Mental Health
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Resources and Advice About Therapy
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Parent Health Advice, Health & Illness Support, Support, Mental Health
Help in deciding if you need help.
Tips for Leaving Work Stresses at Work
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- Parent Category: Working Parents
- Category: Work/Life Balance Tips, Mental Health, Self-care
Do you bring the anxiety of work home with you? Sometimes it feels like it’s impossible to let go of job related stress. Here are tips parents have shared about how they let go of work-related negativity.
How to Handle Holiday Stress
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- Parent Category: Holidays and Special Events
- Category: Christmas, General Parenting Advice, Mental Health, Self-care
Christmas can bring more than presents, cookies and Santa Claus. With it can come stress, worry and anxiousness. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the Holiday buzz and feel like yourself spinning out of control.
Resources for Parents Under Stress
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- Category: Support, Mental Health
Parenting can be hard, especially with a limited support system. PSP can help by providing a community of neighbors who’ve been there and done that. Still, sometimes you need more than like-minded fellow parents. Many of us have times when we need professional assistance (for the good of our whole families). If you are feeling like you need professional help, here are some resources to turn to...
Wisdom/support for serious marital rough patch
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- Category: Support, Mental Health
Advice from PSP members about dealing with rough patches in a marriage/partnership.
Helping a friend with postpartum depression: "How can I be a good friend?"
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- Parent Category: Support
- Category: Health & Illness Support, Mental Health
A PSP parent asked their group what they can do to help a friend with postpartum depression. Also known as PPD or postnatal depression, postpartum depression is a condition a parent may suffer from following childbirth. There is no single cause but it often results from a combination of hormonal changes, psychological adjustment to parenthood and fatigue.
Help, Resources, and Advice for Stressed Out Parents, Post Partum Depression (PPD), and PMADs
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- Category: New Parent Big Stuff, Mental Health, Health & Illness Support
If you are feeling stressed out and feeling alone? Do you find yourself wondering if you could have post partum depression (PPD) or a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder (PMAD)? Here are a list of warning signs from the Post Partum Depression Center, as well as links to personal experiences and stories from local parents about how they deal with feelings of stress and depression.
PSP Members Advice about Post Partum Depression
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- Category: New Parent Big Stuff, Mental Health
PSP members share their personal experiences with PPD in response to one member's cry for help on the PSP Advice List.
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