Riding the Highs and Lows: A Guide to Living Well with Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects a person’s mood, energy, activity levels, and ability to function. It is characterized by extreme mood swings, from emotional highs (mania or hypomania) to...
Understanding Depression: A Guide to Recognizing, Managing, and Overcoming It Depression is more than just feeling sad or having a bad day. It is a common but serious mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, feels, and handles daily activities. If you or someone...
Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Symptoms, Daily Impact, and Proven Coping Strategies Ever felt your heart race for no reason, or like your thoughts just won’t stop? You’re not alone. Millions of people silently battle anxiety and panic every day—at work, in social settings, even at home....
Destigmatizing Mental Health by Being Mindful with Our Words “Ano ba ‘yan, hindi pantay, na-o-OC ako.” “Nakakadepress naman, break na si Selena at Justin. “Tag mo yung girlfriend mo na Bipolar.” “Ay, adik ‘yan eh.” Have you heard these phrases before? Have you seen social media posts wherein the mental...
FIVE SIMPLE WAYS ON HOW TO MANAGE STRESS Stress has been living with us in our everyday lives most especially, distress or negative stress which affects our thoughts, behavior, intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship, functionality in work or school, and many more. But what makes us...
Breaking the Misconceptions About Stress - Introduction to Eustress and Distress Upon hearing the word stress, most people would associate this with something negative, something unpleasant, or some unwanted experience. Stress has always been mistreated by individuals, not knowing that it is also something that gives us...
Staying at Home Still?! Given the unexpected occurrence of COVID-19, many countries have been required to quarantine at their own homes to avoid the spread of the virus. In other countries, more than a year has passed since community quarantine was announced, and has not been...
How Therapy Can Help Reduce Anxiety When we or a loved one feels anxious, we overthink and feel overwhelmed about the situation. We sometimes tell ourselves to “Just stop thinking about it”, wishing that statement could make our thoughts and feelings of anxiety vanish. But we...
The Value of Empathy and How to Practice it When people are distressed, they experience a state of emotional anguish because of several stressors and demands in their life that they find struggle coping with (Arvidsdotter et al., 2015). In order to help emotionally distressed people,...