Today is back to the future day and felt it is an appropriate time to discuss looking to the past to help heal your mind and alter your future. In this blog post we discuss why looking to past hurts and opening them to be dealt with and how to do it successfully can help…
Depression symptoms can be different from person to person but did you know depression symptoms can also vary depending on your gender? It is good to have a basic understanding of this and to know what the symptoms are so that if you see your friends and loved ones acting a bit unusual then you…
Today is Mental Health Awareness day and I think now is the perfect time to talk about what path led me to creating Battle of Mind; what I have experienced in my life that led to a complete breakdown, being clinically diagnosed at high risk of suicide, not wanting to not be alive in 2011…
At Battle of Mind we believe strongly in the use of the arts to help alleviate feelings of depression and anxiety and music was one great tool that helped the founder of BoM find his way through the minefield that is depression. In this post we discuss the idea of creating music playlists to help…
There are many factors to consider when talking about how long it takes to heal from depression and there is no average ratio for each person’s journey due to having varying levels of depression and anxiety for different reasons that often makes it challenging, if not impossible, to gauge a particular time frame for healing. Healing from depression can need to take…
Sleeping is a great tool for healing a lot of mental illness particularly after a bad breakdown. When your mind is full of too many thoughts, particularly of a negative variety, sleeping can really help. Ensuring you get a good night’s sleep each evening is vitally important for the way you feel when you wake up.…
When we fail, we feel like giving up. The pain that comes with failure is terrible and if you fail again…and again…and again the pain just grows and you feel like you will never succeed. In this video, we discuss famous people who never let anyone tell them they had failed and kept trying their…
There is an old saying you are what you eat and if you feed your body junk food or too much sugar then you are not going to help yourself escape depression. In this blog post, we discuss 10 foods that can help you improve your mood, emotions, and mental health. It is recommended to…
Many believe that music has no benefit than simply to entertain us or create an ambience. Although true, it isn’t the complete picture. Music, can in fact be a great tool for managing our emotions in many of our daily lives. Positive music helps depression. In this blog post we discuss music, its affect on…
Change, no one likes change. For many, it may be one of the most difficult experiences to experience and will be avoided at all costs but is precisely on creating change that can make life more worthwhile and also break barriers that are keeping us from moving forward. In this blog post we are going…