There are many different activities that kids can take part in indoors that make them feel good and help them to stay positive. A large amount of these involves music, which is known to be a great way to boost your mood depending on what you listen to at any given...
When I was a kid, I genuinely thought that my mom had a weekly appointment to shrink her head. She already has a very small head, so this was incredibly confusing to me. It was only when my mom took me to see a therapist myself at around 10 years old that she...
According to Mental Health America, 1.2 million individuals living with mental illness sit in jail and prison every year. Serious mental illness has become so prevalent in U.S. jails and prisons that they are commonly referred to as “the new asylums.” Right here in...
A sigh on the breeze, a delicate transience passing through, life is so fragile and precarious. How do we deal with grief? As a loved one fades away leaving us like a lone pillar holding up a ceiling ready to crash down around us, it can feel like all is in ruins and...
We see a lot of people, homeless or not, that wind up in the prison system for committing crimes due to their mental illness. There are many factors that are involved in situations like these. So many questions need to be answered first before coming to the final...
The documented efficacy and long-term benefit of antidepressants in patients with recurrent forms of severe anxiety or depressive disorders support their use in those individuals with these disorders, who experience suicidal thoughts or behavior. In general, it is...