Fortunately, people are slowly starting to realize that mental health is an important, and necessary, topic of conversation.
There is a growing effort to help people become better informed about various mental health related subjects, and articles about anxiety and depression are easily found in most mainstream news sources.
Here are seven things you should know about mentally “getting better.”
Read More“The Road Less Traveled” is a poem about choosing a path. On the surface, our author ponders and then chooses a path in the woods on which to walk. One path has been trekked upon by many a wanderer; the grass has been tamped down, the ground evened by traffic. In a word, safe, even comfortable. The other path “was grassy and wanted wear” or untouched; long grass and knotty tree roots so rudely taking up real estate. Potentially dangerous for an incautious, hasty surveyor.
Our subtext here is (just one interpretation anyway) there is a decision to be made; a literal crossroads. What we often face in making any decision is that there are multiple avenues.
Read MoreI’ve heard about stories of people “paying it forward” in terms of buying coffee for others or paying for the meal of the car behind them in a drive-thru, but it had never happened to me; until today.
I told her repeatedly that she “didn’t have to do that,” but she insisted and then there was the moment where we were both standing there and I was trying to decide; do I have a conversation with her? What do we talk about? Am I supposed to buy coffee for someone else? I just didn’t know what the protocol was for these kinds of situations.
Charity. Being nice. Helping out others. These are things which should be engrained in our lives and society, but often they are not.
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