Mental Health Blog Posts
Triggers And Mental Illness: How To Recognize Them
Triggers And Mental Illness: How To Recognize Them The struggle with mental illness is one that many people face daily. It can be difficult for people who don't have mental health issues to understand what's going on inside someone's mind and how to help them. Triggers can be a huge [...]
Impact of Mental Illness on Relationships & Friendships
Impact of Mental Illness on Relationships & Friendships Mental health issues or illnesses can wreak havoc on an individual’s everyday life that, in turn, negatively influence personal and professional relationships in the end. Undiagnosed and untreated mental health problems have been reported to harm friendships and relationships more than anything [...]
What is the Best Way to Support Family Members With Mental Health Problems?
What is the Best Way to Support Family Members With Mental Health Problems? With the world grappling with the outbreak of COVID-19 and all of the government lockdowns that the population has endured, there has never been a greater risk of a family member developing a mental illness. Mental illness [...]
Emotional Eating and Eating Disorders
Binge Eating Disorder or BED Recently I have had the opportunity to speak about the importance of mental health and my own story with two different groups. One of these groups was my Local Victorian Speakers Tribe members, and the other group was the Murrumbidgee Mens Group in Wagga Wagga, [...]
The Old Me vs. The New Me
The Old Me vs. The New Me Stuck In A Rut Recently I've been in a bit of a funk, a low point, if you will. It's nothing like I usually get to, as in it's not super bad, but it's had me scratching my head wondering what the hell [...]
How I Conquered My Fears By Challenging Myself
Hey everyone, it's Craig Marchant here, and I'm the author of "Conquer Your Inner Demons: The Ultimate Guide to Better Mental Health", and founder of "Destination Inspiration". And today, I want to talk to you about how I conquered my fears and started living my life on my terms. My [...]
Grief and Children – They Need Guidance
Grief and Children The death of a loved one can cause so many emotions and feelings. As adults, we try and take the positive, remembering the good times rather than the bad. The grief process can vary from individual to individual. At least, that’s how I chose to look at [...]
2020 – That’s a wrap folks
2020 - That's a Wrap Folks As is my tradition, I like to finish off the year with a friendly JibJab year in review video. I grew up watching JibJab and some of their stuff is amazing. They stopped doing them for a while, but I'm glad to [...]
Mental Illness and Hospitalisation
Mental Illness and Hospitalisation So the dreaded 'H' word has just been lobbed at you like a live hand grenade and has you ducking for cover while you work out what happens next. Hospitalisation generally happens when one of two things occur: You said the magic words to your GP [...]