What is Passive Suicidal Ideation?
Suicide is death that occurs when someone injures themselves with the intent to die. It is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of more [...]
Social Connection and Healthy Activities are Important to Mental Health
Why should you reconsider your relationship with stress and how can you incorporate social connections and healthy activities? […]
CBT vs. Cognitive Therapy: What’s The Difference?
If you’ve considered starting therapy but are overwhelmed by all the different types, you’re not alone. While having various types of therapy helps individuals receive the quality of care they need, [...]
7 Tips to Manage Your Sleep in Mental Health Recovery
Be honest - how many hours of sleep do you get per night? Experts recommend you get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep every night. Do your regular sleeping habits [...]
Learning to Detach with Love Instead of Enabling Your Loved One
Where does the line between helping and enabling your loved one lie? It can be hard to tell when you have a parent, child, or friend trapped deep in the cycle [...]
New Ways to Manage Your Depression in the New Year
The new year feels like a natural time to look back on the past year and set goals for the upcoming one. You can consider what went well, what could have [...]
4 Reasons to Seek Treatment During the Holidays
The holidays are a time of happiness and good cheer for many people, bringing friends and families together for celebrations throughout the season. Excitement and joy are at an all-time high [...]
How Mental Illness Affects the Whole Family
Although mental health awareness is becoming more common in the United States, that doesn’t make it easier to be someone living with it day-to-day. Conditions like depression, anxiety and/or panic disorders, [...]
Anxiety Disorders: Affecting Americans By the Millions
Everyone feels nervous or uneasy from time to time. It’s common to experience some restlessness the night before a big presentation at work or to get a bit fidgety on your [...]
Recovery Month: A Time for Celebration and Hope
It’s easy to feel hopeless and defeated when you’ve struggled with drug and alcohol abuse for years. The addiction cycle keeps many people trapped for months, years, and even decades. One [...]
Electronic Etiquette in the Digital Age
By: David Greenfield, PhD, MS, LMFT, Clinical Pathway Director | Technology Addiction A New Normal Americans have not yet processed how to deal with the smartphone’s ever-presence in daily living. We [...]
COVID-19 Sends Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an incredible number of unpredictable circumstances and situations. From increased time spent at home as a result of such factors including job loss, children and [...]
Minorities & Mental Health Treatment: Recognizing the Gaps
Mental illness knows no boundaries. It does not discriminate. There is no single picture of what mental illness looks like; anyone can experience mental health struggles no matter who they are [...]
Secondary Trauma: Absorbing the Pain of Your Loved One
Experiencing a traumatic event is enough to leave anyone shaken but sometimes that shaken feeling sticks around. It develops into a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), something that most people [...]
Fun Summer Activities to Help During Recovery
Summer is fast approaching and people are getting ready for a few months of freedom and fun. It’s a time for warm days, barbecues, festivals, holidays, beach trips and more. Summertime [...]
One More Hit of Facebook: Social Media, or Social Menace?
Our fascination with social media has taught us how to avoid our fear and loneliness. We have also learned how to mask our unwanted feelings and fall deeper into the mindless [...]
Understanding Alcoholism During Alcohol Awareness Month
Each April marks Alcohol Awareness Month, a campaign to spread the truth about those trapped in the grips of alcohol abuse. Alcohol Awareness Month is sponsored by the National Council on [...]
Spring Cleaning for the Mind
By: Denise Etherton, M.A., LPC, Regional Director of Clinical Partnerships, Lifeskills South Florida Do you ever feel like your brain is full of clutter and you can’t find things when you [...]
Using DBT’s Four Main Skills to Prevent Self-Injury
March 1st has been known as Self-Injury Awareness Day within the mental health community for the last 20 years. Every year, this global event does the important work of raising awareness [...]
Thriving in a Digital World: The Impact of Devices
There’s no returning to a world free from constant digital distractions. People walking down the street, their gaze glued to the screen of their smartphone, would have looked absurd two decades [...]