Category: Articles>Mental Health

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Category: Articles>Mental Health

How Equine Therapy Helps Treat Sex Addiction

Articles>Mental Health

Sometimes the women and men seeking sex addiction treatment at The Ranch learn that we use equine therapy as part of our healing regimen, and they wonder what they heck…

Five Tips for Mindfulness Parenting in Recovery

Articles>Mental Health

Being a parent can be trying on a good day, crazy-making on a bad one. Even the wisest, most emotionally mature, fully actualized Zen master armed with every possible warm…

Free Your Body of Trauma Response, Conquer Your Shame

Articles>Mental Health

By Christie Bates Often clients will say to me that they’re not so sure about this “trauma resolution” stuff. It’s very body-based, and people usually bring a lot of heady…

The Lasting Damage Caused by Pornography Addiction in Teens

Articles>Mental Health

The idea of pornography addiction and teens suffering from it seems unlikely, but it happens more often than you think. With the availability of pornographic material online and peer pressure…

Drugs for Parkinson’s, Restless Leg Syndrome Linked to Compulsive Gambling, Other Mental Health Disorders

Articles>Mental Health

Researchers have now linked gambling addiction, compulsive shopping, sexual addiction and various other impulse control disorders to medications prescribed for Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome. The evidence for this…

‘Mississippi Grind’ Accurately Portrays Gambling Addiction

Articles>Mental Health

In many ways, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Mississippi Grind” plays more like a documentary detailing the very real rollercoaster of gambling addiction than a drama. Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) is…

Problem Gambling Common Among Homeless

Articles>Mental Health

The link between substance abuse, mental health troubles and homelessness is well-known and established. But much less talked about or understood is the strong connection between problem gambling and homelessness.…

Marijuana Linked to Increased Risk for Alcoholism, Problem Gambling

Articles>Addiction Research

Marijuana/cannabis users have higher rates for alcohol use disorder and problem gambling than people who do not use the drug, a team of American and British researchers has found.

Data Reveal Overlap in ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder

Articles>Mental Health

Findings from a team of German researchers indicate that symptoms of borderline personality disorder and ADHD partially overlap, often appear together and can have unusually damaging consequences when they occur…

7 Very Personal Words of Pastoral Consolation for Parents Grieving the Loss of a Child to Suicide – From a Minister Who Lives With Depression

Articles>Mental Health

In the weeks before he took his own life this September (National Suicide Prevention Month), 22-year-old “Dylan,” a Christian college student at a school in the Southeast, wrote of his…

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Category: Articles>Mental Health

Category: Articles>Mental Health

How Equine Therapy Helps Treat Sex Addiction

Five Tips for Mindfulness Parenting in Recovery

Free Your Body of Trauma Response, Conquer Your Shame

The Lasting Damage Caused by Pornography Addiction in Teens

Drugs for Parkinson’s, Restless Leg Syndrome Linked to Compulsive Gambling, Other Mental Health Disorders

‘Mississippi Grind’ Accurately Portrays Gambling Addiction

Problem Gambling Common Among Homeless

Marijuana Linked to Increased Risk for Alcoholism, Problem Gambling

Data Reveal Overlap in ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder

7 Very Personal Words of Pastoral Consolation for Parents Grieving the Loss of a Child to Suicide – From a Minister Who Lives With Depression

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