We spend a lot of time talking about roadmaps: implementation roadmaps, product roadmaps, and more. But what about perhaps our most important roadmap — the mental health roadmap?
The next 11 days are when self-care really matters. Old tradition, new tradition, familiar faces, strangers, smells and sounds that elicit memories, uncomfortable situations, seeing the bank account and even yes, feeling loved, each are feedback, a message for you: "Self-Care STAT!"
When Depression Requires More Than Self-Talk
Depression is more commonly reported in primary care. In part, practitioners more routinely ask about mood and suicidality.
A focus on deep breathing and gentle stretching through the practice of yoga helps you recalibrate your stress response and general feeling of wellness. Yoga is one of the oldest types of exercise, and while there are many different styles of yoga ranging from easy to demanding, most yoga practices include stretching, breathing,meditation and mindfulness.
Studies describe stress as, “any situation which tends to disturb the equilibrium between a living organism and its environment.”
Anybody, irrespective of their educational, financial or social status can fall victim to domestic abuse. Unfortunately, most abuse victims choose to hide or ignore the issues they face despite the fact that we’re now encouraged to be more open about our personal and social lives than ever before - there’s still an element of social stigma associated with domestic abuse.
Just like physical abuse, emotional abuse is extremely harmful to a victim’s life and personality and oftentimes precedes physical abuse. Emotional abuse is primarily a verbal form of abuse and can sometimes even be used by the abuser in conjunction with physical or other forms of abuse.
Since 1998 with the Big Tobacco take down, there has not been as crucial of a lawsuit that have formed than the ones that have been established in the past year against Big Pharma.
This is something that almost everyone has faced in their personal lives, and might still be wondering what the reason behind it may be.
You can’t force people to get help. As much as we would love to think we can, it seems the only time someone is going to get help is when they decide for themselves they are ready.
Winston Churchill once asserted, “One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger.
Most people who enter recovery from a mental illness feel dread, chaos and as though they are shattered into pieces. The last thing on their mind is that they need to help someone else in order to gain their own repair and wellness. Simply put, service entails assisting others in a collective setting.
Along with the opioid crisis for which the United States was put on a Public Health Emergency for, the number of babies that are born addicted to opiates has also risen.
You may hear frequently about the search for purpose in someone’s life. There are those types of people that just seem to know right away what they are meant to do and then there are others that struggle to fathom what their destiny is at all.
Solstice is a collaboration of licensed mental health professionals with advanced graduate degrees who have decades of clinical experience in the fields of addiction, mental health and dual diagnosis.
The sentiments of Faith, Hope, Love, and Honesty when heard may usually be pushed off as something completely religious.
Forgiveness is not an easy act to carry out for many people. Trying to let go of past transgressions is sometimes quite difficult to pull the trigger on.
Getting help in a rehabilitation facility and finally detoxing off drugs and alcohol is the best decision that you can make for your addiction.
When we get into recovery, we begin to hear many things that are intended to disturb us about our addiction.
