Specific vs Complex Phobias: Understanding Your Fears
When you think of phobias, terms like claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) or arachnophobia (fear of spiders) may first come to mind. These are two very common phobias, along with others like fear of heights, needles, and flying. These are specific phobias, or simple phobias, since they involve a specific subject. The other type of […]
Main Types of Mood Disorders
Mood disorders is an umbrella term that encompasses many of the different mental health conditions that impact mood. Generally, the effect on mood is negative, resulting in low mood, irritability, and feelings of hopelessness, but the causes and specific symptoms of a mood disorder can differ greatly depending on the specific type of mood disorder. If […]
What to Know If You Want to Stop Taking Your Mental Health Medication
There are many reasons you might want to discontinue mental health medication. You may not like the side effects, the cost of a prescription can be hard to manage, or you may feel like your condition no longer requires a prescription to manage the symptoms. You may also have a personal preference for discontinuing the […]
Understanding Schizophrenia: Positive and Negative Symptoms
Schizophrenia is a complex mental health condition. Understanding the experience of someone living with schizophrenia – or identifying the symptoms in yourself or a family member in order to seek treatment – is not always straightforward. Visual and auditory hallucinations are usually one of the most recognized and apparent symptoms of schizophrenia, but those with […]
Sadness Vs Depression: Which are You Experiencing and When to Seek Treatment?
Many different events throughout our lives will make us feel sad. Failing a test at school or a project at work, losing a loved one or something important, stress in your life, traumatic events, and other challenges can all result in feelings of sadness, guilt, despondency, and more negative emotions. Depression also produces many of […]
How to Manage Stressful Situations Without Jeopardizing Your Wellbeing
Living through stressful situations takes a toll on your mental and physical health. While more limited periods of stress can get you through challenging situations, continuing stress will begin to put you at risk for mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and panic disorder, as well as physical health issues. Being able to manage stress […]
Mental and Physical Results of Too Little Sleep
The feeling of grogginess after a night when you went to bed late or in which you tossed and turned can make it difficult to get through the next day. But when a sleeping disorder continuously impacts your ability to get enough quality sleep, the results can be more extreme than a few days of […]
Warning Signs of Suicide
One of the main challenges with suicide is that those who are experiencing suicidal thoughts may feel shame or guilt about those thoughts, making them unwilling to confide in others until it is too late for an outside observer to tell those who are experiencing suicide ideation that their thoughts of worthlessness, sadness, or the […]
Differences Between Drug Misuse, Substance Abuse, and Drug Addiction
The incorrect usage of drugs is a leading concern in Dallas and elsewhere. As a result, you may frequently hear the terms misuse, abuse, and addiction in the conversation surrounding the drug epidemic. But these words are not exactly interchangeable and each describes a particular set of challenges. While all of these can require help […]
How Drinking Alcohol May Be Impacting Your Depression
There is a correlation between depression and alcohol abuse. One does not necessarily cause the other, but those who exhibit alcoholism are likely to have clinical depression. Likewise, those who abuse alcohol have likely dealt with depression symptoms or are currently doing so. Although alcohol addiction and depression may not cause each other, alcoholism will […]