Beginners Guide: Anxiety Therapy Chicago
For those of you who don’t know, anxiety is your body’s natural response to not coping with stress. It is a feeling of apprehension or fear about what’s to come – going to a job interview, the first day of…
For those of you who don’t know, anxiety is your body’s natural response to not coping with stress. It is a feeling of apprehension or fear about what’s to come – going to a job interview, the first day of…
How to Prevent Suicide During Covid-19? COVID-19 has inflicted severe damage on America’s collective mental health. Young people are particularly hard hit. While many youths find themselves on a spectrum of anxiety and depression, there is a concerning subset of…
How To Manage Your Mental Health During COVID-19? The rate of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among America’s youth was at epidemic proportions before COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, over 20% of America’s college students suffered from a mental health…
How Has COVID-19 Created A Mental Health Crisis? The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not just wreaking havoc on America’s physical health. The unique threat of the virus, plus the isolation of lockdown and uncertainty of the future all have contributed…
How Do I Find Eating Disorder Treatment? Eating disorders are frightening conditions. Victims and their families face a feeling of hopelessness and a spiraling loss of control. These disorders are painful to experience and witness, particularly when a loved one…
How Can Vitamins Benefit My Mental Health? Vitamins are often portrayed as a quasi-medicinal afterthought. Vitamins, however, are crucial pieces of equipment for our body’s natural processes. Vitamin deficiency can cause everything from Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome to malaise and depression. Those…
What Is Integrative Medicine? The short answer is that it’s the future of medicine. The long answer is that integrative medicine (IM) is a diverse web of healing practices and treatments that complement traditional forms of therapy. It integrates medical,…
Ketamine Treatment for Depression and PTSD. Ketamine is the new kid at pharmacology school. Ketamine was a drug originally developed as a veterinary tranquilizer or a “dissociative anesthetic.” Though it gained its notoriety as a drug of abuse during the rave years…
Is There A Link Between Cannabis And Mental Health? Marijuana is not the innocuous herb it was once regarded as being. Marijuana today is up to 70% more potent than it was in the 1970s. The potency, coupled with the…
The Rise In Youth Mental Health Diagnoses. The kids aren’t alright. Children today are growing up in a world that would look intense and strange to the children of older generations. Today’s youth faces a grown-up world with deeply adult…
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