In addition to helping you articulate your feelings and emotions, individual therapy can actually help you recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Here’s how.
When most people think of the word “cure,” they mean that an illness or ailment is gone forever. Because it is considered a chronic condition, mental illness doesn’t work that way. But there’s hope.
Living with traumatic stress can make you highly reactive, constantly stressed, incredibly anxious, impulsive, and irrational at times. All of these changes are symptoms that occur because of the way traumatic stress affects the brain.
Stress, distressing emotions, and unexpected challenges can easily affect your mental well-being, but there’s hope. Small daily lifestyle changes can help enhance your mental health.
When individuals misuse benzodiazepines, use them for an extended period of time, or consume the substances recreationally, the medications can negatively affect the brain. Here’s how.
Despite the advantages of opioids, individuals taking opioids medically or recreationally should know that misusing these drugs can affect the brain. Here’s how.
Individuals living with clinical depression don’t recover from their feelings of hopelessness and sadness as easily. This is because clinical depression can physically change the brain. Here’s how.