Autism and sleep

Living with depression can take a toll on your mental health. Research suggests it can also affect you physically and lead to pain. Depression not only affects your mood but can also impact your physical health. The systems and hormones altered by depression can play a role in many physical responses — the most common is pain.

Schizophrenia affects the brain and can accelerate aging. But with treatment and self-care, it’s possible to keep symptoms at bay. If you or a loved one lives with schizophrenia, you might wonder how the mental health condition will progress over time. Symptoms of schizophrenia typically appear in late adolescence...

Someone with ADHD can sometimes seem rude or disrespectful, but understanding their ADHD symptoms can clarify their intentions. If you have a friend who always seems to interrupt you before you can finish what you’re saying, it can leave you feeling frustrated or disrespected. But if that person is...

Folks with iatrophobia have an extreme fear of medical professionals, doctors, illness, or medical tests. If you’re living with iatrophobia, it can cause issues with your health and trust of doctors, nurses, or medical assistants. It may cause you to delay routine care, vaccinations, and other appointments that could keep you healthy.

Journaling is a helpful strategy to ease your worries and manage your anxiety. You can start and find your rhythm with a few tips and prompts. Journaling is a therapeutic writing technique based on putting your thoughts onto paper. This expressive writing technique can clear your head, boost self-awareness, and ease stress and anxiety.

Defining trauma is tricky, but the DSM-5 can help. Beyond PTSD, a few other disorders can result from distressing experiences, too. Trauma is an ever-expanding topic of our time. It’s commonly used in our collective speech to describe any number of responses to a difficult event, from temporary distress to...

If traveling gives you anxiety, there are ways to help you stay grounded on your journey. As much as I love traveling, my travel anxiety is very real. I had a panic attack on a bus in Los Angeles. I called my mom at 3 a.m. from a dorm room in Paris so I could feel comfort in hearing her voice. I sat on the floor of the Aruba International Airport convinced I was dying from back pain.

If your child is afraid of unfamiliar people, they’re not alone. This is a common experience for children. It’s natural for young children to be afraid of strangers. This reaction is an important milestone that helps children learn to trust their instincts and get a sense of their environment.

When OCD itself becomes the theme behind your OCD symptoms, you may be experiencing what some people call “meta” OCD. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can present challenges related to persistent, intrusive thoughts known as obsessions. These obsessions often require ritual habits — compulsions — to alleviate them.

Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Inas Younis was born in Mosul, Iraq, and emigrated to the United States as a child. She is a writer and commentator who has been widely published […] The post We must build a better path through a culture that damages Kansas teens’ mental health appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

Using mindfulness to benefit your mental well-being doesn’t have to be hard if you practice, avoid pressuring yourself, and find a style that works for you. Between hectic work schedules, gloomy newsreels, daily chores, and making time for friends and family, there’s plenty of stress to go around. Anyone can benefit from simple strategies to cope with some of the pressure.