Why does it seem like when it comes to Mental Health, we say we are an Illness? We don’t do that with Physical Illnesses. For example, we will say things like ‘I AM depressed’, or ‘I AM anxious’, or ‘I AM Bipolar’. When talking about others we say things like ‘You ARE depressed’, or ‘You […]
Category: Mental Health
What Is Mental Health?
On the surface this question may appear to be pretty straight forward although growing up in the 80’s and 90’s I can honestly say that I had no idea what Mental Health really was. After all no one really talked about it much. Whenever I heard the term Mental Health, I immediately equated it to […]
Life is NOT a Journey
It seems, at least to me, that we have been programmed to believe that life is some kind of journey. A journey that leads to some great destination, to some kind of great ‘success’. At an early age we enter school and kindergarten. This is great because we are now on that great path of […]
Life Is Like A Bag Of Nuts!
I came upon this thought the other day as I was downing a tasty bag of salty pistachios. These are the nuts in the hard shell that are slightly open where you have to finish cracking them in order to get your prize! As I was mowing through the bag, I got to that one […]
The Mental Health Crisis
The World as we know it is under a Major Health Crisis… Give me a few moments of your time and your full attention and let me share some data with you that I have complied that is both really eye opening and is very disturbing. First off, I’m not talking about the recent Global […]