Our expert Robert Weiss, MSW, C-SAT, who has a regular blog on Huffington Post, published a fascinating read on the changing way young people interact, relate, and date in the digital age. In “Love, Digital Style: The New Generation Gap,” Weiss discusses how intimacy, expectations, and roles have changed as the younger generation communicates more …
Addiction can be devastating to every aspect of your life. Your addiction may have damaged your career, your education, or even your physical health. More importantly though, your addiction may have broken many of your relationships, interaction you may be depending on now to help you in your sobriety. Depending on how long you were …
As we enter the colder months, a lot of people get blue from the lack of sunlight that occurs during this season. Scientists from John Hopkins University set out to better understand the effects of depression on mice in the hopes that it would tell them something about how the disorder impacts humans.
Trazodone, also marketed as Desyrel, Beneficat, Deprax, Oleptro, and other brand names, is an atypical antidepressant with FDA approval for the treatment of depression and sleep disorders (primarily insomnia but also disturbances such as night terrors and nightmares). This medication is chemically similar to the other better known atypical antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft …
While depression, or major depressive disorder, is a condition that has likely existed throughout human history, depression-specific treatments are relatively new. For centuries, the medical world was not able to successfully distinguish between different kinds of mental illness. Once depression was isolated as a unique disorder, science was able to begin developing treatment options that …
Rehab treatment programs are valuable tools for overcoming addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. They provide the opportunity to finally break free and start over to the person caught in a desperate cycle of substance abuse. Rehab treatment also offers hope and renewal for all of the people immediately surrounding the abuser as well, because addiction …
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Bullying is an increasingly difficult problem in our world today. The British press is reporting that up to 65 percent of those diagnosed with an eating disorder say that bullying was a strong contributing factor. That rather astonishing figure represents a more than 40 percent increase of similar survey results from as recently as 2009. …
Talking about portrayals of gender in the media has gained in popularity recently, and advocates from every political arena have begun to weigh in on issues of gender representation. People often jump to rap or hip-hop videos when discussing gender in music, but it is far from the only genre that plays host to troublesome …
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventor (1706-1790) When we’re traveling along a road and come upon a roadblock, what do we do? It may be that we failed to exercise sufficient planning to learn whether or not there was any construction going on along …
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health condition springing from exposure to a traumatizing life event. The anxiety disorder is hallmarked by symptoms of avoidance, emotional numbness, hyper arousal and occasions of re-living the traumatic event. A review study, due for publication in this month’s issue of the Psychological Bulletin, says that women …