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This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to add mental resilience to your life. Building mental resilience is important if you want to get tougher and build a shield against all the stress and bad things in the world. It is so easy to give up under high pressure and let go of your dreams and hopes for the future. However, do not despair. There are ways to practice mental resilience and become a stronger person.

Our thoughts eventually become our reality. I learned that experts calculate the average person has about 50,000 thoughts daily. Many people, including pastors, teachers, and law of attraction coaches tell us that our thoughts can become our things. One interesting realm of human philosophy is the notion that your thoughts are not your own, but rather coming from a collective consciousness or outside force in the universe.

Although at first it may seem simple to define what constitutes bullying behavior, it does not always fit the classic stereotype of the older boy beating up his smaller classmate. Bullying is a multifaceted behavior that shifts with the situation, the people involved, the time and place. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention defines bullying as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.

Addiction and mental health is a serious and critical issue in our society. Imagine a city occupied by drug addicts and mentally ill individuals, how do you think such a city can fare? Probably you would agree that such a place is actually building a foundation set on a time bomb. When a person is addicted to a substance which serves a specific purpose and on the long run, the addiction becomes abusive; there is every tendency that such person can become a dangerous member of society.

Pet therapy is a guided interaction between an individual and a trained animal. It also involves the animal's handler. The purpose of pet therapy is to help a patient recover from or cope with a health problem or a mental disorder. Pet therapy is also called animal-assisted therapy. Dogs and cats are the animals most commonly used in pet therapy. However, fish, guinea pigs, horses, and other animals that meet screening criteria can be used.

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.

Many children experience nightmares and night terrors, but most grow out of them. They don't cause any long-term psychological harm to your child. A child having night terrors may scream and thrash around in extreme panic, and may even jump out of bed, and may not recognize you if you try to comfort them. This behavior occurs on waking abruptly from deep, non-dream sleep. Your child won't be fully awake during these episodes and will have no memory of it the next morning.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to cope with people who never know when to be quiet. Some people talk just to hear themselves talk, while others have to explain every detail of their lives. Some people never seem to shut up, no matter if they are monopolizing the conversation or you have a meeting to start. You will no doubt be familiar with these people because they are also the ones who can never let you finish your story before they interrupt you with a similar story that, to them, is even better.

This book contains proven a road map of things to look out for in a relationship. It is perfectly natural to crave love and affection. Serious relationships can add a sense of security and meaning in one's life. Naturally humans seek a partner to share their lives with. Falling in love is a beautiful, magical feeling but many people end up in unhealthy relationships despite signs that their partner was not for them because they are blinded by love.

Overcoming jealousy is like changing any emotional reaction or behavior. It begins with awareness. Awareness allows you to see that the projected stories in your mind are not true. When you have this clarity, you no longer react to the scenarios that your mind imagines. Jealousy and anger are emotional reactions to believing scenarios in your mind that are not true.

Antisocial behavior can be characterized as an overall lack of adherence to the social mores, and standards that allow members of society to coexist peaceably. Many people who display this type of behavior may seem charming, but often cause harm to others, and show little remorse for their actions. Antisocial behavior can be part of a larger conduct disorder, or personality disorder. On the other hand, an asocial individual is someone who keeps to themselves, generally ignoring other people. Just as asexual is without sex, asocial is without socialization.

We've all been there. You've been given 30 days to prepare for a term paper - yet you don't start on the paper until the day before it's due. This is called procrastination. A wise man described procrastination as the "dream killer" because it destroys productivity. Procrastination is described as the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time.

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.

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.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your short-term memory. Mental health matters (MHM) is a very important issue in human history. To make the subject clearer, we must start from the very beginning and origin of why and how mental health matters and is associated with the brain. Having mental stability or mental derailment is something that can determine whether an individual can really fit in to society.

All over the world the aging population increases on a regular basis. The elderly accounts for the populations in the age group from 60 years and above. In most countries, these age groups are either referred to as dependents, those within the retirement age or they are commonly referred to as the aged. Hence, mental health care for the elderly is a topic that needs to be taken seriously.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to let go of the things such as relationship breakups, death of a loved one, and traumatic events that cause you to not reach your goals in life. You will also find these same skills will help you to let go of things and people that are holding you back in all areas of your life. Getting over a traumatic event such as a relationship breakup or the loss of a loved one can be very hard. However, it is not impossible to do. You have no idea how strong you really are.

Does the "ding" of your phone have you dropping whatever you're doing to see who "liked" your latest Facebook status? Are you answering work emails before rubbing the sleep from your eyes? Does a low battery icon leave you quivering in fear? You, my friend, are likely suffering from nomophobia. Nomophobia, as the name suggests, is a fear of not being able to stay connected by mobile all the time.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully and comfortably live with someone with a mental illness in your home. Mental illness is stated as any of the various disorders in which a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself, herself, or other people or any other of the various disorders or diseases characterized by abnormal patterns of thought and behavior. So just talk to the person. You must learn about the illness if the person you care for has been given a diagnosis. This is one of the ways that can help you understand how it affects them and can help you feel more confident caring for them.

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.