Mental Health

Quarter Life Crisis?

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Apr 10, 2012 in Budget, Health, Life, Mental Health, Physical Health | 2 comments

I quit my job last week. The short of it is that I’ve been struggling with lots of ups and downs (depression? Maybe. I’m not a fan of labels). I couldn’t get out of bed. I wasn’t doing my job (I worked from home on contract so I get paid if I complete the job, [...]

Salma Hayek Confesses: “I suffered from acne and depression”

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Apr 6, 2012 in Acne, Mental Health | 0 comments

I think this is the first time I have ever seen an A-list celebrity (or any celebrity, for that matter) speak at any length about their emotional struggles with acne (though, as I mention below, I still wanted more). Sure, we’ve heard tid bits from Cameron Diaz and Kiera Knightly, but this is definitely the [...]

Video: I figured out how to see a naturopath for free!!!

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Jan 31, 2012 in Acne, Budget, Health, Mental Health, Sleep, Video | 1 comment

… I know… I was shocked too. So exciting! The one I went to is the teaching clinic of the Endeavour College of Natural Medicine. If you live in Australia, Endeavour has clinics all over the country so check out their website for details. http://www.endeavour.edu.au/ The main thing is you have to be comfortable with [...]

The Skinny on Beauty

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Jan 25, 2012 in Beauty, Girl Stuff, Health, Self-esteem | 2 comments

The problem with society’s portrayal of beauty isn’t that it depicts skinny as beautiful, it’s that it singles out skinny as beautiful. But in order to try to fix this problem, many go in the complete opposite direction, stating that skinny is not, in fact, beautiful, or at least, the most beautiful. But why does curvy have [...]

Mood Enhancer: Hide yo kids, hide yo wife

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Jan 20, 2012 in Mood enhancer, Photo | 0 comments

Antoine Dogson Hide yo kids, hide yo wife

Orthorexia Nervosa – Taking Healthy Eating to the Extreme

Posted by SweetHealthNut on Dec 21, 2011 in Acne, Food, Health, Mental Health | 0 comments

The following is a post that I made in February of 2011 on my Tumblr account. I wrote this when I was heading in the direction of a food and health obsession. Everything I wrote is still accurate and relevant, except my emotional and mental connection to eating has changed since then. I no longer [...]