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Mental Health First Aid: The Critical Skill Set Every Workplace Needs

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It’s standard practice to have multiple employees in every organization qualified in first aid so they can attend to physical injuries until professional medical help arrives. However, the same consideration is seldom extended toward mental stress and strain—otherwise known as mental health first aid—and that needs to change.

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10 Healthy Habits: Why Not Now?

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For example, a pessimist in a minor traffic jam may experience a stress response that causes immediate and short-term reactions such as raised blood pressure. In the long term, however, chronic stress can have a negative impact on our physical and mental health. Stop the train of runaway thoughts. veggies and fruit.

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The Power of Strong Friendships in Strengthening Well-Being

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Having strong friendships is important for everybody at all times but especially so for someone enduring a massively stressful situation like he is—frankly, like we all have in the past few years. Loneliness exacerbates stress, which leads to poor eating habits, which brings those lonely people to his practice.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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And excessive amounts of the “stress hormones” adrenaline and cortisol—released during negative states such as sadness, fear and anxiety—increase heart rate and blood pressure over time, triggering a host of other health problems. Many studies bear out that once basic needs (shelter, nutrition, security, adequate medical care, etc.)

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