Happy Mental Health Tips this Valentine’s Day
When a person is struggling with mental health issues, holidays like Valentine’s Day can trigger their condition to deepen. This is hardly surprising when you consider the level of media attention cast on the day which serves to “guilt” people into making romantic gestures to their partners. People who are alone or experiencing relationship […]
Take a Step into Mental Health Treatment in 2019
There are hundreds of thousands of Americans suffering with mental health issues including addiction and not all of them receive the treatment they need. The beginning of the year often marks a time for change in a person’s life and for some that means seeking professional treatment for mental illness. However, before an individual […]
How to Make Healthy Changes in the New Year
The start of a new year is always a time when we take a look at our lifestyle and resolve to make positive changes. The majority of people want to lose a little of the extra weight they have put on over the holidays and others may want to quit smoking or drinking as […]
How to Prep for a New Year
The New Year is a traditional time for making positive lifestyle changes with resolutions. For recovering addicts, this is particularly important as they embrace their substance-free lives. In this article, we look at some positive resolutions people can make to help them continue on the road to sobriety and enjoy a successful recovery from […]
The Importance of Addressing Mental Illness in Addiction Recovery
There is a strong correlation between addiction and mental health and many people needing treatment for substance abuse often have co-existing mental health conditions. In some cases, a mental illness preceded substance abuse and in others, symptoms of mental illness are a direct consequence of substance abuse. Regardless of the origins of mental illness […]
Are Pain Pills a Gateway to Addiction?
Prescription pain pills are meant to be taken short term for pain relief, usually from the effects of surgical procedures and dental treatment. Over a longer period, due to a chemical adjustment in the brain, you have to take the drug in greater quantity to achieve the same pain relieving effect. The drugs work quickly […]
Tips on Staying Sober at the Thanksgiving Table
Thanksgiving represents the start of the holiday season and if you are in recovery, be it a recent change or a longer term commitment to sobriety, you may be dreading it. Pleasures to some are temptations to be avoided by others. The simple change in routine can be unsettling if you have been focusing on […]
STAYING SOBER AND SAFE THIS HALLOWEEN
When someone has completed rehab and overcome addiction, they journey is not over. Although addiction is an illness that can be successfully treated to allow people a happy life in sobriety, there is no cure. The majority of people go on to face challenges in their daily lives that have the potential for relapse, […]
KEEPING MENTAL HEALTH A PRIORITY IN SHIFTING WINTER SEASON
For some people, the darker and colder months of winter represent a type of depression that is connected with the changes of the seasons known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. For many people, the winter months herald the onset of this seasonal depression while for others, the spring or summer triggers the condition. […]
WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING A DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTER
Addiction to drugs or alcohol is an intensely personal journey and so is rehabilitation and recovery from the illness. For this reason, people select rehab centers for different reasons in order to find the one offering programs that best resonate with them. Some may prefer the traditional approach of 12-Step, whereas others may seek […]
CELEBRITIES AND ADDICTION: WHY WE ARE SEEING MORE CELEBRITY ADDICTS
Ultimately, celebrities are normal folk with all the issues and problems we all experience in our lives. That said, we tend to imagine they life stress-free lives where the only decisions they have to make is which car or home to buy next. We live in a world where we still believe that money […]
HOW TO IDENTIFY HIDDEN ADDICTION INDICATORS IN A LOVED ONE
If you have noticed a close friend or loved one has been behaving out of character and you suspect there may be more than meets the eye going on, what can you do? Perhaps they are drinking more than usual and to excess or they have started hanging out with different people in unfamiliar […]