Ariel G.
I’m a teacher and I like learning new things, music, reading, biking, nature, not exactly social, but I like sharing with my close family and friends.
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Thank you so much, great tips and places to contact if required.
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Practicing kindness towards myself it is a magical experience and very liberating when looking to others as well, that at the same time feels absolutely natural. I have taken notes and downloaded audios and scripts from the three weeks and activities, my intention it is to enhance my understanding and connection with self-compassion in a mindful way by using...
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Very interesting exercise, that leads you to put your mind into appreciating little acts but meaningful for you along the day or either thinking again about them, and providing meaning.
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Very nice and relaxing this Loving Kindness Meditation, carrying a great message of acceptance and kindness., Thank you.
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Wonderful exercise, very meaningful I think sometimes necessary starting with you first and then go to others.
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I like the definition stated by Kristin Neff in her research and the presence of 3 elements in self compassion and wonderful guidance by Dr Dorothy Armstrong to get deeper into them.
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Absolutely right we really need to remain quiet and paid fully attention to the person in need talking. This of course requires to have develop the ability to focus and paid attention in full, because it is a matter of being involved in the conversation with real interest and compassion.
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A beautiful poem and metaphor that speaks about acceptance and forgiveness and by doing this find our truly way.
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A good exercise that requires practice to internalize it
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Great, simple and powerful exercise to be more aware and connected to yourself.
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I'm looking forward to starting week 3 then!!
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It sounds excellent!!, thank you!!
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Great resources and information to look for!!
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Thank you for all these tips and concern when help is required or who to call finally.
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Instinctively, I find helpful to switch negative thoughts into start thinking about positive ones, or when feeling overwhelmed to change my focus and start thinking about my breath or the soles of the feet in contact with the ground in other words giving you a moment to stop and think about yourself and disconnect from the pressure or the circumstances...
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As in the previous exercise very practical and providing an important sense of grounding and putting you in contact with what is essential and renewing your energy. Of course, the optimum results happen internalizing this practice.
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Great, powerful and relaxing exercise, of course with time and practice it is possible to master it, but even now it feels very beneficial.
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I think that these are very effective techniques and that at a certain moment can represent helping you cope with stressful and overwhelming situations.
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I would like to share that I do not work in the health area and that I am an English teacher, I work especially teaching adults and young adults. I am 69 now and many things I would have reacted differently in the past, now I take them calmier. What I also want to say it is that difficulties and complicated situations are part of life and I would even add...
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Very practical and simple exercise to do, but in a difficult moment this is very powerful.
Thank you for your honesty, sharing your feelings and tips being in the middle of a difficult situation. -
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Excellent description and recommendations in a very practical and sensitive way,
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I hope I can learn and train my brain to identify and react before experiencing overwhelm or distress and then be able to use techniques to take control of my emotions in order to prevent hijacking from occurring.
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Sounds great, helpful and benefitial!!
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Thank you so much again indeed, for this wonderful week, full of great insight and practice. Looking forward for week two then.
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Thank you so much for sharing this material!
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Good to know that these possibilities exist.
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Undeniably that the day to day brings stressful moments to all of us, so, concepts, like ‘amygdala hijacking’, ‘being mode’, or the ‘window of tolerance’, are very helpful to remember, associate and recognize them as processes involved in our day and that is possible to use techniques to help reduce them. I will try to incorporate them as a combination like...
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I think that the most relevant idea to me is trying to reduce stress when you feel overwhelmed and try to put into practice some of the proposed exercises and incorporate them as a daily practice.
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Great, thank you so much!!
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Wonderful resource to explore and put into practice., thank you!!
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I love this exercise Gratitude Diary; I like the Rythm it has and the harmony it carries. Thanks!!
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I have really enjoyed a very well explained idea that was delivered in a great way by Dr Dorothy Armstrong.
I absolutely agree that when we internalize self-compassion in our life and respond to difficult emotions such as fear, anger, worry and grief we can dramatically reduce their undesired effect so as expressed in the text, once we can recognise and...
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Of course it has Dr Nimmo, all four areas represented by a table with its four legs, and the importance of having a good balance in our life I believe that is a very good way to represent the necessity to identify the areas, emotions and feelings that are not at their best in our life in a compassionated and mindful way. I think then, that we do have a choice,...
