On WittedRoots.com, the Mental Health category will highlight informed articles that will explore various disorders + conditions, as well as strategies + therapies, relating to mental health + emotional wellness in millennial women of color.
How To Deal With Anxiety And Depression?: My Heart Is On Fire And My Mind Is Sweating
What Is anxiety and how to deal with anxiety and depression? Let me just say this before we get too far into this: don’t go self-diagnosing; this piece is not for that activity. But I do want us to be…
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms For Anxiety Attacks
I frequent social media networks that are littered with different people who deal with their anxiety and other mental illnesses in different ways. It is possible that you encounter people dealing with their mental illnesses differently than you expected as…
How To Mentally Heal Yourself?: Expressive Writing Therapy
The Pen As Your Greatest Ally There are many creative ways to use the arts (music, dance, painting, writing) for therapeutic purposes. Whether or not you consider yourself creative, these various uses of art can create new avenues for self-expression,…
What Is Dermatillomania: The Skin Picking Disorder?
What is dermatillomania, the skin picking disorder? Everyone has bad habits — those pesky little behaviors like nail-biting or foot-tapping — that they would all like to cease. I have a particularly bad, “shameful” habit of picking at my fingers,…
How Living With Anxiety Affects Your Health
Living with anxiety. We often hear about, or even experience for ourselves, the ghastly chest compressing fear that comes with doing things we aren’t used to doing, meeting new people, or going to new places. It is difficult to not…
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Mental health is often misunderstood and there is an unfortunate stigma that perpetuates, especially in the Jamaican society, that a person with a mental health issue is “mad”. When many people picture someone mentally ill, their initial assumption is someone…
How To Treat Anxiety Naturally: 4 Ways To Deal With Anxiety
Being wary of people, places, and situations is not inherently negative behavior. If you really think about it, giving yourself the chance to think things through may actually be one of the best ways to avoid or remove yourself from…