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Understanding the Different Types of Depression and How They Impact Daily Life

You’re facing diverse types of depression that affect your daily life, and each brings unique challenges. Major depressive disorder can plunge you into despair and ...

Depression

What Are the Early Warning Signs of Depression?

If you’re noticing persistent sadness, it might be an early warning sign of depression. You could also experience a loss of interest in activities you ...

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Depression

Depression vs. Sadness: Knowing the Difference

Sadness and depression might seem similar, but they’re quite distinct. Sadness is a temporary emotion triggered by events like loss or disappointment. You might feel ...

Mental Health

Finding Mental Health Treatment with United Healthcare Insurance

If you’re looking for mental health treatment and wondering how United Healthcare insurance can help, you’re in the right place. Understanding your coverage and knowing ...

Mental Health

Understanding Magellan Healthcare’s Mental Health Coverage and Benefits

Magellan Healthcare Insurance offers coverage for mental health treatment, ensuring members have access to the care they need to achieve emotional well-being and long-term stability. ...

Mental Health

Does Optum Health Insurance Cover Mental Health Treatment?

Optum Health Insurance provides coverage for therapy, medication management, and other treatments to help individuals achieve better mental health. Optum makes it easier to get ...

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Mental Health

Finding Mental Health Treatment with United Healthcare Insurance

If you’re looking for mental health treatment and wondering how United Healthcare insurance can help, you’re in the right place. Understanding your coverage and knowing ...

Mental Health

Understanding Magellan Healthcare’s Mental Health Coverage and Benefits

Magellan Healthcare Insurance offers coverage for mental health treatment, ensuring members have access to the care they need to achieve emotional well-being and long-term stability. ...

Mental Health

Does Optum Health Insurance Cover Mental Health Treatment?

Optum Health Insurance provides coverage for therapy, medication management, and other treatments to help individuals achieve better mental health. Optum makes it easier to get ...

Image showing the importance of finding safety and support through inpatient care for individuals experiencing suicidal ideation and self-harm.

Self Harm

Finding Safety and Support Through Inpatient Care for Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm

In the moment of feeling overwhelming despair and suicidal ideation, it can be difficult to see the sun through the clouds. Unfortunately, too many people ...

Suicidal Ideation

What Disorders Can Result in Suicidal Ideation

Suicidal Ideation Disorders All mental health clinically diagnosed disorders run the risk of suicide ideation. Most are linked to depressive symptoms within the disorder traced ...

Suicidal Ideation

When to Report Suicidal Ideation

Active suicide ideation is thinking of different ways to die, forming a plan with the means to do so, and the intent to carry it ...

PTSD

Innovative Approaches to Treating PTSD in an Inpatient Setting

When a person is struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it can overshadow every aspect of life. Not only is it debilitating, but you might ...

PTSD

How Does PTSD Affect Relationships?

PTSD can affect relationships vastly. The individual with PTSD is most likely experiencing a dysregulated mood, feels numb to their external world, feels different, has ...

PTSD

How to Support Someone With PTSD

Normalizing Difficulties PTSD is a disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing traumatic events. The condition may last months or ...

Mental Health

Are There Different Types of Schizophrenia?

There are several schizophrenia-like disorders listed in DSM-5, each determined by specific durations and sets of symptoms. These psychotic disorders resemble schizophrenia and are called ...

Schizoaffective

Supporting Someone with Schizoaffective Disorder

Education and Understanding An active and helpful support system for someone diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder plays a vital role and reducing the likelihood of recurring ...

Schizoaffective

Challenges of Schizoaffective Disorder and Relationships

About Schizoaffective Disorder Schizoaffective disorder is a clinical disorder on the schizophrenia spectrum. Schizo refers to the psychotic symptoms like schizophrenia. The affective refers to ...

Depression

Understanding the Different Types of Depression and How They Impact Daily Life

You’re facing diverse types of depression that affect your daily life, and each brings unique challenges. Major depressive disorder can plunge you into despair and ...

Depression

What Are the Early Warning Signs of Depression?

If you’re noticing persistent sadness, it might be an early warning sign of depression. You could also experience a loss of interest in activities you ...

Depression

Depression vs. Sadness: Knowing the Difference

Sadness and depression might seem similar, but they’re quite distinct. Sadness is a temporary emotion triggered by events like loss or disappointment. You might feel ...

Anxiety

Healing Anxiety Disorders through Residential Treatment

Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD) are on the rise, with an estimated 6.8 million adults in the United States suffering from this mental health condition. Unfortunately, ...

Anxiety

The Science of Stress Relief: Discovering the Best Relaxation Techniques at Wellness Centers

The Science of Stress I. Basic Facts Stress is a universal experience, and in low amounts, it can actually be helpful as a motivator or ...

Anxiety

How to Detach from Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, trouble with interpersonal relationships, a tendency toward ...

Bipolar

Differences Between Bipolar 1 and Bipolar 2

Bipolar Disorders According to the American Psychiatric Association, there are four major categories of bipolar disorder: (1) There is no known definitive cause for bipolar disorders, ...

ADD/ADHD

Can You Have ADHD and Bipolar?

ADHD and bipolar often coexist, and individuals with this comorbidity often experience severe symptoms that are burdensome. Learn more about it here.

Bipolar

World Bipolar Day (WBD)

What is World Bipolar Day? World Bipolar Day (WBD) was formed in collaboration with the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD), the International Bipolar Foundation ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

Finding Stability in Residential Treatment for Personality Disorders

When someone is suffering from a personality disorder, it can take a toll on every area of their life. Not only is it challenging to ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

Why is Saying No to Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder Difficult?

Communicating With Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder (1)(2) First review, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, trouble with interpersonal ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

How To Talk To Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder

What is Borderline Personality Disorder? (1) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, trouble with interpersonal relationships, a tendency toward ...

Mental Health

Are There Different Types of Schizophrenia?

There are several schizophrenia-like disorders listed in DSM-5, each determined by specific durations and sets of symptoms. These psychotic disorders resemble schizophrenia and are called ...

Mental Health

Schizophrenia Art Therapy

What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a lifelong mental health condition. (2) People with schizophrenia experience several symptoms, such as hallucinations and distorted or false perceptions, ...

Schizophrenia

Can Schizophrenia Go Away?

Schizophrenia is a pervasive disorder that may worsen over time. While there is no single cure, the upside is that schizophrenia can be treated, and ...

Self Harm

Finding Safety and Support Through Inpatient Care for Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm

In the moment of feeling overwhelming despair and suicidal ideation, it can be difficult to see the sun through the clouds. Unfortunately, too many people ...

Self Harm

Identifying Self-Harm Triggers and Treatment

Self-harm, also referred to as non-suicidal self-injury, is the act of deliberately causing yourself bodily harm, such as burning or cutting yourself. In most cases, ...