Drug abuse is a big problem plaguing us today. Not only does it cause the addict to waste away physically and destroy his or her life, but it also becomes a traumatizing part of the lives of their families and friends. Counseling for the loved ones of the drug user is highly recommended.
Eclipsing the Mind: The Most Common Mental Health Disorders Today
The percentage of the population that is developing mental illness is alarmingly high. According to recent statistics, the most common mental health problems are depression, Alzheimer’s, bi-polar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Coping With The Trauma Of Sexual Abuse
No matter what race, religion and economic status, children are getting sexually abused. And its effects don’t stop until the child grows through adolescence and into adulthood. Healing may not come easy, but it is possible to regain a sense of wholeness once again.
Credit Counseling: A Path to Financial Freedom
The article deals with the issue of consumer debt and how it contributes to stress and anxiety. Many people have run into debt due to overspending, financial illiteracy, and even because of deep, emotional and psychological problems that manifest as social insecurity or status anxiety. Discussion about the link of emotional distress caused by financial woes lead to physical illness. The article also briefly cites some reasons why many people incur enormous amounts of debt and the value of getting credit counseling as a financial education and debt reduction strategy.
Depression and Food Binging in the Family
This article focuses on eating disorders of women and how they are closely related to family problems, negative emotions, and depression. A lot of young girls experience this and is more prone to such eating disorders. With self help and counseling, any girl can control their way of eating in to a much more healthier way.
Can You Catch Insanity?
While there is nothing but anecdotal evidence and speculation from untrained people to support the theory, there are some that believe people can develop mental illness due to prolonged exposure to the insane. This is strictly speculation and there are no studies to back it up, but there are some experts that claim it might actually be possible, given the right combination of factors.
Children in need, not misdeed
Child maltreatment is a behavior toward a child that is outside the norms of conduct and entails substantial risk of causing physical or emotional harm. Research indicates that without some form of intervention against child maltreatment, the long-term consequences for children can be nightmares, feeling of insecurity, feeling unsafe, poor school performance and low self-esteem. They are also more likely to be abusive or become victims of abuse themselves.
Combining Talk Therapy and Antidepressant Medication
Most experts believe that antidepressant medication is not the only effective way to cure depression. New findings about talk therapy called cognitive behavior therapy appears to cancel the risk of suicidal thinking or behavior associated with taking antidepressant medication.
Be Emotionally Healthy And Live A Colorful Life!
Promoting emotional health is necessary to achieve optimum health. It requires a multi-dimensional approach such as counseling, anger management, meditation and physical exercise. As many people and physicians focus on physical health, emotional health is also of prime importance.
Binge Drinking: A Sober Risk for Teenagers
When it comes to heavy drinking, the phrase “binge drinking” comes to mind. It used to mean heavy drinking that lasted for days, now, the meaning has changed. To most people, binge drinking brings to mind self-destruction and unrestrained drinking bout lasting for at least a couple of days.
Boost Your Self-Esteem and Believe You Can!
Feeling good about yourself is important as it gives you a sense of control over your life. In recent times low self-esteem has been one of the most popular and frequently invoked psychological explanations for behavioral and social problems. This article provides ways in learning to increase self-esteem.
Break Free from Drug Addiction
Drug-addiction is a problem ever since. Statistics of drug addiction are very alarming. However, there are treatments and help an addicted person can go to and find ways to cope with this problem and as such breaking a drug addiction may be difficult, but not impossible.