The negative symptoms of a mental illness can be overwhelming. Sometimes people are diagnosed at an early age, but oftentimes people discover that they have a mental illness as they get older. As one enters recovery, treatment is individualized and… Read More ›
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Is Motivational Enhancement Therapy the Best Relapse Prevention?
There are several types of treatment and prevention models that are used in healthcare facilities. Motivational enhancement therapy (MET) is a counseling approach designed to assist individuals with their uncertainty around treatment and stopping their use of drugs. In motivational… Read More ›
Why is an individualized treatment plan important for treatment?
Treatment is a journey that not all individuals experience with similar thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. In order to plan the best course of treatment for an individual, how a person processes thoughts, expresses emotions, or views, recovery needs to be… Read More ›
Why Is Art Therapy Used In Treatment?
Mental health disorders can be considered fatal. For example, anorexia nervosa is considered the “deadliest” mental health disorder. Substance use disorders are also considered deadly as they are relapsing and remitting diseases which include the use of chemical substances which… Read More ›
What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy is rapidly becoming the “wonder therapy” of the treatment world. Mental disorders, physical disorders, even social disorders are being helped by regular cognitive behavioral therapy. The therapy method is so effective that programmers have “taught” AI “bots”… Read More ›
Depression And Heart Attack Related, Dangerous
According to the American Heart Association, one out of every five people who are hospitalized for either a heart attack or chest pain will develop depression. These patients don’t experience post-surgical depression or passing depression. Major depression is four times… Read More ›
What Do I Need To Know About Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline personality disorder is a difficult personality disorder to understand. The shifting moods, perspectives, boundaries, behaviors, and often times personalities can be challenging for a loved one to understand. Borderline Personality Disorder Can… Read More ›
How Can Depression Be Treated?
Depression is a mood disorder, a scientific, clinically proven mental health disorder. Depression is also a matter of feelings. Though all mental health conditions live in the brain, they also seem… Read More ›
Why Do People With Phobias Need Treatment?
Everyone is afraid of something. If they aren’t afraid, they are definitely made uneasy by the idea of a certain object, experience, sight, smell, sound, or anything else they develop a… Read More ›
Can Sex Addicts In Recovery Still Have Sex?
Sex addicts in recovery from sex addiction can still continue to have sex in their recovery. Sex addiction recovery does include abstinence. Many treatment programs and twelve step programs advocate abstinence for at least six months. What that abstinence entails,… Read More ›