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 young adults who are prone to self-harm. The prevalence of youthful self-harm (and self-harmful ideation) …
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 disorder. This is deeply understandable considering that young people, particularly those in high school and …
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 to the unprecedented mental health crisis taking hold in America. Particularly—and unfortunately—amongst our nation’s young …
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 suffering from alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders are at a higher risk for nutritional …
What Is Integrative Medicine? The short answer is that it’s the future of medicine. The long answer is that integrative medicine (IM) for mental health is a diverse web of healing practices and treatments that complement traditional forms of therapy. It integrates medical, clinical, holistic, and extended care practices into a single, organic form of …
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 powerful (and discrete) new forms of ingestion plus legalization efforts have created an entirely new …
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 problems. Sadly–but not entirely unsurprisingly–over the past decade, the diagnoses of mental health disorders amongst …
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