Mental health and substance use disorders do not get better on their own. If they are left untreated, they can progress and cause worsening symptoms that interfere with your...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common form of talk therapy. It is considered a short-term treatment, taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to see...
The connection between mental health and substance use has become a popular topic of conversation in recent years. While neither disorder is directly responsible for causing the other, both...
Traumatic experiences can happen to anyone, though you’re more likely to be traumatized by an event when you are under a heavy stress load, have recently suffered multiple losses...
Each year, Mental Health America takes time during the first week of October to raise awareness of the mental health crisis and the resources we have to fight it....
Self-medication is when an individual uses medications or substances to treat self-diagnosed symptoms or conditions. For example, you might use old pain medication to treat a sprained ankle that...