Learn about Mental Health and Coping Strategies
It is said that nearly one in twenty adults in the United States of America have some or the other degree of mental health issues. While for most of us it could range from common phobias and fears, others could have more serious problems. But not everybody will readily admit that they need professional counseling […]
Long before anyone knew what ADHD was, I was living with it. Both of my brothers had it, but they were just considered ‘bad kids’ and my mother was told to keep them in line. Years later, my youngest brother was diagnosed with this condition, and suddenly everything my mother had gone through seemed to […]
Depression, as the single most common for of mental illness out there and one of the most debilitating, can make living a normal life a losing struggle. Though everyone will have some amount of depression in their lives, some people have a physical condition that results in unmanageable amounts of depression even when there is […]
Alzheimers Disease is difficult for any family to deal with. When I was married over 15 years ago, my Father-In-Law was a joke telling, happy go lucky card playing person. We didn’t understand at first what started happening to him. At first, we thought it was just part of getting older. He would forget what […]
One of the first things to keep in mind when you are seeking information on schizophrenia for yourself or for loved ones is that schizophrenia is considered a psychosis; and unlike neuroses, wherein a sufferer can have many or most or all of the “symptoms”, with a psychosis, the patient has ALL of the symptoms. […]
There are many mental illnesses that affect the people around us. Some of them are apparent during childhood and others are not detected until adulthood. Many mental illnesses are hereditary and others can be brought on through the use of drugs or through a traumatic head injury. Many people do not understand that mental illness […]
Dual diagnosis refers to people that have been diagnosed with a mental illness in addition to a chemical dependency of some kind. A chemical dependency makes treating mental illness more difficult, and likewise having a mental illness makes addiction treatment more complicated. Dual diagnosis treatment is of course more intensive than normal chemical dependency or […]
