Currently understood as a complex mental health issue, BPD is a label given to those who have extreme difficulty in emotional self-regulation. Oftentimes people who have this diagnosis experience little to no impulse control and have a great capacity to feel empty. They also tend to have an intense fear of abandonment or instability, leaving […]
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I Hate Being Bipolar, It’s Awesome Conflicting right? Bipolar disorder is considered a mental illness in which an individual’s brain has dysfunction in intracellular cascades leaving them prone to extreme mood swings; highs (mania) and lows (depression). More often than not they can experience bipolar regret, a constant sensation that occurs every time the individual
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Nearly 25% of Canadian adults showed signs of depression, anxiety, or PTSD in 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health conditions spiked globally, and Canada was no exception. Living with depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions is taxing and affects your quality of life. Maybe you have a teenager or adolescent also going through
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What is the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)? The main goal of TRM is to bring balance back to the mind and the body after traumatic experiences. When someone experiences challenges that cause dysregulation in the autonomic nervous system every day, sometimes instead of coming back into balance, the nervous system gets stuck in gear 4.
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