Here’s where you can read about feelings: created by our brains and endocrine systems in response to the rest of our bodies, our memories, and our lives in the world. All kinds of emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, sympathy, affection, embarrassment, envy, love – can be in play with our experiences of ourselves, sex, sexuality and relationships. Gaining awareness, acceptance and understanding of our feelings can be central to living with them and navigating things like mental illness and emotional wellbeing.
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Articles and Advice in this area:
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- Sofia P.
The sexually-intrusive thought that came with my OCD tried to take over. Therapy helped me find empathy for myself — and others.
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- Sassafras Patterdale
Everyone’s situation of being kicked out is going to be different, but here are ten things for anyone to do to help prepare yourself if you think or know you’re going to get kicked out.
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- Lisa Laman
If I could pull a “Letter to Me”… what would I communicate to teenage Lisa? What important thoughts about dating, relationships, life, and anything else would I say to my younger self in a letter?
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- Sam Wall
You’ve asked a lot of big questions here, which means I have some big answers for you. This is going to take a minute, so you may want to find somewhere comfy to settle in while you read. Before we get into anything else, I want to say that if you’re regularly self-harming, or fear that you might…
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- Jacob Mirzaian
Sorry-not-sorry, but this sucks! I know it and you know it; maybe it’d be best if we let it show.
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- Kathleen Farmilo
Freedom is one of the most wonderful parts of being single. But for me, it’s too easy to get trapped in that. My instinct is to throw myself into new experiences and new people. Instead of embracing freedom, I’ve come to realise that this is me running from it. This is why lockdown has been a strangely empowering experience for me.
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- Sam Wall
I chose this question because so many of us are in this crummy, leaking, barely steerable boat right now. Three things in particular jumped out at me about your question, because I’m seeing them in other Scarleteen users, my social media channels, and my friend circles: loneliness, lack of purpose…
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- Mary Maxfield Brave
Some tips and a lot of support for thinking through how you might best care for yourself in this new era of social distance.
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- Heather Corinna
- the Scarleteam
Just like we do when there’s not a global pandemic, all of us here at Scarleteen have been thinking a whole lot about all of you lately. Here are some updates about our services and some extra support we can offer, as well as some helps, tips and words from some of our staff to you to help get you through this.
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- Caroline Reilly
We are living in a time where death and loss are everywhere we look and is a part of so many of our lives, often before we think it will be. Here’s some talk with The Order of The Good Death’s Sarah Chavez about death positivity – what it is, what that means, and who it can help – and how young people can better understand death, can better talk to each other about it and support each another through it.
