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 For more info, scan QR code or click the Link below. Uriah Cty, M.A., LMFT, ⁠ https://l8r.it/hvEp (213) 513-5553 #BlackMaleTherapist #AfricanAmericantherapist #Triple5LightTherapy #Latin #Asian #NativeAmerican #White #POC #LGBTAffirmingTherapy#keepmoving #Anxiety #innercritic #innercriticalvoice #anewday 

#Stress #Anxiety  Everyone experiences stress and anxiety from time to time. Most often, stress occurs when you encounter a frustrating situation or are faced with a dilemma. Social pressures, heavy workloads and financial instabilities also cause stress which can reduce productivity, cause health problems or lead to chronic symptoms of anxiety or depression. I sat down with Ayesha Khan, a certified yoga therapist who has spent multiple years coaching people in the healing tradition of classical yoga and meditation. Here’s what she had to say: Stress attacks your hope, willpower and makes you vulnerable. You get annoyed easily and react to petty issues. You may suffer mood swings and your behavior becomes unpredictable. It might seem difficult or impossible to escape from stress, but eventually, you can fight back. Try these simple stress relieving techniques. 1. Exercise Exercise has unlimited benefits for human body and fighting stress is one of them. Research has show...

#MentalHealth #BlackMentalHealth #Stress #Depression #Anxiety #PTSD #Therapy It’s important to stay informed, of course. But experts say digesting too much trauma-related news is linked to a host of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress symptoms. You might be exposing yourself to such news without even realizing it, just by using social media every day. ”[S]ome may log onto social media apps with intentions other than to get news updates but may inadvertently get exposed to news posts from connections,” Jacqueline Sperling, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, tells CNBC Make It. So, how can you effectively manage your mental health while still staying informed? Here are four tips from top experts: Read summaries that don’t involve pictures or videos Audio and video can be very visceral: Seeing or hearing someone else suffering can take a toll on your own psyche. Sperling says news summaries without any pictures or...

  #Anxiety #MentaHealth #Therapy #BlackMaleTherapist #AfricanAmericantherapist #Triple5LightTherapy #ABLM #BLM #Latin #Asian #NativeAmerican #White #POC #LGBTAffirmingTherapy With many surveys showing that   anxiety is at heightened levels ever since the advent of the  COVID-19  pandemic, the struggle to manage  stress  is a common one. In my practice, I am seeing people identify with feeling overwhelmed, pessimistic, and frazzled. These feelings are compounded by a sense of uncertainty about the future, and no clear sense of when our daily lives' disruptions will no longer be so significant.  It's important to understand that stress—and by which I mean the classic definition of the stress response, which is your reaction to a stressor (a trigger)—is multi-faceted. It involves not just your thoughts, but your emotions, your behavior, and your body. When we feel like we are under a chronic stress response, or one that is particularly severe or unrelenti...

#MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #SocialMedia Even Facebook agrees that social media can be  bad for your mental health . And research by the Department of Education has found that the mental well-being of teenage girls in the UK  is worsening , with the impact of social media cited as the cause. Yet  my research  reveals that more people are turning to these platforms for help with their mental health issues. This has been exacerbated as the crisis in the NHS sees  waiting times for appointments  grow. While most of the people I spoke to believed social media helped them, there is a concern that it could be adding to ongoing mental health problems. Mental health has recently become the focus of attention within UK policy, with the proposed  rehash of the Mental Health Act , and the new  Power Threat Meaning framework , which aims to reduce the “medicalization” of mental health. Despite raised awareness of some the issues, more and more...

#DrTraceyMarks #AvoidantPersonality #Rejection #Criticism #Anxiety An essential feature of avoidant personality disorder is a pattern of being socially inhibited, feeling inadequate, and hypersensitive to rejection or criticism starting by early adulthood. This pattern occurs pervasively which means it spreads across all areas of your life. So it’s not something you only noticed after being a bad relationship with someone who sucked your soul and tore you down emotionally. After a relationship like that, you will have some battle wounds that can look like feeling inadequate. Most of the personality disorders including this one really start to manifest around late adolescence and early adulthood. And with an avoidant personality disorder, you can get hints of social awkwardness and insecurity that seem excessive that the child doesn’t seem to grow out of. Here’s the criteria. You need 4 or more of the 7. 1. Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersona...

#Anxiety #DefenseMechanisms We all have thoughts, feelings, impulses and memories that can be difficult to deal with. In some cases, people deal with such feelings by utilizing what are known as defense mechanisms. These defense mechanisms are unconscious psychological responses that protect people from feelings of anxiety, threats to self esteem, and things that they don't want to think about or deal with.1 The term got its start in psychoanalytic therapy, but it has slowly worked its way into the parlance of everyday language. Think of the last time you referred to someone as being "in denial" or accused someone of "rationalizing." Both of these examples refer to a type of defense mechanism. So What Exactly Is a Defense Mechanism? Most notably used by  Sigmund Freud  in his psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism is a tactic developed by the ego to protect against anxiety. 2  Defense mechanisms are thought to safeguard the mind against...