Alcohol is a legal and widely available substance, so it might be surprising for you to hear that alcohol withdrawals can be quite serious—even fatal—for some people. While the withdrawal...
Survivor’s guilt is very common for those who have gone through a traumatic experience or are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This type of guilt often manifests in situations...
The mind is a mysterious thing. The average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, and many of the thoughts that pop into our heads are unexpected. Those...
Substance use disorder often brings a person very low in terms of how they see themselves and how they present to the world around them. It can cause someone to...
Abuse can take on many forms, and one of the most complex types is gaslighting. Gaslighting is a type of abusive manipulation that can take a huge toll on a...
Most people think about anxiety and depression when mental illness is mentioned because these are two of the most common conditions. Another very common but underrecognized mental illness is obsessive-compulsive...
There are many types of therapy currently in practice, and some sound very similar. For example, cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, and dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, have many aspects...
Addiction has been a problem in America for quite some time now. Between the Opioid Epidemic and COVID-19, the situation is more grim than ever; overdose deaths, rates of alcoholism,...
Depending on which substances they are using, a medical detox program is necessary for many people. The unfortunate truth is that many of the most addictive substances cause withdrawal symptoms....
