stage in the accustomed order....

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As time passed, I kept squeezing more and more into my hiding spot thinking that I could be next. Despite the news and confirmation of what was happening, I could not wrap my mind around the reality. As the story kept updating, the number of casualties went up and up. I couldn’t fathom that my friends were getting shot, that there were videos of bodies on the floor flooding social media....

https://www.talkspace.com/online-therapy/October 10th is the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Day and all week long is recognized as Mental Illness Awareness Week. Geared toward raising awareness and improving access to mental health care, this day reminds us of the importance of mental health in our daily lives. Unfortunately, many of us don’t think about taking care of mental health until there’s a problem. Why Monitor Mental Health? As it turns out — just like physical health — waiting until an issue arises is not always the best way to ensure your well-being....

Many of us grew up with parents who battled mental illness, whether we realized it during childhood or not.Anxietyanddepressionare common mental illnesses our parents may have struggled with, which are often passed from one generation to the next. Your parent may also have dealt withbipolar disorder,schizophrenia, oraddiction— all of which have a strong genetic link. Maybe your parent or parents treated their mental illness and were able to live a healthy life while modeling healthy coping skills....

This post,Donate Your Health Care Data Today, was originally published as an opinion piece in The New York Times’ ‘The Privacy Project’ on October 2nd, 2019. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably become increasingly concerned about your data, and for good reason: It seems that every day, we wake up to news about a newdata breachor privacy violation, encouraging collective paranoia to travel widely and well. This fear is perhaps most justified when it comes to matters as intimate as our health — there is something haunting about the image of an attacker with unauthorized access to our treatment records, medication protocol and comprehensive electronic health records....

Yourparentsare, more likely than not, the first people you ever interact with in your life. They set your standard for everything — ranging from what values you develop to what your interests are — especially, what your relationships with others look like (both romantically andplatonically). 4 Affects Your Parents’ Relationship Has On You The “nature versus nurture” debate weighs how much of your personality and behavior came from your genes against how much came from how you were raised....

On a bright and crisp Saturday morning last October, Liam Oberman* went to the emergency room. He wrung his hands as he waited to be seen, and when asked why he was there, he said, “I’ve been thinking about suicide.” He was whisked into a back room, where his clothes, shoes, and belt were confiscated. Later that day, he voluntarily checked himself into the in-patient psychiatric ward of the hospital, to access medical attention and medication as soon as possible....

Updated on 5/18/2022 Interested in joining us? Psychiatry and prescriptions onlineReceive an evaluation and prescription for mental health medication (if needed) from a psychiatry-trained medical provider.Get started Psychiatry and prescriptions onlineReceive an evaluation and prescription for mental health medication (if needed) from a psychiatry-trained medical provider. Psychiatry and prescriptions online Receive an evaluation and prescription for mental health medication (if needed) from a psychiatry-trained medical provider. “There are some parts of this country, even in 2019, where seeing a psychiatrist is incredibly difficult,” says Dr....

As the holiday season approaches, and plans are made to visit extendedfamily, you may be imagining — and dreading — some of those tough dinner-table discussions that inevitably happen. These days, our country is more divided than ever, and almost all of us have a family member (or 5!) who holds very different beliefs than we do. There is always someone who is going to disagree with us on politics or religion — someone who has radically different ethical standards, or who has many opinionated and unwelcome beliefs about how we spend our money, the life choices that we make, or how we parent our kids....