• How Nutrition Can Positively or Negatively Affect Your Mental Health

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    What recovery practices come to mind when you see or hear the phrase, “mental health”? Maybe you think of traditional modalities like counseling and behavioral [...]

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    A Lonely Person’s Guide to Fostering Joy This Holiday Season

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    Even the most joyful holiday can be tinged with sadness, and even in a crowd of people, you can still feel entirely alone.  Sometimes the [...]

  • Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health: What to Expect During a Day of Treatment

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    If you’ve ever switched schools or moved somewhere new, you understand the anxious feeling of starting treatment for the first time. A new environment, new [...]

  • How the 5 Stages of Grief Affects Your Mental Health

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    Letting go of someone you love can be one of the most painful, challenging, and stressful things we, as people, must experience in this lifetime. [...]

  • Sustainable Recovery for Bipolar Disorder

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    Living with bipolar disorder can be an isolating experience, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, [...]

  • Finding Balance With Your Emotions

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    Living an emotional life is part of being human. Still, there seems to be a split between camps: those who overemphasize the role of emotions [...]

  • Your Lifestyle Can Boost Mental Health

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    In this busy and restless age, it’s more important than ever to pay a little extra attention to our mental health. When burnout, exhaustion, and [...]

  • How Does Childhood Trauma Affect Adulthood?

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    It's a fact of life that our childhood experiences shape who we are as adults. The language we learned, the neighborhood we lived in, the [...]

  • What Can I Do for Sexual Assault Victims?

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    We all want to help our friends when they struggle or need support. Maybe you’ve helped a friend move from one apartment to another or [...]

  • What Does PTSD Recovery Look Like?

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur in any individual following the experience of intense distress. Often, PTSD is associated with veterans who have lived through [...]

  • Your Guide for How to Help Someone with Body Dysmorphia

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    No one wants to see a friend suffer. When you have a loved one who is challenged by body dysmorphic disorder, you may feel helpless watching [...]

  • Is Mental Illness Hereditary?

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    Can Mental Illness Be Passed Down? Mental illness can sometimes run in families. Those who have a family member with mental illness may be slightly [...]

  • Knowing When to Seek PTSD Treatment

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    Like other mental health disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) looks different from person to person. Many may experience the same traumatic situation, but many might [...]

  • What Is a Dehydration Headache?

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    Dehydration headaches are one of the most common types of headaches because they can affect anyone, but they’re not described often in the medical literature. [...]

  • Show Yourself Some Love with Self-Care

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    Showing Yourself Some Appreciation With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love is in the air! What better time than now to show yourself a little [...]

  • Positive Affirmations for Self Love

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    Building a Healthier Self-Image with Positive Affirmations As the saying goes, we are our own worst critics—but with a shift in perspective, we can learn [...]