Debunking Top Myths about Mental Health: Part 1
These are some of the most common myths about mental health and why they are wrong.
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Why Safe and Nurturing Environments Matter for your Child’s Growth
Ensuring that we create safe and nurturing environments for our children is the best thing we can do to encourage healthy growth and development.
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A Deeper Look at Suicide & Mental Health
A Deeper Look at Suicide & Mental Health A primary purpose of Oak Health Foundation is to reduce the incidence of suicide and suicide attempts. And even in September, the national Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, we tend only to scratch the surface of this sometimes sensitive and troubling concern. The subject matter of suicide can
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Negative Thought Patterns: Disqualifying the Positive
Disqualifying the positive means to write off or dismiss one’s own positive characteristics or experiences in their life. In other words, the individual will explain away positive experiences in their life as something that “doesn’t count” or that they just “got lucky.”
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Negative Thought Patterns: Magnification and Minimization
Magnification and minimization are negative, unhealthy thought patterns where an individual magnifies or exaggerates the negative aspects of their life while ignoring or minimizing their own accomplishments, abilities, or positive experiences.
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Distrust: Building trust in relationships and with God
Distrust: Building trust in relationships and with God Distrust: it is an unpleasant feeling that we have all experienced in our lives. How many of us have said out loud in moments of betrayal or feeling disappointed by someone: “trust nobody” or “I will never trust anyone again”? Distrust is sometimes necessary in our lives.
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Guilt and Shame: How to Cope and God’s forgiveness
Guilt and shame are two very powerful emotions that have the potential to affect our lives in both positive and negative ways, as well as how to cope when feelings of guilt and shame are overwhelming you.
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Negative Thought Patterns: “Should” Statements
“Should” statements are negative and unhealthy thinking patterns. Should statements are thoughts that you make to yourself about what you and others “should” or “ought” to do. We all have these “should” statements in our heads. At times, we tell ourselves things like “we should get started early on this project” or “we should do
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Cognitive Distortions: Negative Ways of Looking at the World
Cognitive Distortions are ways of thinking that are irrational, untrue, and ultimately unhealthy to our well-being. They are negative thought patterns that affect our emotions and our subsequent behaviors and are very common in patients that suffer from depression and anxiety disorders.
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Negative Thought Patterns: Mental Filter
Mental filtering occurs when you pick out only a negative aspect of any situation and dwell on only this negative aspect while filtering out all the positive aspects. When someone falls into the trap of mental filtering, they cannot see the big picture and can only focus on the negative details. Because more often than not they are not aware that mental filtering is happening, they conclude that the entire situation is negative.
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