You run a household together beautifully, and somewhere along the way the conversations narrowed to logistics. Here's why this happens in midlife marriages, and small ways to find your way back to each other.
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Helping a friend cope with trauma requires sensitivity and dedication. Learn how to offer unwavering support by listening actively, validating their emotions, and providing practical help. By understanding the effects of trauma and being patient with their healing process, you can be a vital source of comfort and stability. Your supportive actions can aid in reducing their feelings of isolation and help them find a path toward recovery.
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Suicide awareness and prevention among college students is a pressing concern, with suicide being a significant cause of mortality among young adults. Understanding the prevalence and causes of suicide, including gender disparities, is crucial, as it often stems from academic pressures, social isolation, and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and eating disorders. Recognizing the intricate link between mental health conditions and suicidal thoughts is key to effective prevention efforts. To support struggling individuals, fostering open communication, recognizing warning signs, encouraging professional help-seeking, maintaining social connections, limiting access to lethal means, and promoting self-care are vital strategies. By implementing these approaches and creating a supportive community, we can work together to break the silence around this critical issue, provide hope, and save lives among college students.
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Failures and mistakes can weigh on our minds a lot. We can get stuck on these and they prevent us from moving forward. The first step is knowing why we need to let go, and how to let go. Remind yourself that failure is just learning what didn’t work and that you don’t deserve to be punished for mistakes you wouldn’t make now. Letting go requires practicing self-compassion, mindfulness, and thought disputations.
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Do you know someone with depression? Perhaps a friend, colleague, or family member? Or is it that you’re thinking, “Something’s not quite right. Could it be depression? Should I say or do something? What can I do?”
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I found this article published in 2019, quite recent, I must say, where Gurbuz and his team investigated and reported the social and academic experiences of autistic university students in the UK. What I’d like to know is whether these findings resonate with you, that is graduates or current college students with autism. By resonate, I mean, do you have similar experiences? Do you agree with the findings? Do the findings make sense to you?
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