Tackling Trauma for Improved Mental Health
Recognize Your Brilliance and Resilience If it seems like you’re hearing about trauma a lot lately, you’re not wrong. It is a buzzword these days....
Category : Bipolar Disorder
Recognizing the Signs of Bipolar Disorder
Could your extreme mood swings signal a mental health issue? Bipolar disorder, sometimes called manic depression, is a condition that causes extreme mood swings. People...
Understanding Suicide Risk in Bipolar Teens
A new study of adolescents and young adults suffering from bipolar disorder and at high risk of taking their own lives found specific differences in...
Mental Health and HIV
What should you know? Will you still love me even when you discover my truth? As someone who has been living with HIV since 2007...
5 Questions: Rahn K. Bailey, M.D., Is Fighting for Mental Health Care Parity
Health care reform is likely to lead to greater integrated care It seems that even with health-care reform, mental health care in the United States...
Mental Health Disorders May Shorten Life Span
People with psychiatric conditions live an average of 10 fewer years People with depression, chronic anxiety issues such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia tend to...