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[THREAD]Oftentimes in clinical psych, many people wonder is it genetic or environmental? We can’t really answer that because those two don’t exist separately from one another. Genes need an environment to activate and we now know the environment can also activate genes through
epigenesis. Also, we suspect that there are genes involved in mental health but for the most part we haven’t identified them yet. We can look at family history but that can also be either genetic or environmental. We all have our risks and protective factors that can make us
vulnerable to mental health issues. Each one of us will have different risks and different protective factors. That’s why it is hard to simplify mental health to genetic, environmental or situational. We can’t separate them!
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[THREAD] As my generation (millennials) is getting ready to have kids or already has young kids, how can we be better parents and spare our kids some of trauma we may have experienced growing up? Well, let’s start with the most important. We need to go to therapy. Without
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[THREAD] I want to dedicate a whole thread to self-esteem and self-efficacy. Self-esteem is an evaluation of our own worth whereas self-efficacy is an evaluation of how well we can accomplish take and work. Whenever our mental health suffers, both of these tend to also
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Trigger warning: abuse

This is a long overdue thread. We are going to talk about coping from abuse during the pandemic, where we may be locked down with abusers, whether they are parents or partners. Given that the leaving option may be put on hold because of the pandemic, we
will focus on coping. First of all, it is important to have a safe space, whether it is your room or any designated space that you enjoy, where you can retreat and recentre. This space should be the one that the abuser least goes to. Another very important point is to not be
isolated. Reach out to as many people as possible, let them know what is going on. The abuse is at its worst when the abuser knows that the survivor is isolated and has no outside support. This is when control is optimal for an abuser. The more allies you have on the outside, the
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