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Practical and well elaborated exercise before going to sleep or mid-way to sleep.
The tone of the voice it is agreeable and at the same time firm and inviting to relaxation. Thank you a lot!! -
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Very nice and relaxing, of course it requires practice, but it is absolutely inviting and calm producing. Thank you!!
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SELF CARE AND WELLBEING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Very useful, very clear and very well explained paper and guide by Dr Kitty Wheater. I have previously taken two different courses about mindfulness, but this is the first time I have the opportunity to know and better understand how actually works our mind and attention in certain... -
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Very interesting, i really want to get started and practice these exercises!!
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Self-care as mentioned in the video supposes you to take care of yourself in the first place, therefore involves being more aware of yourself and stop to reflect in a more conscious way about you. Wellbeing as detailed by Dr Dorothy Armstrong, involves all four different aspects physical, psychological, social and spiritual for me, too.
This course then it...
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Hello everyone, I am happy to be here and have the opportunity to share with other fellow students, professors and tutors in this course this learning experience.
I am a teacher from Chile and I have been taking Future learn courses for a while, fact that has really motivated me a lot to continue learning specially aspects related to mindfulness and...
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Ariel G. made a comment
Hello everyone, I am happy to be here and have the opportunity to share with other fellow students, professors and tutors in this course this learning experience.
I am a teacher from Chile and I have been taking Future learn courses for a while, fact that has really motivated me a lot to continue learning specially aspects related to mindfulness and...
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Great, it looks very interesting and insightful in terms of a practical tool to incorporate in our daily life.
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I’m glad to be here, and grateful for this opportunity, thank you very much to you all!!
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Hello Marie, I think it is important to put things into perspective. Therefore, not everything it is the same in order to decide what action to take about mental illnesses. And I think that you are right when saying that some people think that they can solve everything through language, but the way they are looking at this kind of intervention it is not the...
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I would like to take this opportunity I have to write in this last step of the course, to thank everybody involved in it specially to our Professor Peter Kinderman, for the design of the course and for openly sharing his ideas and years of work and experience. I also like to thank to all the fellow learners and have had the opportunity to share ideas and great...
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Thank you so much for such a good piece of information and guide that at the same time allows to further investigate and connect more with related aspects that certainly this course has helped creating an important necessity to investigate more.
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Thank you so much for facilitating the access to such interesting material it is very thoughtful of your part. It allows to review in a more detailed way all the steps reviewed in this course and a lot more.
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Biomedical 27 before 22
Psychosocial 32 before 27
I'll look for the way how to best interpret this result.
Anyway, I can say that my internal view about the psychosocial influence proportion has importantly changed and about what is concerned about the extent of the biomedical proportion, has happened the opposite even though that... -
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Thanks a lot to you Professor Kinderman, a great course and learning experience.
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In my opinion, the most important element to consider here, are the people that are taking care of other people. In many cases the infrastructure and facilities distribution might be there. Of course, this is something that can be always improved, but the necessary training on the one hand for the people involved, and clear directions on the other, it is...
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After reading this extremely interesting “manifesto” publication by Professor Kinderman, and referring to what it concerns to improve the conditions of mental health services, I believe that education and consciousness it is key in a well-designed health model that is to be open and accepting people as equals where the core-centre of this model it is based...
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Trying to tackle the first question here, I would say that these ideas represent in an important part the biological as well as the sociological research into mental health. Since I am not an expert nor an authority to properly answer if this way of thinking properly account for all the different perspectives on mental health, I would say that in what it is my...
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Always the possibility to talk about different visions and perspectives enriches our own vision and the way we look at different things, in this case mental health, it is a big issue that can affect your whole life for good or bad, I believe that beyond every perception we might possess, it is our immense responsibility and value as human beings to put, and be...
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Extremely interesting and a great opportunity to round what we have learnt so far, thanks!!
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As mentioned in this course, I believe that exercise or simply walking, especially a mindful one, helps a lot as well as a healthy diet and/or having a hobby like playing an instrument, chess or reading in order to disconnect you brain from rumination and put it into a different level of consciousness. There are differences between social, psychological and...
