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May- Mental Health Awareness Month Multidimensional Awareness

by Aaron Weiner | May 24, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Seasonal

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Which means that there is a lot of extra focus on mental...

Holidays, Looking Back before Looking Forward

by Breaking Taboo | Feb 8, 2023 | Articles, Seasonal

With the holidays now at an end and the slow monotony of daily routine creeping back, we may all...

Suicide: The Other Pandemic

by Crystal Lancaster | Sep 22, 2022 | Articles, Depression, Seasonal, Suicide

For the majority of us, September marks the start of Autumn. A long-awaited season bringing brisk...

5 Psychology Tricks to Keep Your New Years Resolutions!

by Caitlyn Ng | Jan 20, 2021 | Articles, Seasonal

The New Year is here! One of the most common practices that almost everyone participates in is...

When Seasons Change, Emotions Change

by Lucy Li | Mar 3, 2020 | Articles, Seasonal

Going into March, the start of springtime, we at Breaking Taboo would love to talk about how the...

Tips for Being Single And Happy on Valentines Day! Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue….

by Breaking Taboo | Feb 3, 2020 | Articles, Seasonal

Toward the end of the winter holidays, I remember running to my local grocery story to grab some...

New Year, New You? Let’s Break the taboo …

by Breaking Taboo | Jan 27, 2020 | Articles, Seasonal

Not only is 2020 the start of a new decade but it’s also the start of a lot of new promises. But...

How To Navigate The Holidays

by Serena Sun | Dec 23, 2018 | Articles, Seasonal

Ahh the holidays! Makes us think of hot cocoa, sweet music, presents, snow, and STRESS! Cooking...

The loss of someone you don’t know: How Matthew Perry’s death affected me

by Breaking Taboo | January 26, 2024 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

I was in elementary school when I first watched an episode of Friends. I was immediately drawn to the character of Chandler. We were both awkward. We were both funny. We both had problems. He was one of my first TV crushes after Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I became...

The Effects of Schizophrenia and Depression on Everyday Life

by Breaking Taboo | January 9, 2024 | Articles, Depression | 0 Comments

Schizophrenia is a life-long mental health condition that affects the way someone perceives reality, and can include various symptoms including experiencing delusions and or experiencing hallucinations. Depression is a mental health condition that negatively affects...

Mental Health In the Work Place

by Breaking Taboo | December 12, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

Before diving in, I’d like to explain my word choice. Instead of “Mental Illness,” I will refer to it as “Mental Health Challenges.” I don’t like to use terms like “illness,” “issues”, or “problems.” The reason being is, unlike physical ailments, mental health plays a...

What is the Difference Between Personality Disorders and Mood Disorders?

by Breaking Taboo | November 30, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles, Bipolar, Depression, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Mood swings during stressful times are natural, but those living with a mood disorder like bipolar (BP) or personality disorder like borderline (BPD) have extreme, erratic, and sometimes irrational changes in their mental state. A lot of symptoms overlap, but these...

How to Practice Self-Care if You Have PCOS

by Breaking Taboo | October 18, 2023 | Articles | 0 Comments

It's all too easy to feel alone and helpless when living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). This condition, which affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age, disrupts your hormone and metabolism systems, and the symptoms include increasing your amount of body hair,...

A Psychotic Mind: My History of Schizophrenia, Self-Harm, and Suicide Attempts

by Breaking Taboo | September 20, 2023 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

*Trigger warning: Self-harm and suicide attempts As a child, I remember being happy, I remember feeling safe, but after my parent's divorce, I remember feeling so much anguish and pain. For me, self-injury was activated by my parent’s divorce. I was 11 years old when...

How Does Attention and Imagery Ability Relate to Emotion?

by Mona Saii | September 1, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

It seems evident that the depth that individuals feel and emotionally respond toward stimuli ebbs and flows. Consider, for example, how a person experiences deep elation and joy when listening to their favorite song yet later experiences a dulled affective response...

What AI Can Bring to Suicide Prevention

by Kara Crew | August 21, 2023 | Articles, Suicide | 0 Comments

Our society has become enthralled with Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is becoming an intrinsicphrase in our zeitgeist. In the coming years, AI will embed itself into various professional fields. Although legal and policy measures may temper its impact, it is...

Mental Health IS physical Health, Exercise Boosts both!

by Serena Sun | August 21, 2023 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

Mental Health IS health. I’ve always said that, because it’s the truth. We can’t separate the two. Just like physical health IS health, mental health is health. I could actually argue that mental health might be even more so, since every single function in our body...

Why is anxiety so paralyzing?

by Melinda Larson | July 21, 2023 | Anxiety, Articles | 0 Comments

“Why is anxiety so paralyzing?” If there is such a thing as various degrees of literal, I would say there should be a spectrum to define how deeply a life has been interrupted, paused, and frozen still. In my experience, it can be so physically paralyzing you would...