Category: Mental Health Matters
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I TOOK TWO DAYS OFF AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
The art of doing nothing helps you lean more into who you are meant to be. Who we are is directly tied to what we spend our time doing so it’s very easy to forget you’re a human being these days not just your job title. I go from CEO to assistant to the CEO,…
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Who Am I to You?
Who am I to you? I’d like to say that I am more than what meets the eye. I find it absurd that some people make assumptions about who I am, especially those who only knew me for two months. They ask generic, superficial questions, maybe dabble in a few intellectual conversations, and then suddenly,…
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Why The Death Penalty For Hate Crimes Makes Sense In A Modern America, Buffalo Shooter Sentenced to LWOP, Awaits More Fed Charges
Capital punishment or death row has long been one of the big Americana debates along with immigration and abortion-rights. Many oppose the legal right of a state to kill someone convicted of a crime so heinous it warrants the ultimate punishment. Still, in a modern America, people are still executed. Yesterday, 19-year-old Payton Gendron, the…
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All In A Year’s Time, A Lot Can Change In Life, Tahyira Savanna Speaks on her personal growth journey
Dear Diary, Thank you universe for blessing me in unexpected ways. I named the title All In a Year’s Time. It is reflective of me truly growing up and entering a new freedom zone. I launched all in a year’s time when I was 24 years old. I couldn’t find a job during the great…
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Selena Gomez Sheds Her Celebrity In Her Human Interest Piece My Mind and Me
The pop star turned businesswoman has went from child performer to adult phenomenon. In this documentary with Apple TV+ she shows her fans and the world, the real-life Selena. Fans have already been sharing their feedback – mainly comforting. Menta health is a major medical and human rights issue affecting the United States since the…
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Ye Facing Defamation Suit from Floyd Family After Claims Made on Video Podcast, Drink Champs, Produced By Revolt
Diddy’s owned Revolt hosts Drink Champs, with Nore invited Kanye West for a conversation about everything he’s been saying publicly. West has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The producers at Drink Champ used West’s appearance on the program for click bait. He was previously a guest on the show back in 2021, where his interview…
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Sweet Dreams, My King
By: Charlene Frett “Listen,” they say. “Listen!” “Do it. Do it now!” “Quickly. Quickly!” I watch the shadows of the night peek through windows and creep upon our bed sheets, teeth mimicking the scraping of fabric, nails clawing at toes. I can almost hear them, the demons, screeching and squalling through curtains, thirsting for blood…
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Black People’s Mental Health Is At Risk Consuming Race-Based Violent Videos Online
We watch our people killed by police right from our smartphones – and white supremacists are even live-streaming their murders! We want to stay “informed,” but is watching this racially violent content actually doing us more harm than good? Listen to Live Hangouts, Tahyira Keeps It Too Reel, a podcast covering Black mental health by…
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When Will Black America Shoot Back?
During the upcoming midterm elections, all of our shots have scored major wins. Click here to check your voting registration. May is mental health awareness month in the United States, but in reality, one group has been under attack for their basic freedoms since the 1800s. Black America is under attack as they are now…
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Find Content That Matters To You
With daily digital uploads across social sharing platforms reaching in the billions per day, how on Earth do you sort through all of it. Youtube reported that it receives about 5 million hours of new content uploaded onto its platform per day. The amount of content watched still greatly outweighs the amount that’s produced which…
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burwell Offers Delicate Hope and Warm Comfort After Loss With New EP ‘boxes’
The past few years have been unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before, especially for those who have lost loved ones during the pandemic. The astonishing singer-songwriter burwell lost her mother in March 2020, and in the years since, she’s been turning her pain into the beautiful EP boxes: an exploration of grief and some of…
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Instagram Neglects Black Usership Complaints Especially During Black History Month
In June of 2020, Variety reported that the Facebook owned social media sharing site Instagram would be reviewing its practices in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests exploding across the streets of America and online after the murder of George Floyd. George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African-American man who was murdered by a…
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The Art Of Privacy
On the most recent episode of the Fox comedy Call Me Kat, I was truly able to empathize with Randi (played by Kyla Pratt) and her reasoning behind not wanting Carter (Julian Gant) to know her middle name. I, too, have anxiety letting others know everything about me. And even though telling someone your middle…
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Kanye West displaying narcissist behavior- Is it a cry for help?
Ye’ formerly known as Kanye West has been publicly putting his wife Kim Kardashian and their divorce on blast by ranting on social media. This weekend West went live explaining how he was not allowed to attend his daughter Chicago’s 4th birthday party, to only end up finding and crashing the party! Kanye has also…
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5 Ways Binaural beats can improve your mental health
Everyone has to deal with stress. Whether it’s work, our personal lives, or just the malaise of living through a LITERAL global pandemic, the world is as stressed and anxious as ever. In such hard times, it’s more important than ever before to take care of ourselves, especially our mental health. Applications like Headspace and…
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The Secret Garden
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett continues to be a favorite book that I have gone back to reread about three times already. Published in 1911 in England, this children’s book has…
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So… Hustle Culture…
“Time is money”. “They’re sleeping while you’re working”. “You gotta hustle hard”. “It’s time to rise and grind”. “The hustle never stops”. “You can’t sleep for 8 hours, that’s for poor people”. “Don’t have fun in your twenties, just grind and enjoy the fruits of your labor in your forties”. “We all have the same…
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My Battle with Anxiety
TW: I don’t recommend anyone reading this in an anxious state, come back later love. I was at work, I sat in my office chair and looked over the day’s invoices I had to finish. The night before I slept three to four hours after returning from a rowdy night from the bar with friends.…
