Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression. It happens during certain seasons of the year—most often fall or winter. It is thought that shorter days and less daylight may...
How Mindfulness Can Help Mental Health?
What Is Mindfulness? So often, we move through our days in a hurry, focused on all the urgent tasks and responsibilities to fulfill. Our minds are either stuck in the past or worried about the future. As a result, we live on autopilot, disconnected from the present...
Personality Disorders – What are they and how can they be treated?
According to Jack Drescher, M.D., at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), personality is the way of thinking, feeling, and behaving that makes a person different from other people. An individual’s personality is influenced by experiences, environment...
Sport psychologists and Mental Health
What is Sport Psychology? According to Irene Lopez at WebMD, in simple terms, sport psychology studies how psychological factors affect athletic performance. Sport psychologists also look at how taking part in sports, exercise, and other physical activities affects...
How Do Trauma-Based Therapies Work?
Trauma-based therapy (also known as trauma-focused therapy) is an effective treatment for individuals with a history of trauma, such as those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma-focused therapies use experiential, cognitive, and behavioral techniques to...
Understanding Impulse-Control Disorders
Impulsivity refers to a tendency to respond hastily to internal or external cues. For instance, impulsive people tend to speak as soon as a thought occurs to them. Or to purchase an item immediately and spontaneously, with little internal debate about the quality,...
Dual Diagnosis: Mental Health and Addiction
According to Luna Greenstein at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), as intuitive as the term “dual diagnosis” may seem, it actually doesn’t mean having two mental health conditions. Dual diagnosis (also referred to as a co-occurring disorder) is a term...
Recognizing and Treating Trauma in Children
Young children are particularly vulnerable to trauma. For instance, compared to other age groups, children younger than four years of age have among the highest rates of nonfatal injuries (e.g., falls, drownings, poisonings, burns). Furthermore, over half of child...
Dementia and Mental Health
According to the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), dementia is a term used to describe a range of conditions that affect the brain. It’s caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, or by a series of strokes. Dementia mainly affects people over 65,...Contact us
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