Category: Mental Health

For anyone suffering from past trauma, it can feel like having a movie clip in your head that never stops playing. All of the intense feelings from the traumatic experience are felt on repeat, and all you want to do is make it stop. These feelings can be so intense that they can push you […]

Nervousness, panic and tension follow you around your daily life like a shadow. And if you’re one of the millions of women in the country with an anxiety disorder, you know these feelings all too well and just want a way to escape them. But with anxiety, finding an escape or a way to cope […]

Maybe you were injured on the job or in an automobile accident. You might have been recovering from surgery. The point is, prescription painkillers were supposed to help. And they did for a while. Then, somewhere along the way, things changed. You started feeling anxious between doses. You might have started taking more of it […]

It has widely been debated as to whether or not drinking can lead to an increase in anxiety. For adults, this is possible because of the effects of alcohol abuse on brain activity. Heavy adult drinkers may be predisposed to developing some kind of anxiety disorder. But, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse […]

Problem drinking and drug abuse happen more often in people suffering from depression than in the rest of the general population. While this is a common combination, it is also a very dangerous duo. Sometimes depression can lead to drug addiction, while other times the addiction leads to depression. Regardless of which came first, both […]