Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control. It consists of learning what causes your anger and finding healthy ways to express your feelings, without lashing out. Anger management is not about suppressing angry feelings, but learning how to productively use your emotions to convey your thoughts and emotions. Anger is a very normal emotion that we all feel. Once you learn how to express it appropriately, it should lessen the negative effects that anger has your life. You can learn anger management skills on your own by reading books or finding legitimate resources. Most people prefer to take an anger management class or work with a licensed therapist.

Making some adjustments to the way you use social media can help ease the pain of a breakup. Here are some tips.

Here are a few self care ideas that you could implement in order to help balance your lifestyle.

Everyone faces difficulties, challenges, and set backs. Let’s face it, life can be really hard at times. Here are a few quotes to help keep you going.

Self-harm is also known as non-suicidal self-injury. This can be a very confusing and scary topic for both teenagers and parents. It is generally a difficult thing to talk about, especially when a teenager does not fully understand why they are doing it. The best way to help a teenager to stop self-harming is to help them understand and address the underlying issues.

How do we tell the difference from normal family drama, and a dynamic thats turned toxic? Here’s some thoughts on that.

As with any addiction, a sex addiction is referred to a proposed diagnosis for people who have an excessive amount of sex and feel distress as a result. The key is that it has to be in excess and significantly impact one’s life in a negative way in order to be categorized as an addiction.

A midlife crisis occurs in middle-aged adults (typically 45-64 years old) when they are going through transitions regarding their identify and self-confidence. It is described in psychology as a crisis, which is generally brought on by things that are highlighted a person’s growing age, inevitable mortality, and shortcomings of life accomplishments. Midlife crises can bring about feelings of depression, remorsefulness, anxiety, and the desire to be young again. This desire to feel young again tends to bring about life changes, such as purchasing a sports car.

Domestic violence is defined as: violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation. Also known as intimate partner violence, it is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another. These behaviors include physical harm, fear tactics, isolation, and/or forcing their partner to do things they do not want to do. Behaviors are any type of violence, threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, and/or economic deprivation. Most times, you will see combinations of different types of abuse happening in a relationship.

Learn about the characteristics of this mental illness and some red flags to watch out for, based on criteria listed in the DSM-V – a manual for psychological diagnosis.