Struggling with anxiety and fear for much of my young life, I could never imagine myself being a father. I wondered how I could ever be a good father and whether I’d end up passing down my anxious brain to an innocent little child. The very thought of being responsible for a child was terrifying. […]
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Most of our childhoods were filled with watching lots of Disney films. Lots of innocent, funny Disney films. However, there’s one story that serves as a perfect metaphor for not wanting to grow up, the very thing more and more young people are facing. It’s often referred to as a kind of “not wanting to
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I’ve had bouts of depression throughout my nearly 30 years on this planet. One of the reasons for starting this website was to describe what has helped me, but to also further examine deep subjects like meaning and responsibility. I’ve written previously about overcoming depression and how to survive depression by having a network here,
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Some of us find meditation a bit confusing at first, that’s why it can be helpful to get yourself a guided meditation to follow along to. It’s easy to wonder whether you’re doing it right or wrong when you’re doing it by yourself. One of the easiest ways to use guided meditations is to download
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Why are millennials depressed? Don’t they have it easier than every generation before them? They have smartphones, on-demand TV, Facebook, and cheap fast food. This is the argument that those from previous generations sometimes make. It would seem that millennials (anyone who was born in the mid-eighties) have never had life easier. There is so
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What’s the difference between feeling low, and feeling energised and upbeat? It’s of course down to how you’re thinking, and what you’re thinking about. Suffering from years of anxiety and depression, I wanted to put together a list of positive thinking techniques that help to pull me out of negative thinking patterns that I think
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One thing that I have been delving into deeper lately is the idea of Buddhism for depression and anxiety. More specifically – how it can help with modern day mental health. Even for low mood, I’m interested in how we can take Buddhist philosophy and use it to be at peace with anxiety and depression.
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How do you accept anxiety and move on with your life? Accepting anxiety as part of life is tough, likely because it might have been something that has caused you pain for a long time in your life. If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent most of your life battling against anxiety with antidepressants, doctor visits,
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Recently I’ve been feeling very low, and very lost. It feels like everytime I’m nearly a new decade of life, I suddenly go into a state of confusion and find myself asking what the point is to it all. I mean the ‘whys’ just don’t seem to stop. I found myself feeling very low,
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Have you ever been so anxious and worried about something that you simply can’t switch off when you lie down in bed? You toss and turn as you can’t stop thinking about what happened earlier. I’ve been in this situation all too often. When the quiet of night comes, it’s easy for worrying thoughts
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