Singer Elle King Talks PTSD
Recently the 27 year old singer and daughter of comedian Rob Schneider opened up about her recent struggles with post traumatic stress disorder and depression. Using her public instagram account, Elle King posted a photo along with some lengthy text discussing her decision to seek mental health treatment for her issues. In the post she…
Shia LeBeouf’s Arrest and Apology
Actor Shia LeBeouf recently took to Twitter to post a public apology following a drunken confrontation with police in Georgia over the weekend. He was arrested for suspicion of obstruction, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. A video has circulated the internet in which LeBeouf goes on a tirade against the police even speaking in profanities…
Where Addiction & Mental Health Intersect
When someone develops an addiction, it is rarely due to the addictiveness of the substance alone. While physical dependency plays a role in drug addiction, there are a wide range of other factors that make a significant contribution to whether or not someone will struggle with abuse. Genetic factors, cultural environment, and social influences all…
Changing Obsessive Behavior to Healthy Behavior
Obsessive behavior is most commonly associated with obsessive compulsive behavior (OCD), a mental health condition in which a person is overly anxious about something which they believe their behavior can control. However, many of the signs of OCD have been linked with a variety of other disorders, including anxiety, eating disorders, addiction, and more. Even…
Addiction & Alcoholism Fuel Mental Health Issues
Addiction and alcoholism and mental health issues have a close relationship with one another. Many people who suffer from mental health conditions (such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, or anxiety) turn to alcohol or drugs to self-medicate. Alternatively, the chemical changes in the brain caused by drugs and alcohol can cause mental…
5 Tips for Gaining Peace and Serenity
Finding peace and serenity can be challenging in today’s hectic world for the average person. People have to work, maintain a home, exercise, and do all these things while trying to find balance. Although it may seem like there’s no time to try to find balance in your life, in fact it can be achieved….
The Ties Between Mental Health and Addiction
Advancements in treatments for substance abuse have shown that mental health and addiction are tightly knit together. This has led to greater understanding both on the origins of addiction and the most effective ways to treat these issues. Addiction treatment professionals now realize that substance abuse and mental health issues should be treated at the…
Admitting You Have a Problem is a Sign of Strength
A common belief in Alcoholics Anonymous is that admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery. And for any addiction, not just alcoholism, this belief rings true. Sometimes a person who has developed a problem with alcohol or drugs won’t admit that the use has crossed the line to addiction. One of…
Bipolar Disorder Patients Activate Reward Centers More
Addiction professionals have become more aware of how psychological disorders negatively affect people’s tendencies towards addiction. Instead of being treated as separate issues, psychological issues and addiction need to be treated concurrently and are called co-occurring disorders or a dual diagnosis. One of the most common psychological problems that addicts have to deal with is…
Trauma Therapy Is Beneficial to Those in Recovery
The disease of addiction causes so much collateral in someone’s life that it is hard to gauge it all completely at first. The process of inventorying the damage that an addiction has caused sometimes takes a lifetime. It pretty much starts immediately, as well, once and addiction begins to form. The early stages of an…