How I Avoid Antidepressants with Daily Mental Affective Meditations

How I Avoid Antidepressants with Daily Mental Affective Meditations In nearly 30 years of mental health exploration, personally and professionally, I've tried many different techniques. Nine years ago, I began a regimen of antidepressant therapy but quit 18 months ago. I've since developed ways to tend to my emotional health without medication. Here's a home-grown technique I call "mental-affective meditations." It employs some 12-step work, cognitive therapy, healing of the inner child and family tree and re-parenting tools. Read on...

How Toxic Shame Grows in Dysfunctional Families

Psychological and Sociological Development of Toxic Shame Behavior
What is toxic shame? Toxic shame is a corrosive, pervasive sense of guilt which the shame-based person has done nothing to merit. Is shame organic or environmental? Toxic shame, like a parasite, grows in an unhealthy environment.
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Emotional Health Help: Toxic Anger vs. Healthy Communication

Emotional Health Help: Toxic Emotions vs. Healthy Anger
Anger is a healthy emotion when we don't try to squash the feeling. Trying remain permanently calm and never show anger often leads to toxic anger. This guide differentiates between healthy and toxic anger.
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Tips for Coping with Negative, Critical People

Staying Emotionally Healthy Around Critical People: Bounce it Back and Don't Personalize
Each person reacts to the pressure of our fast-paced world a little differently. Some people going inside with it and other go out. Constant criticism is a toxic waste by-product of our frenetic lifestyles. Here are ways to stay emotionally healthy.
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