What Can You Do For Post-Holiday Depression? While you may expect the holidays to be enjoyable with happy memories, most people stayed isolated this year. Missing out on attending parties, visiting loved ones, traveling, and exchanging gifts may increase people’s feelings of isolation and depression. Mental health concerns can add to this burden. If your…
The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate and commiserate with friends and family. However, the stress of the holidays can impact your mental health and wellbeing. For individuals recovering from addiction to those dealing with ongoing mental health issues, the holidays can be a difficult time. Yet you aren’t alone. During the holidays, everyone…
Suicide Is a Worldwide Crisis More than 800,000 people across the globe die by suicide every year. During World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, people around the world come together to engage in discussions of suicide-prevention strategies. National Suicide Prevention Week (September 6th to September 12th) is an opportunity to confront these deaths and…
Help with Suicide Prevention September hosts a National Suicide Prevention Week, and we would like to share some information about possible suicide warning signs. Suicide statistics in the U.S. are staggering. In 2010, more people died by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes, according to a 2013 CDC report. Depression is extremely common in the…
Battling Depression If you are struggling with depression, asking for help may seem impossible. You may feel like willpower alone should be enough to help you overcome your problems, or that asking for help will make you feel vulnerable and insecure. It can leave you feeling weak, incapable, alone, and isolated. However, asking for help…
Mental health impacts our everyday lives. When symptoms of depression linger, affecting our families and careers, talk therapy for depression counseling can help. Talk Therapy for Depression Symptoms Talk therapy, or psychotherapy, provides a means to learn about depression and new skills to manage symptoms. This type of therapy for depression provides relief from symptoms…
Our lives are never as smooth as we would like. We all have those moments of sadness and regret, where it feels like things never going right. For some people, though, these feelings linger. And at that point, you might start to wonder: Are these the symptoms of depression? Clinical depression is a real illness…
Have you ever thought about how mental health affects your life? If you haven’t suffered from a mental illness or been close to someone who has, mental health can be pretty easy to take for granted. It may even be hard to understand since it isn’t easy to see like, say, an arm in a…
Depression and anxiety often go hand in hand. If you suffer from one, it’s not uncommon to suffer from the other. Depression is a mental illness characterized by a constant feeling of loss and sadness. Anxiety, on the other hand, causes a person to feel overwhelmed by worry and fear. Anxiety is a broad term…
Almost half of adults in the US will experience some kind of mental illness in their lifetime. In any given year, roughly 44 million people suffer from a mental disorder. Yet only 41 percent of those who suffer will seek treatment for these eminently treatable common mental health disorders. There are many possible reasons for…