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Art has been used as a means of communication, self-expression, group interaction, diagnosis, and conflict resolution throughout history. For thousands of years, cultures and religions around the world have incorporated the use of carved idols and charms, as well as sacred paintings and symbols, in the healing process. The establishment of art therapy as a unique and publicly accepted therapeutic approach only took place recently, in the mid-20th century.

You're about to discover the difference between night terrors and nightmares, and what you can do to prevent them. A nightmare is a dream that takes place during REM sleep. But this dream causes intense feelings of fear, invincibility, terror, distress, or extreme anxiety. These feelings usually awake little babies dreaming nightmares, with total or partial remembrance of what they dreamed.

Everyone has something called "a comfort zone". It's only human for us to do whatever we can to stay in our comfort zone, whether that is cleaning up an office, checking email, or an innumerable number of other things. Your comfort zone will hold you back from achieving your true potential. Look at it another way - every moment you spend doing those things that you're comfortable with could be another moment you spend honing the skills that will drive you to success.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to help dissociative trauma survivors avoid self-injury and prevent self-harm. Self -harm is the demonstration of deliberately cutting or ruining one's body which regularly cause scarring or changeless tissue harm. There are a few unique terms which are used to portray self-injury which incorporate self-hurt, self-harmful conduct, self-mutilation, and self-caused viciousness.

In today’s society, it is no new occurrence to be diagnosed with a mental illness. It is, however, disheartening to note that so many people who have such mental health conditions struggle, with each passing day to find comfort in themselves, and achieve a state of emotional stability and acceptance. It is a frightening thought being diagnosed with a mental disorder - but it shouldn’t cause you to lose the essence of who you really are.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to determine the difference between mental illness and dementia in the elderly. Dementia is a syndrome characterized by a progressive deterioration of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, and which results in impairment of normal daily functioning. Cognitive function includes memory, intellect, and orientation, thus a person suffering from dementia would have impairment in these various aspects of "cognition".

This book contains proven steps and strategies to help you tackle binge eating and bulimia nervosa. It will also help you to develop a healthier relationship with food. Just like binge eaters, sufferers of bulimia nervosa go to great lengths to make up for overeating. Prolonged fasting, excessive exercising, self-induced vomiting, and taking unnecessary laxatives are all symptoms of the illness. Bulimia, more specifically known as bulimia nervosa, is an eating disorder that can if not addressed cause serious damage to the body and mind.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to learn to forgive. Anger is a human emotion. It is strongly linked to rage, and all of us have experienced it in some form since we were children. We are taught as children that anger and rage are not okay, and so we learn very early on to hide our anger and our rage. Anger is also linked to fear. It is often a fear response that triggers an angry outburst, and is part of the fight or flight response.

You're about to discover strategies on how to stand up for yourself. It's a great way of thinking, and it is crucial to stand up for you. Yet there are methods for doing this that are really prudent. Ways that will help both you and your relationship. Ways that will keep you from defying the individuals you really need to face. Sincerely telling others what you need, your cravings, and how you feel shows individual pride, fearlessness, and regard.

This book attempts to establish the correlation between the mind and the body, and how each impacts the other; and at the same time provides operational definitions of the words mind and body. The mind represents more than just the thinking faculty of a person, associated usually with thoughts, ideas, and concepts and the ability to process them. Beyond this usual understanding of what constitutes the mind, I propose that the mind transcends one's thoughts.

You're about to discover some of the solutions of experts in the field of cognitive therapy about how to stop worrying. You will also find some of the most widely used, effective methods of controlling your worrying.

This book contains information that will help you to take control of yourself and fight the fear within. Panic attacks are sudden episodes of intense fear or anxiety of a rapid escalation normally present, somatic and cognitive symptoms such as palpitations, sweating, sudden tremor, feeling of choking, chest pain, nausea, and fear of dying or going crazy. Chills or hot flushes accompany panic attacks.

You're about to discover how medication helps the symptoms of mental illness. Often, the side effects are the main reason most people stop taking medication. Some side effects can be temporary, though, and will improve over time as your body adjusts to the medication. Learn why it's important to take your medication and how it'll improve your mental health symptoms.

In this day and age, the number of regular eaters is constantly and significantly decreasing, while more and more people develop eating disorders. Nowadays food is far more accessible and varied than in any past society, but physical activities are much more moderate. These factors often lead to eating habits that favor weight problems. However, despite the overall tendency of gaining weight, cultural society favors the slim and thin.

Mental illnesses in teens are medical conditions that disrupt thinking, feeling more, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion, or income. Mental illnesses are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character, or poor upbringing. Mental illness is an illness, just like a physical illness. It is becoming more and more apparent that mental illness in teens is a real issue that requires immediate attention.

Mental health is perhaps one of the most unfortunate terms to still exist in health and healthcare-related professions today. It still carries a massive and completely unwarranted stigma from days past. If people explain what mental health means by referencing specific types of illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, and alcoholism, then there is a much greater chance that the stigma and stereotype associated with mental health will actually get broken down.

Gambling has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last decade and is an increasingly popular recreational activity. While gambling was once illegal, or viewed as a disreputable activity, social norms have shifted. Gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and its growth is likely to continue. Surveys indicate that the general population favors funding charities, health care and other important initiatives through the funds generated from gambling.

You're about to discover how to recognize the signs of depression in teens and what treatment will help them to combat their symptoms. Depression can cause a person to function at a low level, especially when the person is being affected by psychological depression that can lead to being sad and inactive, having difficulty in thinking, and not being able to concentrate; when the person shows a significant increase or decrease in appetite and spends a lot of time sleeping and feeling hopeless; and sometimes suicidal tendencies are all associated with depression.

You're about to discover how to tell your parents you have a mental illness. Dealing with mental illness can be very difficult, especially for young people. If you suspect you are one of them, you need to ask for help. The people, who are most willing to help you no matter what happens are, of course, your parents.

Suicidal thoughts can quickly lead to tragedies, and you need to know how to help yourself. In order to do something about your thoughts, you should learn how to cope with your hurt, grief, or pain, and overcome it.