“When we block our awareness of feelings, they continue to affect us anyway. Research has shown repeatedly that even without conscious awareness, neural input from the internal world of the body and emotion influences our reasoning and our decision making. Even facial expressions we’re not aware of, even changes in heart rhythm we may not notice, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mental health’
What Are We Saying When We Don’t Say Anything?
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Anxiety, Self-Injury, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Daniel J. Siegel, Facial expression, Mental health, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Youth
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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Posted: February 21, 2011 in Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Self-Injury, Teens, UncategorizedTags: Disorders, Eating, Eating Disorder, Health, Mental health, Mercy Ministries, National Eating Disorders Association, National Institute of Mental Health
For more information on and help for eating disorders please visit the following: National Eating Disorders National Institute of Mental Health Something Fishy Conversations on the Fringe Mercy Ministries
Suicide Prevention
Posted: October 12, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: American Association of Poison Control Centers, Crisis hotline, Disorders, Health, Mental health, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Suicide, Support Groups
Almost inevitably, family members and friends are drawn into the painful world of suicide. In light of the numerous cases of suicide over the last month we think it would be helpful to give some guidelines for families and friends of those who struggle with suicidal ideation. If a family member or friend is acutely [...]
The Trinity Of Depression
Posted: October 4, 2010 in Depression, Spirituality, Youth MinistryTags: Cognition, Cognitive distortion, depression, Disorders, Great Depression, Health, Hope, Mental health, Mood
Beck (1963, 1964) noted the way depressed patients interpreted their current life experiences. The depressed person tended to distort their experiences; they misinterpreted specific, irrelevant events in terms of personal failure, deprivation, or rejection; they tended to greatly exaggerate or overgeneralize any event that bore any semblance of negative information about themselves; they also tended [...]
Suicide Grief: Living in the Aftermath of a Suicide
Posted: September 17, 2010 in Depression, Mental Health, Suicide, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Death, depression, Emotion, Grief, Health, Holy Spirit, Mental health, Suicide
A student’s suicide can be emotionally devastating. Using and modeling healthy coping strategies — such as seeking support — will help you and others on the journey to healing and acceptance. When a student dies, your grief may be heart-wrenching. When a student commits suicide, your reaction may be more complicated. Overwhelming emotions may leave [...]
Examining False Core Beliefs
Posted: August 18, 2010 in Adolescent Development, Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Parenting, TeensTags: Albert Ellis, Belief, depression, Happiness, Health, Mental health, Self-esteem, Self-Help
Research has found that a number of core beliefs identified by the psychologist Albert Ellis are consistently linked to self-dislike and depression. I see these in many young people today and they go largely unchallenged by adults because many of the adults in their lives are handicapped by the same irrational beliefs. Below is a [...]
How Thin Is Thin Enough?
Posted: August 17, 2010 in Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Ann Taylor, BodyImage, Disorders, Eating, Eating Disorder, Health, Jonny Diaz, Mental health, model
Our friends over at Fuller Youth Institute published a great post today about the messages we are sending our young girls. They referred to an article in the Huffington Post about photos of models that have been touched up to make the model look thinner. As a father of three young girls I’m concerned that [...]
