The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
Doomscrolling on TikTok: What It Does to Your Nervous System
Doomscrolling on TikTok may feel harmless, but the constant stream of high-intensity videos can overstimulate your nervous system, increase anxiety, and quietly drain your emotional resilience. In this article, we explore how TikTok’s design affects your brain, why it’s so hard to stop scrolling, and how to protect your mental health—especially if you’re already navigating stress, anxiety, or depression.
Caffeine Addiction Is Real—Here’s How to Break the Cycle
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world—but when does your morning pick-me-up turn into a mental health setback? In this blog, we break down how caffeine addiction contributes to anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and burnout—and share actionable strategies to break the cycle for good.
How Long to Rewire Brain from Addiction
Addiction is a complex phenomenon that significantly disrupts the brain's carefully balanced system of reward, motivation, and regulation. It primarily interferes with the normal functioning of key neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine is often associated with feelings of pleasure and reward, while serotonin plays a critical role in mood regulation. The imbalance produced by addiction in these neurotransmitter systems has profound effects on an individual's behavior, decision-making processes, memory, and other cognitive functions.
Fall, Then Stand: What To Do When You Relapse
At some point, whether you’ve been sober days, weeks, months, or even years, there’s still always the chance of relapse, and it can happen to anyone in recovery at any time.