It seems unbelievable that people might be able to work through longstanding emotional baggage quickly and easily. However, in some circumstances it's possible to break free of long-term shame and/or anxiety with some small cognitive-behavioral shifts. Try these suggestions to see how. 1. Be honest, open, and upfront about unwarranted sources of shame. Let's run through an example of this principle. I'm an extreme night owl. I love the quiet and stillness of the night but

When mental health comes up in conversation, the usual reaction is to lighten the mood with a joke or dance around the topic until the moment passes. This polite detachment when talking about mental health only furthers the stigma surrounding it and sends the message that it’s not okay to talk about. The truth is you don’t need to be diagnosed with a mental disorder to be affected by mental health; from the burst of anxiety you feel when you are drowning in assignments to the

A student shot and critically wounded two fellow students at a Maryland high school before a campus security officer ended the attack by wounding the shooter, a law enforcement official said. The shooter shot a male student and a female student at Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, and was then wounded by a campus security officer, county Sheriff Timothy Cameron told MSNBC. All three were in critical condition at hospitals. It was not clear whether the student shoo