Avoidance: Toxic Family And Protecting Your Wellbeing
Reading Time: 5 minutesInsights into toxic families, their behaviours, and how avoidance of your family can be the best solution to protect your mental wellbeing
General
Welcome to the general category archive. Here you’ll find all the articles that have been indexed as general.
As the name suggests, this archive contains pretty much single article published. Here you’ll find everything from psychology, invisible disabilities, learning difficulties, health, and mental health.
Positive Psychology Interventions: My Surprising And Random Encounters
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy encounters with positive psychology interventions, which surprisingly, never happened when I was receiving treatment for my mental health
Gratitude Letter: An Easy Example Of Positive Psychology
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are a number of positive psychology interventions you could use, with the gratitude letter one being one of the easiest
Positive Psychology: The Theory And Its Interventions
Reading Time: 15 minutesAn in-depth look at positive psychology and its usefulness for helping people suffering from mental health and substance abuse problems
A Weekend With My Mum: A Disgusting Society’s Ableism
Reading Time: 4 minutesI discuss my mum’s weekend visit, disability/cancer, and how society isn’t always kind to those who are disabled due to what they see as “special” treatment
Let The Battle Begin: My Weekend With My Mum
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe surprisingly less traumatic weekend experience I spent with my mum when she came down to visit me and my partner’s parents
Insomnia: How Trauma Can Ruin A Good Nights Sleep
Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter being inspired by an insomnia meme, I discuss the traumatic thoughts of my past that use to cause my insomnia and how I overcame it
Mindfulness And Its Downsides: Anxiety Disorders Vs Mindfulness
Reading Time: 4 minutesMindfulness is the new trend at the moment, but it’s not all good. Mindfulness-based meditation isn’t suited for all types of anxiety disorders
How Being Diagnosed With Dyslexia Changed My Life
Reading Time: 9 minutesHow finally being diagnosed with dyslexia later in life explained so many of the problems I’d had with education over the years
The Blues: Post “Making Plans” Depression
Reading Time: 4 minutesFeeling the blues from time to time is quite common and it can often happen without a known cause, so what can you do to manage those blues?