Loving someone with depression is challenging, especially when you are unable to help them. It can be frustrating when your partner is not just depressed, but due to depression is irritable, angry, or withdrawn. There are many ways to support a...
The effects of intergenerational trauma may be unseen to people in a family dynamic for quite some time. Once a person sees it for what it is, it is hard to go back and unsee it. Addiction can especially run in families as a behavioral pattern that...
When someone is compulsively trying to fix someone, it can have a devastating impact on the entire family. In recovery, this behavior might grow stronger with a desire to help people who seem to need lots of help. It is not anyone else’s job to fix...
Addiction is something people still do not want to talk about; mental health even less so. Those with addiction are seen as making poor choices and causing harm to loved ones. Substance use disorder can greatly impact a person’s life, including...
High-functioning depression does not look like how people think. It is more than just getting through the day. People who struggle often look like they are thriving at work and in their personal lives. From the outside, they are able to keep up...
Even when you spend time thinking about recovery and about the past, that doesn’t necessarily mean you will have anxious thoughts. It can come from many different things, including medication changes, recovery from drugs or alcohol, and just...
Stress seems to be part of life for so many people now. When it used to be something people could feel on and off throughout the course of their week, now it is ever present and creeping into everything. The feelings of stress have become how...
When people seek treatment for addiction, they likely are going to need mental health assessment to see if anything else shows up needing support. Many adults do not realize they have mental health issues, including ADHD and will go undiagnosed,...
If you procrastinate, you likely have a difficult time staying on task and getting things done. Maybe you postpone, delay, and even put things off so long you cannot possibly finish it in time. This may be affecting your work, home, family,...
Hallucinations are no laughing matter. They are a challenge for people who struggle with them. They involve seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or experiencing something sensory that is not there. There is no physical reason why people experience...
