What is Geriatric Depression? (2/2)

What is Geriatric Depression? (2/2)

Part 2 is all about how to support an older loved one who is depressed, as well as how Geriatric Depression is treated. 

Depression is a medical disorder that needs medical attention. While family and friends can assist in the search for treatment, they are unable to address a person's depression. 

What is Geriatric Depression? (1/2)

What is Geriatric Depression? (1/2)

When a person matures into the senior years of their life, they may develop feelings of sorrow and melancholy that derive out of the aging process. Depression in the elderly can occur, but it is not a natural component of the aging process. While most individuals go through bouts of sadness, depression is a medical illness that can be treated.

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (3/3)

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (3/3)

About the line drawn between a healthy and an unhealthy relationship with porn usage, withdrawal symptoms and treatment approaches - treatment options for porn addiction and when porn usage is considered harmful.

4 Misconceptions that People in Recovery Convince Themselves are the Truth

4 Misconceptions that People in Recovery Convince Themselves are the Truth

Seeing someone battle addiction is just like that - one day, they may be crying about how miserable their life is and they need to stop drinking or using and then the next day, they do not need any help and are sure they are only enduring some bad luck. This type of yo-yo thinking creates dishonesty that people who abuse substances will convince themselves that they are telling the truth regardless of any deceit.

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (2/3) 

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (2/3) 

The serious personal and interpersonal effects of excessive pornography that can help the reader comprehend its serious consequences and identify if any of these have been occurring in their life.

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (1/3)

Porn Addiction: How Dangerous is It? (1/3)

We are bringing you a series focusing on porn addiction and how it can be a detrimental activity that may have physical, psychological and emotional effects.

What Does “Getting Centered” Really Mean?

What Does “Getting Centered” Really Mean?

Apprehension creeps up, eroding your sense of self-worth and self-esteem. The next thing that happens almost unconsciously is that your misusing drugs and alcohol has progressed to the point where you are completely self-absorbed - with their only concern being how to obtain their next fix.

Trauma Informed Care

Trauma Informed Care

Solstice Pacific proudly offers trauma-informed care to all of its patients. Trauma-informed care is a paradigm in which patients receive services,  framed and grounded in the understanding of the impacts of trauma that affect our physical, psychological, and emotional well-being.

A Vision for Recovery

A Vision for Recovery

Due to the stigma that addiction has acquired, individuals who battle with addiction are often thought of as derelict, low-class or doomed.

Traveling with People who Struggle with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2/2)

Traveling with People who Struggle with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2/2)

A vacation is intended to be a time for you and your family to reward yourself and each other after a period of hard work, development, and change.

 Traveling with People Who Struggle with Autism Spectrum Disorder (1/2)

Traveling with People Who Struggle with Autism Spectrum Disorder (1/2)

People with autism require as much structure and regularity in their daily routines as possible. Vacations are, by definition, a break from their everyday activities.

What Solstice Pacific Offers

Solstice Pacific aims to provide practical solutions, each individualized to the specific needs of the people we serve. Even though our clients ultimately know what works and what doesn't, we are here to deliver early recovery and aftercare skills based on research and decades of psychiatric practice.

Closer Look at Mental Health for IT Professionals

Closer Look at Mental Health for IT Professionals

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?

Self Care - I Dare You!

Self Care - I Dare You!

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!"

In-network Cigna Depression Treatment Center

Depression is more commonly reported in primary care. In part, practitioners more routinely ask about mood and suicidality.
Why Yoga?

Why Yoga?

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.

6 Simple Ways to Deal With Emotional Stress

Studies describe stress as, “any situation which tends to disturb the equilibrium between a living organism and its environment.”

Domestic Abuse: Symptoms and Solutions for Those Suffering

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.

What is Emotional Abuse and How to Survive It (1/2)

What is Emotional Abuse and How to Survive It (1/2)

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.

Why Are States Suing Pharmaceutical Companies?

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.

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