Mental Health Advice
Our thoughts on therapy, counselling, mindfulness, and well-being.
Relax: I’m not writing this to make you join hands with your friends and sing “Kumbaya.” I’m writing this because we have a problem: most of us don’t really know what feelings are, or how to deal with them. And that ignorance has a tendency to really fuck up our lives. When it comes to emotional intelligence, ignorance is definitely not bliss, so here are five things everyone should know about feelings.
Trauma. It’s one of those words that gets thrown around without ever really being explained. Derived from the Greek word for “wound,” trauma could refer to an overwhelming psychological experience or the psychological imprint left by such an experience. Either way, it’s important to know how to recognize trauma and post-traumatic stress and how to recover from them.
