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Have you been wondering if your mental health is possibly getting worse mental health, just like physical health affects everyone, whether you're suffering from a mental illness or not, your mental and emotional health can fluctuate from time to.

Depending on the stress is going on in your life. So it's always a good idea to check in with yourself and try to gauge the direction your mental health is going in with that said, here are 10 signs that your mental health is getting worse. Number one, you're losing interest in the little things. Do your favorite activities suddenly seem me to you.

If you've started to lose excitement for life's little things, then this is a sign that your mental health might not be at its best. You might be feeling this way because of an overload of stress in your life, or you're feeling overwhelmed with all of your responsibilities and your to-do lists when you lose interest and don't enjoy the hobbies and activities that you once did.

This could also be a warning sign of depress. If you think this could be what's happening to, you know, that you aren't alone. And that help is just around the corner. Talk with a trusted friend or family member or a mental health professional to get the help you need to navigate these troubling times.

Number two, you get overwhelmed easier. Do you find that you've been getting overwhelmed more often than normal? When you have a to-do list for two or three tasks, does it feel more like you have 10 things to do when you start to get overwhelmed easily with everyday things? This could be a sign of worsening mental.

According to psychotherapist, Sherry Jacobson, feeling mentally overwhelmed could be an internal reaction to excessive outside stress. To help cope with this overwhelming feeling. You can journal meditate or practice mindfulness.

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Hey, psychic GOs, depression. When does it creep into your life?

You never know. I first experienced depression in middle school. As a preteen. I naturally wasn't able to tell how my mind was working differently. Probably the most common features in a scenario like that is depression and sadness being somewhat interchangeable terms for you because you haven't learned the difference yet at that age.

In fact, it probably wasn't until my 27th birthday. When I realized how truly separate the two were when I spent a week unable to leave the house, despite being in a pretty great mood and really for two thirds of my life. At that point, I'd only experienced depression in terms of extreme sadness or lethargy in response to an event, usually interpersonal, most of what I've learned about it has come from the past five years as a preteen, I experienced a great deal of depression or sadness as I would call it.

Mainly due to academic social, and presumably hormonal difficulties being a perfect example of your inherent shy kid of the family left me nihilistic. I was often finding ways to try to draw attention to myself passively, of course, because of shyness from drawings and writings to song lyrics. I began to express what I was going through in a number of different.

For the sake of expression. And as a way to prove myself is more capable than the person. I negatively perceived myself to be somewhere between middle school and early high school. I degraded emotionally to a great extent. I began making threats of self-harm and was even pulled out of public school....

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Many psychologists, associate high functioning depression with persistent depressive disorder, which is a prolonged state of depression. Those with high functioning depression may not feel as helpless as those with clinical depression, but their depression does affect tremendously. Their quality of. It minimizes their interest in everything, including social events with friends and family, high functioning depressives will go to school or work and socialize when necessary.

But once they're done with their responsibilities, they'll withdraw themselves. Here's seven signs you may have high functioning depression.

Number one, you're concerned with time, although you're achieving your goals and completing all your tasks, you feel like you're wasting your. Even if you find a new hobby or job, it still feels like a fool's errand.

And you wonder if all the time you're investing into such activities are worth it.

Number two, you constantly criticize yourself because you feel like you're not achieving much. You criticize yourself. Your expectations are too high. So you push yourself to the limit affecting your state of mind.

Number three, you overthink.
It doesn't matter if a situation is big or small, you'll find yourself overthinking it and eventually breaking down.

Number four, you feel misunderstood. Since most high functioning depressives can maintain a job, a house and their responsibilities. People underestimate how much anguish they're going through minimizing their feelings simply because they don't act like the typical depressed person.

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Don't we all hope to understand one another better. How can you get a good idea of what kind of person your new friend or acquaintance is?

If psychology has taught us anything it's that people are complicated. There is no quick and easy way to assess a person's true character and motivations, but there are a few tips and tricks that can help you gain better insight into someone's character. The people around us can give a lot of information about themselves without even knowing it.

They express it in the little things that they do. All you have to do is observe carefully. So here are seven small things that can tell you a lot about a.

One, their body language from posture to facial expressions, to hand gestures. Researchers believe that our body language and nonverbal cues make up to over 65% of all communication interpreting someone's body language can be a powerful tool in helping you to understand their personality, attitudes, and feelings.

For example, facial cues like smiling, convey happiness, borrowed, browsed, denote confusion, and biting at your lip means you're worried, anxious or distressed. Clenched fists indicate anger or frustration crossed. Arms are a sign of defensiveness and fidgeting can mean boredom, impatience, or deep. Learning how to better read someone else's body language can go a long way in helping you understand what someone is thinking. Even if they don't say a word to you.

Two, their social media accounts, a person's profile, and the way they present themselves online can reveal a lot about their personality traits and interest, including the way in which they want to be seen. And their social media presence shows how connected they want to be while their privacy setting shows how much they're comfortable sharing with.

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Are humans naturally good or naturally evil?

People have been asking this question for thousands of years and the answer is still unclear, but we know more about human nature now than ever before. Here are 13 secret facts about human nature to help you decide for yourself, are humans good or evil by nature?

1:  We make harsh assumptions.

When someone does a bad thing, you assume they're a bad person, but when you do the same thing, you blame your environment. Instead of yourself, this is called actor observer asymmetry, and it's a fundamental part of human nature. We make false attribution about others while cutting ourselves. Plenty of slack.

2: We enjoy distress sometimes.

Our humans cruel by nature, according to a 2013 study by Rudolph and others, humans relish the distress of other humans, but only if we think they deserve it, imagine a super villain getting beat up by a superhero. We enjoy watching this character suffer because they did something bad.

But what if the villain was attacking the hero? We judge that hero as morally good, instead of pleasure, we would feel anger or pain. So yes, we do enjoy the suffering of others, but only under the right circumstances.

3: We ignore facts. What's the best way to make an argument. Most people think facts and figures are the most compelling points out there.

To be continued...