STD Mental Health Handbook: Therapy, Recovery, and Support
by Monique R Darnell
Having an STD is a LIFE-CHANGING EVENT!
Therapy, what is therapy? What is counseling? How does it relate to me?
Psychology has been around since the 1800s. It has been evolving and expanding to heights we could never have imagined. Psychologists, scientists, and other mental health professionals have been breaking the norm and creating new paradigm shifts within the field of psychology. We now know that stress not only affects your emotions, but it has been proven to have effects on your body, specifically your immune system. This quantum leap created new theories, philosophies, research, and experiments that brought us here today. Anxiety, stress, trauma, and depression are all a part of our lives.
The question is, when do these emotions or experiences become a mental health diagnosis? What we perceive, experience, and feel as it relates to living can be a mental health disorder.
The Shame Game: A Countercultural Approach to Overcoming Shame and Improving Mental, Relational, and Sexual Health
by Lindsey Ellyn
Shame has a way of isolating us and making us feel alone in our experiences. It compels us to hide, often at the expense of our mental, relational, sexual, or spiritual health. In The Shame Game, debut author Lindsey Ellyn boldly asks: What would it look like to approach shame with grace and humor? How can we learn what we can from shame and then let it go? What would it look like to prioritize our health and well-being over the lies shame tells us?
