Does Heat Affect Bipolar Disorder?
Though summer brings more sunshine and opportunities for vacation and outdoor recreation, it can be a challenging season for people living with mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder. [...]
PTSD Symptoms
Trauma’s effects can be long-lasting, changing your mood, behavior and ability to trust others. After terrifying or life-threatening experiences, millions of people develop a mental health condition called post-traumatic [...]
Developing Mental Health Awareness with Emotional Intelligence
May brings National Mental Health Awareness Month, and this reminds each of us to take a moment and reflect on our own mental health. Reconnecting to our emotional state [...]
Amphetamine Dependence and Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes dramatic, uncontrollable mood swings. People with this condition alternate between bouts of mania and depression, which can disrupt sleep, energy levels, [...]
Drugs Causing Suicidal & Homicidal Ideation
Experiencing violent intrusive thoughts is a frightening sensation, particularly when it comes to substance use disorder. Whether these uninvited musings are about suicide (suicidal ideation) or homicide (homicidal ideation), [...]
Getting Mental Health Treatment for Your Adult Child
Watching your child go through a mental health crisis can be difficult and heartbreaking, even after they've left the nest. There’s often a sense of helplessness involved, especially if [...]
Protecting Children’s Mental Health
As a parent, you instinctively want to shield your child from hardships, which is why it can be hard to accept the fact that children are not always happy. [...]
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship
Trust is an essential element of any healthy relationship, but it’s also something you must actively work to maintain. If you’ve done something to erode a stable foundation of [...]
Anxiety and Motherhood
If you are one of the millions of women living with an anxiety disorder, you may wonder whether you are capable of coping with the additional challenges associated with [...]
A Primer on Narcissism
There’s Me and There’s Me “That didn’t happen.And if it did, I didn’t do it.And if I did, it wasn’t that bad.And if it was, it wasn’t my fault.And if [...]
How to Spot a Narcissist
Making new friends or testing the waters in a romantic relationship usually involves a “feeling-out” period. You want to get to know each other and understand whether you’re compatible [...]
Seize the Holidays
With this holiday season in full swing, it can also mean added stressors as the whirlwind of our year cascades with back to back holidays. It is always a [...]
