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Mental-Health Blog for Ottawa Adults
Explore reflections on navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationships—along with practical strategies and therapeutic insights to support your personal journey and self-understanding.

March 27, 2025
This blog post from March 2025 explores emotional dysregulation as a significant challenge for individuals with ADHD, going beyond common understandings of attention and focus difficulties. It explains how brain differences in ADHD contribute to intensified emotional reactions, difficulty shifting moods, and impulsive responses, including rejection sensitivity. The guide identifies common triggers for mood swings such as stress, lack of sleep, and criticism. Finally, it offers practical management strategies encompassing emotional awareness, coping techniques, establishing routines, exercise, sleep hygiene, and seeking support, while also recommending professional therapy for more significant difficulties.

March 27, 2025
Building a happy, fulfilling relationship takes work, and one of the most important things you can do is set clear, healthy boundaries. Boundaries help both partners feel respected, understood, and emotionally safe. In this article, we’ll explore what healthy boundaries look like, why they matter, and how you can set them in your own relationship.