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If your mission is gaining insight into your mood and anxiety symptoms and securing relief, then Chipur's content will help you accomplish them. This website is a haven of sharing, learning, and relief for those enduring depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and stress. Chipur also focuses on the causes of emotional and mental disorders, as well as how they work in the body.
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1w ago
Saving new recipes to virtual boards is so much fun, but making them can be stressful. You’re already hungry and likely pressed for time, but cooking doesn’t have to feel that way. How is that possible? It’s all in the power of mindfulness.
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3w ago
To your dismay, you’ve been drinking four cups of coffee a day for 20 years. Energy boost, taste, habit - who knows? But one thing you do know, your parents are heavy coffee drinkers. “Wait a minute, is this about genetics?” Could be.
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1M ago
You can get away with it with your car: "I don't care how the brakes work, just fix ‘em.” But that won't fly with emotional and mental illnesses. It’s important to try to understand how our brain works, especially the anatomy and physiology that generate our challenges.
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1M ago
This business of living can generate confounding questions when you’re trying to manage emotional or mental health challenges. For instance, what do we do when chaos strikes and we go down with a serious injury? Let’s talk about it…
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1M ago
In emotional agony, Rick pounds his fist on the table and says, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” With a few modifications, he could be talking about struggling with an emotional or mental health issue.
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1M ago
We’re often encouraged to be selfless in a selfish world. But surviving in such a world requires, at the very least, what we’ll call, selective selfishness. And to put it into motion, every day - all day - it comes down to you - first. Here's the dope…
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2M ago
There are countless interventions for emotional and mental distress and illness. Some are evidence-based and some are, shall we say, “interesting.” For instance, using ayahuasca. Let’s catch Patricia’s story.
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2M ago
Children, like adults, experience a wide range of emotions, including sadness, anger, fear, frustration, and anxiety. But unlike us, they have yet to learn how to express and articulate their feelings healthily. And that can cause problems.
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3M ago
What’s worse than having a medical condition for which the first-line medication works 50% of the time? How ‘bout one for which at least two different first-line medications don’t work at all. Let’s talk about treatment-resistant depression.
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3M ago
Living with chronic depression or anxiety is no picnic. I mean, it can take all we have to get out of bed, and then it's on to a day of symptoms, frustration, and self-assault. But through it all, believe it or not, our uniqueness and likability remain intact.
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