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Practicing accepting emotions can lead to better emotional health. Learn more about why people push feelings away and the benefits of accepting them.| Verywell Mind
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How you react to stress makes all the difference. Strong stress management skills lead to higher levels of happiness and satisfaction.| Verywell Mind
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Someone with pessimism expects the worst. Learn more about this personality trait, including its impact on your life and signs that you may be a pessimistic person.| Verywell Mind
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Knowing how to handle stressful situations can help you cope with challenges and build resilience. Learn more about tactics for handling stress.| Verywell Mind
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We all make bad decisions sometimes, but knowing why this happens can help. Learn the reasons for bad decisions and what you can do to make better choices.| Verywell Mind
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The representativeness heuristic is a mental shortcut for making decisions or judgments. Learn how it impacts thinking and sometimes leads to bias.| Verywell Mind
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If you're looking for treatment for PTSD, many options exist. Learn some of the most common, as well as a few alternative and innovative remedies for treating PTSD.| Verywell Mind
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Traumatic events and other risk factors can lead to PTSD. Find out how health professionals define such events in the process of diagnosing PTSD.| Verywell Mind
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Setting boundaries is an important part of maintaining good mental health. Learn why it's important to set boundaries and how to do it in this article.| Verywell Mind
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Empathy allows us to take the pain and suffering of another person as if it were our own. Learn the effects of empathy in relationships and how to strengthen it.| Verywell Mind
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Learn the physical and mental symptoms of burnout, along with factors that can increase your risk. We also share several ways to prevent and recover from burnout.| Verywell Mind
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The majority of Americans use social media, but how is online activity affecting their mental health? Find out how social media and mental health are intertwined.| Verywell Mind
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When your partner's primary love language is words of affirmation, it means expressing your appreciation in words. Learn how you can speak love to your partner.| Verywell Mind
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Negative self-talk can be damaging to your body, your mind, and your life, and it often goes unnoticed. Learn about the effects and how to stop negative self-talk.| Verywell Mind
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Positive thinking is good for the body, mind, and overall health. Learn some of the biggest benefits of positive thinking, including better immunity and less stress.| Verywell Mind
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Analysis paralysis means that you overthink decisions, which makes it more difficult to make a decision. Learn more about how to handle analysis paralysis.| Verywell Mind
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The decision-making process is often susceptible to errors, fallacies, and biases. Learn more about some of the decision-making problems we face.| Verywell Mind
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Confidence is important for mental well-being and can boost resilience and motivation while lowering anxiety. Here are nine tips for how to be more confident.| Verywell Mind
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Learn about the availability heuristic, a type of mental shortcut that involves basing judgments on info and examples that quickly come to mind.| Verywell Mind
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Exposure therapy is a behavioral treatment for PTSD that has been found to be effective. Learn more about exposure therapy and different techniques.| Verywell Mind
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PTSD has far-reaching effects on your everyday life, but you can improve its symptoms through counseling, mindfulness, lifestyle changes, and more.| Verywell Mind
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Stress, health, and well-being are all connected. Learn what stress is, how different types of stress can affect your body and health, and ways you can cope.| Verywell Mind
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Negative automatic thoughts are a form of dysfunctional thinking associated with social anxiety that can delay recovery and therapy progress. Learn more.| Verywell Mind
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Learn what distraction is and how you can use it to cope with strong emotions, especially if you have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).| Verywell Mind
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Cognitive distortions can contribute significantly to stressors and poor mental health. Learn about common cognitive distortions to recognize and free yourself of them.| Verywell Mind
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Positive self-talk can minimize stress and improve self-concept. Learn more about effective strategies that can help you build a positive self-talk habit.| Verywell Mind
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Psychologists have identified a number of different strategies we use when making decisions. Factors such as time and complexity can influence this.| Verywell Mind
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Emotional resilience refers to one's ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. Learn how to increase your emotional resilience and stress less.| Verywell Mind
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Toxic positivity is an attitude that demands happiness even in negative or difficult situations. Learn why this mindset can be harmful and what you can do instead.| Verywell Mind
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Long-term strategies and support are essential for overcoming addiction. Your life will benefit from change, so remain open and learn from the experience of others.| Verywell Mind