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My pleasure Joëlle!!
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I think this “catch it, check it, change it”, is a very useful tool in order to really start connecting with yourself and from there modify perceptions affecting you,
Thanks!!
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Very interesting, thanks!
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Excellent tips, and for me they play and essential role in what we can mention as our attitude towards life and based on this what do you really want and what your values are. When you focus your way of thinking in more profound and perdurable values. Of course, reality and our position in life it is not the same for everyone, but I think that adding this...
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Awesome!!
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That is the idea, I think a better understanding of psychological processes undeniably help looking into more useful ways to helping people.
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Very interesting tool. I would like to mention that incorporating the idea of rumination in this model, it is extremely important and its effect in mental health it is a fundamental part of the equation where normally is sometimes referred to as a "silent" mental health problem because its impact is often underestimated. But it plays a big part in anything...
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Absolutely right, it represents and enormous pathway to deal and approach the way to treat mental illnesses.
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A unique study that confirms the hypothesized theory, life events constituted the most significant direct causal factor, and two key processes – self-blame and response style – significantly mediated all causal pathways. these results demonstrate that the impact of physical and social causes on mental health and well-being outcomes is mediated by psychological...
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Again, a very interesting article and at the same time revelling, specially going to important causes related to mental health but more importantly incorporating the idea about the the way a person thinks about, and deals with. Stressful events is as much an indicator of the level of stress and anxiety they feel.
So, whilst it is not possible to change a... -
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Very interesting to count on a sort of fallow up and be able to contrast the previous articles presented by using this predicting model.
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Extremely interesting paper by Professor Kinderman, I read the article and it took me certain amount of time to read in detail, and I think that I need to read some parts again. Anyway, I believe that this approach definitely integrates social, psychological and biological factors. And course adds something because It argues that simple biological...
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I think that putting things together, I mean giving the importance to all the elements that interact when we talk about mental health it is primordial. That is, taking the very same analysis, a unique process affecting a unique individual. Because as stated before a same situation does not affect in the same way to all individuals, so to name it somehow, the...
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Sounds interesting and challenging, thank you!!
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The extent of social factors is determined by the way it affects every individual.
John Read is correct probably the way and vocabulary he uses to example this, it is thought to reach and be understood by more people.
The social approach versus the biological approach it is more or less equivalent to the nature vs nurture debate, but at the same time it is a... -
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In no case Nick’s paper, it is simplistic or polarized on the contrary it encourages to integrate, and states “careful and skilful attention to biological, psychological and social issues and that in any particular clinical case these are commonly intertwined in a way that does not allow simple reductionism. Indeed, dealing with this complexity in a pragmatic,...
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I believe what it is specially highlighted here it is the focus how to better understand mental health and psychosocial factors influence. and more importantly demystifying labels that carry the idea that if you have something biologically inherited in you genes you cannot change it but only reduce its effect by using medication, in this equation here of...
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Extremely interesting paper by John Read in relation to what happened to the ‘psycho social’ in explanations of mental illness. I must say I absolutely agree with this vision where psychosocial interventions are in the front line and not merely triggers of a pre-existing biological condition and that it is possible to treat mental disease not only with drugs...
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Very interesting papers carrying two different sizes on how life- events affect our mental health, and going to the the question,
“Are these pieces of research suggesting that social or psychological approaches to explaining our emotions and mental health the most helpful?
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The extent of a social approach it is difficult to measure but absolutely necessary.
Before a serious mental problem, I would search for a well experienced psychologist and/or a well experienced psychiatrist
Would a social approach, such as Pat and colleagues recommend, mean it would be difficult to see a medically-qualified psychiatrist … and does that... -
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I believe that all the efforts leading to find a contribution to fully understand the causes of mental health lead to verify that many of them are plenty of common sense, by focusing on the social environment which is really a wide universe of different factors, we can approach the reality of and individual and humanise our approach to understand events and...
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Great! and very challenging and instructive week to review.
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As reviewed this week, the extension of mental health determined by biological factors, it is more or less a philosophical question but I think that Erick Kandel is right by saying that all mental processes come from our brain, and the elaboration of the psychological problems as well, but the origin of the problem it may not only be biological but also...
