Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thinking, mood, and behavior could be affected.
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Please enjoy our latest Mental Health Articles:
With Respect to the Spectrum by Joy Renee
I was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism in the Fall of 2015 the very week of the annual fundraiser for Autism. How ironic is that? I was 57 and 10/12ths. Essentially I had self-diagnosed a few months previous while reading aloud to my Mom, The Best Kind of...
Learning About IBS
IBS stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. IBS is a very common disorder that affects the large intestine. IBS affects 3-20% of the US population, depending on ethnicity, gender, communication abilities, education, financial and coexisting medical conditions. Luckily...
Staying Healthy During Stressful Times aka Quarantine
If you are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis and you are located in Cowlitz County please call:Cowlitz County Mental Health Crisis Line: (800) 803-8833 or (360) 425-6064Numbers for surrounding counties are located at the bottom of this article I have been in...
Self-Care Yourself to Wellness
Self-Care is a vital part of life that I think many of us have little to no knowledge of. I know I didn’t 10 years ago. Just like many other people, it took me getting really sick to make me start learning. I don’t want this to happen to you so here I am putting...
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2020
February 24 through March 1, 2020 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Eating Disorders are both medical and mental health disorders, they are not a lifestyle choice. If you are needing immediate help please contact the National Eating Disorders Association:...
Learning About Recreational Therapy
I am disabled. Being disabled makes every day activities and exercise or like I call it, movement, a challenge. Because I have challenges I have to be creative in how I choose to move my body. There are 48.9 million Americans in the United States. 24.1 million have a...
Pursuing Bariatric Surgery
The Hard Decision If you follow me on Facebook or are one of my friends on Facebook you might have read that I am Pursuing Bariatric Surgery. This was not an easy decision for me to make. It has taken me years. Choosing to change your stomach with surgery shouldn’t be...
The Importance of Self-Care
I wasn’t planning for The Importance of Self-Care to be the next article I write for Wellness Works NW; I knew a blog about self-care was brewing, but it wasn’t until Monday afternoon that I understood the timing of this article. You see, Veda is here. If you haven’t...
What is Wellness?
I feel like I am at ground zero when it comes to my wellness journey. A lot of challenges have shown up in my life and it is time to re-assess and come up with a different approach to my plans. I am learning that there are times that you have to slow down, realign,...
Is Your Diet a Trusted Wellness Tool or Just a Fad?
Fads come and go but we all need our diet to be a Trusted Wellness Tool. Instead of relying on any Fad Diet, I think we can all say that Healthy Eating should be a goal we all work towards. I have a beef with diets. It is personal. I don’t mean to color your Wellness...
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