So You Did the Ice Bucket Challenge, Now What?
Along with 2.4 million other people, I shared a video of myself doing the ALS ice bucket challenge on Facebook in the summer of 2014. I excitedly watched ice bu...
Category: Health
5 Ways to Reduce Your Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are normal aspects of life. They are biological safety mechanisms that have been put in place to protect humans from dangers that threaten li...
Should We Try to Prevent PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a debilitating mental illness formed after a painful or terrifying experience. Many different situations can trigger PTSD, but...
Need Another Reason to Exercise? Stress Relief!
In some people, stressful events can be so impactful on a person’s life that their psychological, behavioral, and cognitive responses can be compromised or chan...
Anxiety and College Students: Finding a Balance
Everyone experiences stress at different times in their lives, whether it has to do with school, work, family, or just life in general. Stress isn’t always a ba...
How Stressful Memories Contribute to Anxiety
Think back to your most vivid memory. I would guess you can remember just about every detail about that situation. What time of day it was, where you were, what...
School Test = Bear Attack
We are living in a higher state of anxiety than we were biologically made for. Our brains were made for us to remember stressful situations that would help us t...
Locking Away Mental Illness
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law a landmark piece of legislation titled the Community Mental Health Act (CMHA). Its purpose was to redirect fu...
Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Schizophrenia
Up until recently, my knowledge of the psychiatric disease, schizophrenia, was pretty limited, and I think many others can relate. All I really knew was ...
Stopping the Stigma of Schizophrenia
How common is schizophrenia and what are some of the symptoms? Schizophrenia is mental disorder that occurs throughout the world. It is estimated that about 1%...