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As mentioned by Professor Kinderman Serotonin is considered a natural mood stabilizer. It’s the chemical that helps with sleeping, eating, and digesting, but I agree that this by itself doesn’t explain differences in mental health affecting people, and of course it is necessary a psychological and social approach as well.
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Being only a participant in this course whose aim it is to participate and learn about mental health, I would like to share with you what my impression is. Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure. It's a big part of our unique human ability to think and plan. It helps us strive, focus, and find things interesting. In my humble opinion I think that what...
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Very illustrating Dr Joanna Moncrieff’s blog and extremely interesting what it is there exposed. It makes a lot of sense for me, and at the same time is a gate to open and elaborate, always looking at the most beneficial treatments with better long lasting results.
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I think that the extent of medical biological approach it is absolutely relevant, but not the only one to consider. Having a very serious mental health problem it may require a medically-qualified psychiatrist as well as it may be fine if a qualified clinical psychologist is in charge. And of course, depending on the type of illness as if it is more...
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As explained, we’ve got a reward system in our brain based on predominantly the modification of the serotonin and dopamine molecules. They regulate similar bodily functions but produce different effects. Dopamine regulates mood and muscle movement and plays a vital role in the brain's pleasure and reward systems. Unlike dopamine, the body stores the majority...
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I think that by looking at Kandel’s theory and to all the examples given, it is every individual’s brain that ultimately processes every event or act occurring. I quote “So which of these (the brain changes and the events themselves) are the REAL cause of the behaviour?” I believe that it is always a unique event processed by a unique individual according to...
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Very illustrating and insightful article that not only permits to approximate the history of modern psychiatry and psychotherapy but also the modern principles and the current thinking of biologists about the relationship of mind to brain and its implications for the theory and practice of psychiatry and psychotherapeutic interventions.
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Thank you for such interesting links and sharing your views as well.
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Undeniably true that biological factors influence our mental health and neurotransmitter activity affects our moods, but it is also true that it is possible to rewire our brain in certain areas in order to re-educate the brain to more beneficial and positive outcomes and this is possible not only by using medication but using psychological therapies or...
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Alright, it looks very interesting and challenging!!
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Thank you, great first week!!
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Thank you for the info clarifying about the results
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Biomedical 22
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Yes, of course, it is useful as a primary approach by offering a good reference frame.
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It is hard to try to describe the feeling that produces such a brutal experience lived by a little girl first, and the consequences when trying to survive into a world offering no mercy while growing up later, and what a tremendous and brilliant warrior is Jacqui Dillon. This story gives us an immense lesson of humanity and faith in the most valuable aspects...
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Thank you a lot!!
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I think these two approaches are interesting and at the same time they permit to contrast some ideas, on the one hand Wikipedia provides a sort of about the individual’s point of view and how facing the day to day, and on the other hand the WHO organization points to the responsibility of various sectors; and also mentions activities that could be undertaken...
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Brave and brilliant woman. A wonderful lesson of humanity and resilience to our society.
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Excellent and very important points presented in the Executive Summary and the necessity to invest in prevention to reduce abuse, deprivation and inequality.
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Thank you so much Professor Kinderman for sharing your posts with us. I could not agree more with what you expose there, and it is admirable that politicians can discuss these issues in a very social and humane approach. As you mention before it is possible to train our brains to understand the world differently for good, and by doing so, do something about it...
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I think this summary from Professor Kinderman’s book it is extremely interesting. So, taking the last part of this article “if we change the way we think, we’ll change the world” and “it’s entirely possible to learn to look at the world differently”. I would like to say that it is completely possible to train our brains and change some behaviour affecting us...
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Indeed, statistics help us to better understand the dimension of a problem and of course this makes them necessary. I think that specially looking at adolescents and children where the most part of their interactions happen at school, amongst the multiplicity of factors affecting their mental health are also present bullying in all its forms i.e. social media...
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I think that by looking at different influences related to our mental health in a way provides a sort of holistic looking and even more sometimes leads us to look back into the past at early discoveries in the psychology field I mean Carl Jung for example, when presenting his theory of the Collective Unconscious Jung saw a connection between one’s personal...
