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What is Dual Diagnosis?: The Intersection of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

Navigating the complex terrain of mental health and substance abuse can be overwhelming, especially when they co-occur. In this comprehensive guide, we delve deep into the topic of dual diagnosis, shedding light on the various mental health conditions often linked with substance abuse, and why specialized treatment is imperative. Whether you or a loved one...
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How to Help Someone with Mental Illness

In any given year, one in five adults in America grapples with mental illness, making the need for mental illness help more crucial than ever. The task of assisting a loved one dealing with mental illness can often feel overwhelming. How do you approach them? What are the available mental health services? And what can...
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What to Do if Therapy Isn't Working: 5 Tips to Try

What to Do if Therapy Isn’t Working: 5 Tips to Try

Therapy serves as an excellent tool to help thousands of individuals heal from mental health issues. However, finding the best type of therapy for your needs can be difficult and take time to yield tangible results. When these challenges persist, individuals may even start feeling worse or losing hope. This is often because they don’t...
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Are Panic Attacks Dangerous?

Are Panic Attacks Dangerous? When to See a Doctor

Panic attacks can suddenly trigger someone’s fight-or-flight response and derail their plans for the entire day. But in addition to being uncomfortable and disruptive, are panic attacks dangerous? Can they cause real, physical harm, or are they only capable of inciting fear and anxiety? Today, we will discuss the symptoms that define a panic attack...
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how to get out of a depressive episode

How to Get Out of a Depressive Episode

Everyone goes through funks in life—times where nothing seems to go right. Thankfully, these sad periods tend to go away on their own without causing too much disturbance to daily life. But sometimes, these sad periods are much more severe, and they don’t seem to go away easily. These are depressive episodes, and they can...
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Anxiety Awareness: What’s Your Risk?

It’s not uncommon for everybody to experience anxiety every so often. Things like moving, getting a new job, socializing in the COVID-19 pandemic, things like this are all situations that could cause some nerves. But when those nerves or worries turn into something more persistent and pressing, there could be underlying issues of anxiety. And...
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emotional triggers

How to Identify Emotional Triggers in 3 Steps

In everyday life, some amount of distress or pain is normal. Everyone feels fear, sadness, anger, and other negative emotions. But for most people, these emotions have logical and proportionate causes. When these feelings seem to come from nowhere or be stronger than their cause warrants, it may be due to an emotional trigger.  ...
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mental illness stigma

5 Tips for Overcoming Mental Illness Stigma

Mental illness stigma is something that affects everyone, whether you have a mental health condition yourself or love someone who does. The symptoms of mental illness can make it hard enough to get help, but the stigma of mental illness makes it even harder to reach out to friends and family. And without that critical...
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