Month: August 2013

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Month: August 2013

How to Manage Trauma in the Workplace

Articles>Trauma and PTSD

School shootings, office violence, threats against coworkers — these are becoming regular headlines. Such dire circumstances are indeed traumatic, but the workplace does not need to be the center of…

Childhood Experiences May Dictate Behavior During Tragedies

Articles>Trauma and PTSD

If you take a step back and think about your childhood, what’s your earliest memory? Chances are your earliest memory will have been a major emotional event, at least in…

Not All Happiness Is Created Equal, Researchers Say

Articles

In the popular imagination, all happy people have increased chances of living healthy and fulfilling lives. However, according to the results of a new study published in July 2013 in…

Gambling Addiction May Develop As a Way to Handle Stress

Articles>Mental Health

Addiction to illegal drugs and addiction to alcohol often co-occur within an individual with a mental disorder, such as depression or anxiety. In addition, those with a substance use disorder…

How to Work Step Seven

Articles>Recovery at The Ranch

Humbly asked Him [God] to remove our shortcomings. Step seven is the logical continuation of step six, wherein addicts delineate their character defects and become willing to live without them.…

Bullied Children 400 Times More Likely to Harm Themselves in Teen Years

Articles>Trauma and PTSD

Bullying is the common term for a range of physical and non-physical behaviors that center on the use of aggression to demean others and assert power and social control. Current…

Binge-Eating Disorder Is Now a Mental Illness

Articles>Mental Health

Binge/purge anorexia (also known as binge-eating/purging type anorexia) is a subtype of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa that varies somewhat from the common perception of that disorder. People affected by…

Chronic Pain Sufferers Likely to Have Anxiety, Study Finds

Articles>Mental Health

The medical community is increasingly finding that mental and physical health are closely intertwined. Screenings for multiple areas of mental health are important when treating physical health concerns because many…

Art Therapy Helps Heal Recovering Addicts

Articles>Therapy

The pain, struggle and trauma associated with drug addiction can be difficult to put into words. Art therapy is the practice of engaging a client through the use of creative…

How To Work Step Six

Articles>Early Recovery

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. The Alcoholics Anonymous-authored book, The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, famously calls step six “the step that…

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Month: August 2013

Month: August 2013

How to Manage Trauma in the Workplace

Childhood Experiences May Dictate Behavior During Tragedies

Not All Happiness Is Created Equal, Researchers Say

Gambling Addiction May Develop As a Way to Handle Stress

How to Work Step Seven

Bullied Children 400 Times More Likely to Harm Themselves in Teen Years

Binge-Eating Disorder Is Now a Mental Illness

Chronic Pain Sufferers Likely to Have Anxiety, Study Finds

Art Therapy Helps Heal Recovering Addicts

How To Work Step Six

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Month: August 2013

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