I am thinking who you are, how your day looks like, what makes you sad, what makes you laugh loudly, what are your deepest fears. I want to hear more about you. I want to meet you. Have you ever had wish to know someone like this, or maybe you wished that someone else knows …
July is a National awareness month for mental health of the minority. Aim is raising awareness about mental health at people who are LGBTQ, religious minority, people of color, people with disabilities and others. What is mental health? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. …
Life is a period from birth to death and during that time we shape it with personal processes and environment. In addition, we are going through developmental crises (starting school, graduation, marriage, children, getting old) and through life crises. Pandemic is one of the life crises. Traumatic experience when we are facing with new, unknown …
MPS Europe has provided Support rooms for adult MPS patients every Saturday during Covid-19 pandemic. Until now we had more than 10 Support rooms. And I would like to share our experience and show how lockdown, fears and uncertainty can be manageable when we are not alone. What are groups and what is their benefit? …
Coronavirus and mental health Coronavirus (Covid 19) and pandemia are global problems that cause uncertainty, fear, stress and the most likely – panic. This is definitely traumatic event and we all try to find the most suitable ways to deal with unknown and unpredictable situation. Everybody has different reactions to stress and it depends of …
Recommendations for psychological management of the quarantine situation* Given the global situation generated by the CoV-19 coronavirus pandemic and the effects of the declaration of the state of alarm, we would like to share with you a series of recommendations regarding the psychological management of this circumstance. We want to avoid that fear becomes an …
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The struggle with pain makes us more fragile I am sure you have heard so many times in your life, “don’t give up, fight for what you want, fight against pain”. You hear people pushing you, you need to be brave, if you quit, you are weak. Thinking about mechanisms and techniques to avoid pain, …
Can too much of optimism be hurtful? Stay positive, keep pushing, motivational quotes like “always smile, dream, believe, achieve” are phrases that people who suffers from chronic illness hear a lot. Getting these messages from environment mean that we always should feel like that, always be happy, smiling with hope that tomorrow will be better.Chronic …
Let’s communicate How do we talk, how do we listen, do we pay too much attention on the other person and forget ourselves, or we are so much into us, that we don’t see people across us?Usually these are not question that we ask ourselves often, it is more question that is shows up after …
Job search and how to deal with psychological consequences Looking for a job can be draining, frustrating, especially if you are person with disability.There are couple misconceptions that make this process even more demanding. First, we believe that getting job it should be easy and fast. Second, it must there be wrong something with me …
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