by EAP Assist | Jan 12, 2021 | Employee Assistance Program
Now more than ever, finding joy in your day-to-day experiences can improve your quality of life and enhance and protect your mental health. As many of us are mired in intense and heavy information from the news and social media, financial instability and political and...
by EAP Assist | Jan 12, 2021 | Employee Assistance Program
A new study of 1,100 young adults who were surveyed found that those who slept well, did more exercise and ate better were more likely to be flourishing mentally. Out of these, quality sleep was most strongly linked to better mental health, followed by exercise and...
by EAP Assist | Dec 10, 2020 | Employee Assistance Program
$220 billion is what mental illness and suicide costs the Australian economy every year according to the Productivity Commission’s recent mental health inquiry report. The report estimates the direct cost to the economy is between $43 and $70 billion with an...
by EAP Assist | Dec 9, 2020 | Employee Assistance Program
Cognitive restructuring is a useful technique for understanding unhappy feelings and moods, and for challenging the sometimes-wrong “automatic beliefs” that can lie behind them. As such, you can use it to reframe the unnecessary negative thinking that we...
by EAP Assist | Dec 2, 2020 | Employee Assistance Program
Meeting five of the criteria of the Internet Addiction Diagnostic Questionnaire (IADQ) below means you may be addicted: Do you feel preoccupied with the Internet (think about previous online activity or anticipate next online session)?Do you feel the need to use the...
by EAP Assist | Dec 1, 2020 | Employee Assistance Program
Many people experience panic attacks with the signs and symptoms of an episode appearing quickly and sometimes without warning. These sudden attacks of anxiety and overwhelming fear can happen to anyone and are known to be somewhat unpredictable, generally occurring...
