Mental Health

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The Impact of Executive Functioning Deficits on Daily Life and Work

12 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments valo

What it is and how it affects us   Executive functioning is not about how the executives in a company are doing their job. However, they need to be really good at it in order to excel at it. Executive functioning is a set of cognitive processes that...

Elephant Guns, Erase My Troubles One By One

10 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

"If I could run, I'd leave this town, I'd bury myself under the ground.As did I, we drink tonight, we drink to die.Far from home, elephant guns, erase my troubles one by one.[...]And it rips through the night, all night, all nightAnd it rips through...

The Unique Struggles of Having Both Autism and ADHD

10 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments valo

Dealing with two beasts at once Navigating life with both autism and ADHD can be particularly challenging, as the combination of these neurodevelopmental conditions presents unique difficulties. Individuals with both autism and ADHD may experience ex...

You're no Jesus Christ!

8 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal...

Reality is an illusion: how to free ourselves from the chains of perception.

4 Jul 2023 7 minute read 3 comments CryptoEntrepreneurs

Some time ago I wrote an article titled: Cryptocurrencies: Expectation vs Reality, but I was Focused only on cryptocurrency traders. In it, he analyzed how our perceptions and emotions influence our investment decisions, and how we can improve our pe...

My Battle With Mental Illness: A Story Of Survival And Relapse

2 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments valo

A lifelong journey Time and again, we hear the stories of people who have overcome their depressive episodes and managed to reach happiness. We’re familiar with the cliches of individuals who triumph over adversity, but often, mental illness can be a...

Mental Illness and the Outdated/Unsupported Hypothesis of "A Chemical Imbalance"

26 Jun 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

I realise that most people probably don't care about (much less discuss) depression, mental health and mental illness (particularly on this crypto-centric site), but I do because it is important to me. Please feel free to move onto something to do wi...

Can we really change and, if so, how? Yes, we can!

20 Jun 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Trigger Warning: This post deals with trauma and physical assault. That's not actually true when it comes to changing human behaviour and thinking, as it turns out. According to the various articles I have read on various counseling, mental health a...

How do you solve a problem like The Snark's broken brain?

20 Jun 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

I haven't posted anything in a few days (despite my challenge to myself to write something every day) because I've been feeling very low and rough recently. How does one go about fixing a broken person that can't be repaired, a person whom believes t...

Empty the storage room and the life

20 May 2023 3 minute read 4 comments Duvinca

Hello friends! We have to make space. Many times we will have told ourselves something like this, because it is true that over time we accumulate things, even if we don't want to, even if we are aware, without really knowing how, as if by magic one d...