Trying to get a good night sleep can become an expensive challenge. There is no need to break the bank in order to catch some Z’s. Keeping A Clean Room Nothing about cleaning your room sounds relaxing. After dealing with… Read More ›
Category: Mental Health
What Are Ways To Stay Calm During High Stress?
Stress is the number one trigger for relapse in both primary mental health disorders and substance use disorders. Interestingly, the brain likes stress. The brain is more prone to notice and adapt to negativity in its environment than it is… Read More ›
Tips For Grieving The Loss Of Your Addiction
Drugs and alcohol can feel like our only friends at the end of our addiction. Having isolated ourselves in some way to our addictions, drugs and alcohol were what we had left. Even if our worlds were full, our hearts… Read More ›
What Are The Facts About Anxiety?
Anxiety is different from stress. Living with anxiety means living with a mental health condition in which you experience the burden of a persistently overwhelming sense of worrying. Stress can cause anxiety and vice versa. Meeting the symptoms of a… Read More ›
Setting Healthy Boundaries Isn’t Hard To Do
Boundaries are a foreign concept to many people. What does it mean to set healthy boundaries in your relationships with other people? Isn’t it a bit awkward to say this is what can be and this is what can’t be,… Read More ›
Can Someone Recover From Narcissism?
Recovery from mental health sounds odd to some people. Are mental health disorders things that go away in the brain or do they live on like cancers in remission? Relapse is a word commonly used for the treatment of depression,… Read More ›
3 Things You Need To Know About Self-Harm
What would you do if you were convinced you couldn’t feel any pain? You were so numb and anesthetized to any kind of sensation that you felt completely shut down from your ability to feel and experience. You might think… Read More ›
Disorder Or Illness? Why Does It Matter What We Call Mental Health?
Is it a mental health condition or a mental illness? A mental disorder or a brain disorder? Should the way we describe mental health make a difference in how a condition, disorder, or illness is treated? More importantly, should the… Read More ›
Why The Attachment Of Toxic Romantic Relationships Can Be A Detriment To Recovery
You’re always connected to someone you love. This is as much a literal fact in the brain as it is a philosophical fact for getting through a breakup. No, you’ll never forget someone you fell in love with and developed… Read More ›
Addiction Requires Assessment Not Arrests
The ideology that addicts are criminals and need to be punished for their crime is thankfully fading away. Increasingly, the much more accurate ideology that people who struggle with addiction are living with an untreated mental health disorder is taking… Read More ›