When a loved one, whether that be a family or close friend, opens up to you and communicates that they are depressed or are experiencing depression, our typical and eager first thought is “How Do I Help Them?” Helping, being there, and supporting a loved one is one of the most impactful things we can…
We all love and adore the children’s shows and movies about Winnie the Pooh and friends. The lovable, giddy, relatable characters like pooh bear, piglet, Christopher Robinson, tigger, eeyore, too, rabbit, and owl all have some sort of special place in our hearts. Some characters we may feel a certain attraction or closeness too but…
After being diagnosed with a mental disorder or illness whether that be generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, ADHD, depression, etc there is always a line of treatment that is followed in order to treat the disorder. The first step of treating a mental disorder is going to psychotherapy which can then be followed by a…
Whether you are already a frequent routine weight lifter, a runner, a bodybuilder, a powerlifter, a yoga person, or an at home workout fan the benefits of weight lifting have an impact that ranges far outside of just our muscles. Tiffany Ayuda from Get Pocket lists the 7 Incredible Benefits of Lifting Weights That Have…
Author Seth J. Gillihan, PhD of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple offers many everyday easy tactics to help us break down using cognitive behavioral therapy in our everyday lives. His ten strategies in his book include topics from goal setting, activating behavior, identifying and breaking negative thought patterns, maintaining mindfulness, and plenty other useful ways…
The contemporary views of psychopathology include biological approaches, psychological approaches, and behaviorism. Biological approaches include the study of genetics and biological treatments. Psychological approaches differ as they focus on psychoanalysis therapy. Behaviorism addresses aspects such as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modeling. Biological Approaches: General paresis and syphilis were significant to the evidence of mental…
Treatments for anxiety disorders include psychological treatments and the administration of medication. Psychological treatments often include exposure methods such as virtual reality or in vivo exposure, cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation treatments, and other cognitive behavior models. The use of anxiolytics is also often involved in the treatment plans of anxiety disorders and prescribe either antidepressants…
Opioids include opium, morphine, heroin, and codeine. Moderate doses relieve pain however prescription pain medications are among the most abused of all drugs. These include Vicodin, Zydone, Lortab, Percodan, Tylox, and OxyContin. 7% of the US has misused at least once. The use of heroin is more common in men with people most often starting with…
The odd/eccentric cluster, or cluster A, includes paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder where it is the only cluster A disorder to be recommended for retention in the alternative model. It is different from schizophrenia as bizarre thinking and functioning impairments are less severe, hallucinations are not present, and full-blown delusions…
There are a multitude of treatment barriers that arise when addressing behavioral problems in adolescents. These barriers are apparent in family, adolescent, and clinical domains. These issues range from attitudes towards treatment services, the captured understanding of mental health, treatment reliance, systemic views, family circumstances, cultural and ethnic underrepresentation, and the available access to these…