New Gene Variant Can Protect People From Alcoholism
Drinking alcohol involves breaking down the ethanol to get the chemical out of our body. If we drink too much alcohol, the body has a hard time breaking it down. This causes too much alcohol [...]
How Do I Know If I Should See a Therapist?
There are people who experience negative feelings and anxieties and do nothing about them. According to The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, only 46-65% go to treatment. Experiencing troubled thoughts that interfere with [...]
Nutrition and Addiction Recovery
We know that drugs can affect the way we think and cause a lot of damage to our lives mentally as well as physically, bringing a lot of stress. Substance abuse can also ruin our [...]
Can Alcoholism Be Cured?
Physical diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure can be cured since they are physical diseases that a doctor can see. Diseases that are more psychological like alcoholism cannot be cured as the brain does [...]
Somatic Symptom Disorder
When someone is obsessively worrying that any minor physical problem can be a serious illness, you might have somatic symptom disorder which used to be known as hypochondria. This is having excessive and unrealistic worries [...]
How Can I Handle Criticism Better?
Criticism can be hard to take in because you are more concerned that someone found a flaw in you instead of trying to work through it. We are all trying to achieve perfection and we [...]
Dear Evan Hansen: A Musical That Tackles Mental Illness
Musicals have the power to get through an audience not just with their powerful dialogue but with songs that send a message of what the characters are feeling. If we can leave the show learning [...]
How is Cocaine Linked with HIV?
HIV is a retrovirus that infects the immune system cells. There are studies that shows that cocaine exposure can make it easier to contract HIV. It is important to abstain from cocaine to prevent being [...]
How Being Assertive Will Make You a Stronger Person
Being assertive means that you know what you want and are not afraid to express your wants to other people. It does not mean that you need to be aggressive in which you use scare [...]
What Are Some Useful Family Therapy Techniques?
There are no perfect families as all families have issues that they need to overcome. Luckily, there are plenty of methods that family therapists use in order to put together a broken family. Family therapy [...]