Holistic Well-being

US surgeon general Vivek Murthy describes five forms of being alone – the first four of which can damage your mental and physical health:

• Intimate loneliness – You long for someone in whom you can confide or an intimate partner.
• Relational loneliness...

This metaphor means seeing your mental health as a wallet: money comes in, money comes out. How much money is in there is how many adverse events you can go through while sustaining your mental health.

We usually only worry about our mental health during distressing events, and do...

A study revealed that dwelling on negative life events can result in mental health problems. However, the study indicated that rather than the events itself, its how we think about those events, that shapes our psychologyical well-being.

First, understand what negative tho...