Articles tagged with: Mental Health
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Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon I arrive 45 minutes early to set up the Total Body Challenge class in the gym. Setting up for this class …
by Melissa Fisher
I hated running. If I’m being honest, I hated all things exercise. But even more, the thought of running seemed like torture to me.
A few years ago, I found myself with two kids …
by Jessica Tinney
At the beginning of this deployment, I had so many plans and goals to be accomplished. Some called me an overachiever. To those people, I would like to say that I am flattered …
By Amanda Vicinanzo
“I will only be happy when . . .”
How often do we utter this expression? For many of us, happiness remains contingent on some future event. We say we will be happy when …
by Claire Shackelford
Depression is on the increase this time of year. Please take good care of yourself, and if you know a friend who is struggling with depression, make it a point to check in …
by Claire Shackelford
I am an inherent worrier. I come from a long line of worriers. We worry that we worry too much. I have spent the greater half of my middle adulthood fighting back the …
by Claire Shackelford
One day a couple of months before Mike’s second deployment I caught myself anticipating ‘anticipatory grief!’ Those of you who have been through a deployment know exactly what I am talking about. You …
by Patti Katter, Christian Military Wives
Recently, I have had an influx of women sending emails to me asking if I have any information to help them cope with a husband who has PTSD.
Let me introduce …
A large-scale study published yesterday found that 36.6percent of women whose husbands had deployed had at least one mental-health diagnosis, compared with 30.5 percent of women whose husbands had not deployed. Depression, anxiety, sleep disorder and …
