How to Cope with a Loved One’s Substance Use Disorder
Managing drug or alcohol addiction is never easy, but those whose loved one is struggling with a substance use disorder face an especially difficult and…
The Impact of Social Media on Our Behaviour
Although it may be hard to believe, a little over a decade ago, social media websites were actually incredibly rare. Nowadays social media is a…
The Long-Term Effects of Drinking Alcohol
It’s no secret that alcohol doesn’t exactly have all the nutrients of a morning kale smoothie. The effects of drinking can be felt as harshly…
5 Signs You Might Be A Serial Dater
Are you always raving to a new love prospect to your friends every other week? Do those friends get confused when you tell them you’re…
U-Hauling: Why Lesbians Face Higher Risk For Love Addiction
What is U-Hauling? You may or may not have heard the common lesbian stereotype of the “urge to merge”, otherwise known as “U-hauling”. Not to…
The 4 Mental Effects Of Swipe-Dating Apps
A World of Swiping It was in autumn of 2012 that our smartphone-addicted society was changed forever by the rise of the most infamous dating…
The 5 Types of Children from Toxic Families
Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, a family therapist and former founding chairperson of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, discovered that children who come from dysfunctional families…
7 Signs You’re in a Codependent Relationship
Codependent people are ones who tend to seek approval and self-worth from sources that are outside of themselves. In codependent relationships, the approval is sought…
Protected: 5 Must-Knows about Psychotropic Medication
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Recovery Heroine: An Interview with Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher is a journalist and author, nominated for the Pulitzer Price with her first autobiographical book “Wasted-A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”. Followed up…
Drunkorexia: a New Eating Disorder, an Interview with Kristen Fuller
Kristen Fuller is a medical doctor that completed her residency in Family Medicine. During this residency, she became very involved in treating patients with acute psychiatric…
Legal or Not? an interview with Dr. David Rettew about Marijuana
David Rettew, M.D., is a child psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He is the…
Feeling It Out and Coping: Self-Harm and Self-Care
What is Self-Harm? Self-harm is defined as the “deliberate and voluntary physical self-injury that is not life threatening and is without any conscious suicidal intent”…
Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything You Read About Marijuana, Raychelle Lohmann Unravels Teen Drug Use
Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, MS, LPCS, is a professional counselor and author of several books about teen anger, sexual trauma, and bullying. She is also a parenting contributor…
Philosophy Meets Addiction: More From Peg O’Connor
Peg O’Connor is a professor of Philosophy, who has been teaching for 22 years, with training in moral and feminist philosophy. Her earlier work studied the…
How Stress Makes Us More Vulnerable to Addiction – Interview with Shahram Heshmat
Drugs act as a form of self-medication to dispel unwanted distress. We see how at the moment…
An Interview with Dr. Gary Wenk – Your Brain on Food, Marijuana and Obesity
Dr. Wenk, from my research I see that you’ve had a long and distinguished career. Have you always been interested in studying the brain and…
Meet Dr. Joseph Nowinski, Psychologist and Author
I’d like to introduce you to Dr. Joseph Nowinski, PhD, a nationally recognized Psychologist and former professor. He is the Supervising Psychologist at the University of…
What to Expect When You Quit Drinking Alcohol
Have you been thinking about ending your relationship with alcohol? Have you ever considered that maybe you drink too much, or need to “take a break?”…
Mental Health Illness: 10 Ways To Talk Mental Health
It is unavoidable that most individuals think of people with mental illness as violent and dangerous. With the way the news outlets and mainstream media…