Mental Health Topics

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** To the Bone is a Netflix original movie about a young woman named Ellen who has a severe case of anorexia. After showing no signs of improvement or even the simple desire to get better, Ellen is sent home from a variety of inpatient treatment practices and programs….

The Centrifuge Brain Project is a German short mockumentary fantasy film written and directed by Till Nowak. The film uses incredibly bizarre computer-generated imagery to create seven fictional amusement park rides used in a faux documentary film about the construction of physics-defying rides intended for use in research efforts to…

Existential dread, anxiety, or anguish is a term that is synonymous among existentialist thinkers. While it is commonly thought to be a feeling arising from the experience of human freedom and responsibility, it can also lead to depressive feelings and thoughts. YouTube channel Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshel explores how our brains…

Communicating Without Uttering a Word We may view the primary form of communication as speaking with one another verbally, but we speak almost just as often and effectively through nonverbal communication: body language. The way we hunch over in our chairs, and the way we shrug our shoulders or roll…

Meredith and six of her fellow doctors board a plane—one of many in their lifetimes—in a hurry, each with their own distractions and busy minds. Suddenly the plane starts shaking uncontrollably and their attentions are reverted; within minutes, the plane has fallen out of the sky and they’re scattered among…

The television screens in America’s living rooms are getting bigger, and the picture is getting clearer than ever with high-definition. Are we letting a giant monster move into our houses and take over? Are we becoming lethargic and overweight by sitting around watching our favorite series week after week? Are…

The world we live in is full of pain and suffering: the children who grow up with uninvolved or inexistent parents; the men and women who leave their families to fight for their country and never return; the women who are abused by boyfriends and rapists; the homeless that rest…

Almost everyone deals with anxiety in some form or another, so it’s always comforting to know that you’re never alone when it comes to feeling over-anxious or worried. Even if you’re Captain America. Actor Chris Evans gives an amazing and intimate interview about his Boston upbringing, the challenging decision he…

NFL training camps officially kicked off last week and even though the official start of the 2017-18 NFL season is five weeks away, most fantasy football fanatics have already started their “mental training camp” as they gear up for another fantasy football season. There is no such thing as too…

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), categorizes trichotillomania as an obsessive-compulsive or related disorder. Someone who suffers with the disorder pulls out their hair on a consistent basis, whether it be hair from the scalp, eyebrows, or any other region of their body. The individual…

The Definition of Love While it can be defined and explained differently depending on the person you ask, Merriam-Webster dictionary says that love can have a few meanings: “strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion; unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for…

What is my purpose? Is this what I want? What about what I need? Who am I? Do you ever find yourself pondering these questions or ones of the like? Many of us do and will throughout our lifetimes—it’s natural. We wonder about our purpose, what exactly we’re meant to…