Year: 2013

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Year: 2013

When Psychosis Hits Home

Articles>Mental Health

Finding out that a loved one has a psychotic disorder can be just as frightening as hearing your medical doctor use the dreaded word “cancer.” Both types of illness elicit…

What are the Best Internet Filtering and Accountability Programs for Recovering Sex Addicts?

Articles>Sex Addiction

For sex addicts, the Internet is a dangerous place, providing instant and seemingly endless access to pornography, prostitutes, casual/anonymous sex partners, emotional affairs, and more. For this reason, anyone hoping…

An Interview with Sue Levitan, Primary Therapist

Staff Stories

Sue Levitan is one of the first faces clients see when they begin detoxification and stabilization at The Ranch. She conducts psychosocial interviews and assessments to figure out who each…

5 Fears About Trauma Therapy (and the Rationale for Overcoming Them)

Articles>Recovery at The Ranch

There are a number of fears and misconceptions surrounding trauma therapy. When someone has already been through so much, why struggle more? In short, because trauma therapy heals.

Staring Down the Void: What to Do With Yourself After Quitting the Bottle

Articles>Early Recovery

Living in sobriety is more than subtracting “getting drunk” from your daily schedule. You are beginning to rebuild your life, overhauling it even, so it’s time to start looking at…

‘Fat Talk’ and ‘Old Talk’ Don’t Do a Body Good

Articles>Eating Disorders

The development of eating disorders is often linked to some perception of the thin ideal, a pie-in-the-sky notion of what women should look like, based on doctored media images. The…

An Interview with Leslie Binch, Primary Therapist

Staff Stories

Like all great tales, Leslie Binch’s story begins with love and good food. A native New Yorker, Leslie moved to Tennessee for a man—a man she eventually married and joined…

Reading Faces Can Be Tough for Bipolar Patients, Study Finds

Articles

One major challenge for individuals with a mental disorder is functioning in social situations. For individuals who meet criteria for disorders like anxiety, depression or any other mental health issue,…

Emotional ‘Un-Wellness’ at Heart of Eating Disorders

Articles>Eating Disorders

Regardless of whether a person struggles with an eating disorder that involves too little food (anorexia) or too much food (bulimia or binge-eating), the physical ramifications of the disease can…

Multiple Sex Partners Increases Risk of Drug, Alcohol Addiction

Articles>Addiction Research

New research indicates that having multiple sexual partners leads to an increased risk of becoming addicted to drugs or alcohol. The effect is true for men and women, but more…

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Year: 2013

Year: 2013

When Psychosis Hits Home

What are the Best Internet Filtering and Accountability Programs for Recovering Sex Addicts?

An Interview with Sue Levitan, Primary Therapist

5 Fears About Trauma Therapy (and the Rationale for Overcoming Them)

Staring Down the Void: What to Do With Yourself After Quitting the Bottle

‘Fat Talk’ and ‘Old Talk’ Don’t Do a Body Good

An Interview with Leslie Binch, Primary Therapist

Reading Faces Can Be Tough for Bipolar Patients, Study Finds

Emotional ‘Un-Wellness’ at Heart of Eating Disorders

Multiple Sex Partners Increases Risk of Drug, Alcohol Addiction

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Year: 2013

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