#mental health

#mental health

If a post didn't get a like within two minutes, I'd delete it and try again, often asking friends to like it and comment just to keep up with appearances. When I lost a follower, I'd look at an app to see who it was. I was constantly refreshing, hoping to get more than 100 likes in an hour. I drove myself crazy.

Working out is an integral part of my mental health and I truly think it helps me be a more patient mom who's able to handle the squabbles, irrational demands, and complaints that arise when my little boys are home. My husband has an erratic work schedule and we don't have family around to help watch the kids, so I rely on my affordable gym membership ($49 a month) to help me work out three-plus times a week.

Jurors who just convicted a 34-year-old man of bludgeoning and stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper to death inside their home in a gated Newport Beach community will now have to decide whether the defendant was legally insane at the time of the slayings. The sanity phase of Camden Burton Nicholson's special circumstances murder trial began on Thursday, Oct. 23 and will ultimately determine whether Nicholson will spend the rest of his life in state prison,

When I was cast on the TV show "Survivor" in 2023 (yes, that show is still on), I thought I knew what anxiety felt like. I had spent years helping clients understand it, name it, and care for it. I had been in active therapy for around a decade. But living through it in front of millions of people is something no training could have prepared me for.

"You get to that mountaintop that you've always dreamt of," Allen said. "But no one has ever dreamt of what happens after getting to the top."

They often opened their home to extended-stay guests. A friend would be going through a divorce and needed a place for a few weeks while looking for an apartment, or a meditation teacher would be in town from India, bringing us tiny clay buddhas and new dishes at the dinner table. One year, my parents hosted a violinist who was performing at the local symphony for about a month. I remember watching her play violin at the top of our entryway stairs.

There's a lovely intimacy to Every Brilliant Thing at @sohoplace, a play that's as much about the performer as it is about the story. The West End season has seen a star-studded rotating cast including Lenny Henry, Jonny Donahoe, Ambika Mod and Sue Perkins, each bringing their own flavour to Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's one-person tour de force. Minnie Driver closes the run, lighting up the stage with her warmth, humour and natural charm,

During Pastor Appreciation Month, we include our gratitude for the support of the pastor's wife. Spiritual spouses are viewed differently than their faith-leading husbands. Although there are plenty of benefits, both emotional and spiritual, of serving within the leadership of a faith community, there are challenges as well. A pastor's wife is expected to be kind, compassionate, sympathetic, supportive, patient, gracious, long-suffering, and the list goes on. She is required to be, in a word: perfect. Yet this unrealistic expectation can be tempered through realistic strategies of coping and support.

Remember working during COVID? While healthcare workers, first responders, and restaurant employees still had to show up in person, many others suddenly found themselves working from home, logging into Zoom meetings in pajama pants. For some, the isolation was tough. Others loved more time with family, the freedom to work from anywhere, and not having long commutes. Some people even traded expensive city apartments for more affordable homes or resort-style locations.

One of my neighbours who has lived here for 40 years said he has never seen anything like it,

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I'm weird. I can be more open in some ways with audiences than I can in interpersonal relationships. Look, I've lived and learned over time. I've been a toxic person in my life. I'm not great at relationships. I used to do a joke where I think I'm about 85 percent woke and the other 15 percent I keep to myself.

We look at loneliness in the digital world, where everyone is connected but no one is connecting. From rising suicide levels to surveys showing how Gen Z is the loneliest generation ever, we look at the reasons behind this global sentiment. We ask: Is the digital world helping or hurting our ability to truly connect? What happened to communities that support their members? Presenter: Stefanie Dekker Guests: Larissa May Founder, #HALFTHESTORY Tracey Mark Psychiatrist and author

Ever get caught in a negative thought spiral? It can happen after a minor inconvenience or misunderstanding, like when you forget to buy oat milk or your friend doesn't immediately text back. Instead of laughing it off, your brain overthinks it - I suck at everything, nobody likes me, etc. - and suddenly it feels like the world is ending.

Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we drink. But in recent years, scientists and clinicians started exploring a new question: Could these invisible fragments also be making their way into our brains, and if so, what might that mean for our mental health?

Shildt expanded on his decision in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune's Kevin Acee yesterday, and said that his mental stress with the job was compounded when he received some death threats late in the season. Acee also explored some of the internal criticisms leveled at Shildt by some Padres staffers, including the view that Shildt had a short temper and was too quickly heated over any questions about his decision-making or thought process. With Shildt giving the Padres players a wide berth to police their own clubhouse, Shildt was accused by some of micro-managing and being too harsh with his coaches and other team staff members.

"As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," Altman writes. Earlier this month, OpenAI hinted at allowing developers to create "mature" ChatGPT apps after it implements the "appropriate age verification and controls." OpenAI isn't the only company dipping into erotica, as Elon Musk's xAI previously launched flirty AI companions, which appear as 3D anime models in the Grok app.

I ended up getting quite down because of the difficulties I was encountering, and then I didn't work for a little while; but I'm delighted to say that I am now working again.