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Navigating Teen Anxiety
Written By: Destiny Sumani Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, anxiety among teens has become a pervasive concern, with profound implications for their mental health, academic success, and interpersonal relationships. Anxiety is more than just feeling nervous before an exam or social event—it is an overwhelming, persistent fear or worry that can interfere with everyday life.
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The Pressure to Hustle: How You Can Cope With Burnout
Written By: Afya Shaikh Are you juggling school, extracurriculars, and a social life, and still constantly hear that nagging voice telling you to do more? That’s hustle culture talking—the idea that you always need to be “on,” striving for perfection, always grinding. Being ambitious is awesome, but when the pressure to constantly hustle takes over,
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Unmasking Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Silent Mutilator of Mental Health
Author: Anish Javvadi Introduction Would you believe there is such a charming and attractive plant that causes humans to die? Well, if you said no to the answer you are wrong. Indeed, there is such a mesmerizing plant that causes death, it is Aconite. Aconite is a plant that is prevalent in the regions of
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Hopeful Healing
Author: Key Kessens We can free ourselves from the shackles of emotional prisons together. When we avoid our trauma, a cloud of darkness can seem to overtake our thoughts & feelings. The best way to describe these seasons is losing my spark & feeling out of control. Hopelessness is a poisonous feeling. I’ve experienced traumatic
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How to Use Reading as a Tool for Mental Wellbeing and Have Fun Too!
Author: Victoria Blonde In today’s ever-changing world, with social media constantly vying for our attention, it can be easy to lose yourself to endless scrolling, or to get caught up in negative news and personal struggles in life. Anything from academic stress to issues within your family can take a toll on mental health, especially
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Overthinking: Not a Mental Disorder, but a Mental Parasite
Author: Kaushik Setty IntroductionNaegleria fowleri – the brain-eating amoebae. Slowly crawling through the mucous membranes of a human being, these sly parasites invade the brain and consume it till the person’s last breath. We humans fear such parasites, but why be afraid of them when we produce them in our minds? The youth, particularly late
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Behind the Fork: Eating Disorders
Author: Ananya Bhat A McDonalds cheeseburger has 300 calories. One apple has 95 calories. One can of Coca Cola has 140 calories. A cup of Granola is 270. Today, I ate a pancake with berries, soup, a salad with dressing, trail mix, and two slices of pizza, so in total, I ate about 1150 calories.
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Balancing Brain Chemistry: How Essential is Psychopharmacology in Treating Your Mental Health?
Author: Maya Dlima Between 70 to 90 percent of individuals who engage in treatment for mental illness report a significant reduction of symptoms and improved quality of life (1). So why isn’t medicine used as a more frequent treatment option? The field of psychopharmacology, the study of howmedicine can be used to treat various mental
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Embracing Imperfection in Order to Strive Closer to Perfection; the Importance of Learning From your Mental Health Struggles.
Author: Pratyay Bulusu Imagine your weaknesses were more important and valuable than your strengths. Now, I want you to stop imagining, because this is reality. This week’s Mind4Youth article suggests how embracing insecurities and wanting to fail can inherently build better mental health. The honest truth is that it is objectively hard for teenagers to
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Lonely at College? Here are 5 Ways You Can Combat It
Author: Micah Owens When I first arrived at the University of Southern California as a nervous freshman, I was surrounded by thousands of other students, living in a dorm with shared bathrooms and a roommate, and going to classes and events where I sometimes met dozens of new people on adaily basis in the first
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