Almost two years in an ABC interview, Demi Lovato shared with the world her struggle with an eating disorder and bipolar disorder, leading her to self-harm. She expressed to ABC 20/20 reporter , "I thought, this is the way to deal with what you are feeling," [...] "it was a way of expressing my own shame of myself on my own body, I was matching the inside to the outside and … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Pet Rocks and Other Stress Relievers
Everyone in the world seems to have the remedy to cure stress. Hot tea, soft music, scented candles and so on. I for one happen to prefer coffee over tea and singing harmonies over the sound of a wave maker. That’s not to say that these well-known remedies don’t work—I happen to thoroughly enjoy my after-finals-week bubble baths. But there are some unspoken truths about stress … [Read more...]
“Coping With The Impact of Random Shootings”
In wake of the horrendous tragedy that struck the Sandy hook Elementary School in Nowton, CT, About.com contributor Elizabeth Scott, M.S., offers reasons for why these tragedies affected us all accross the nation and how you can cope: When tragedies like random violence or school shootings occur, it affects many of us very deeply for several reasons: Human Cause: According … [Read more...]
The Power of Affirmations for Anxiety
Many of us want to feel better about ourselves, want to start living a different way, and/or want to just feel comfortable about ourselves. But there are many experiences in life that do the opposite. Maybe during our childhood years, we were told that we weren’t good enough for our parents or were told we were bad kids from our teachers. And these negative statements created … [Read more...]
Talking to your parents—a BRAVE perspective
Anxiety is not something that we can deal with on our own. We all need love and support in order to make it through any difficult time in our lives. Yet it seems that sometimes the closest people to us are the hardest ones to talk about our feelings with. It can take a lot of guts to tell a loved one that perhaps their perspective on your feelings doesn’t exactly fit with … [Read more...]
Depression In The Celebrity World
I was reading one of my favorite magazines, Glamour, when I came across an article that really caught my eye. The title of the article read “Yeah, We’re Depressed. So What?” and it talked about celebrities such as Emma Stone and Amanda Seyfried who were opening up about their mental health to the tabloids. The article was based on interviews with these stars in which they told … [Read more...]