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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Medication Enhances OCD Treatment

October 11, 2011 / Articles

Since a person is multi-dimensional, doesn’t it make sense that treatment of a person’s illness could be enhanced when delivered using a multi-dimensional approach – particularly if the illness manifests on more than one level? That was the idea behind recent research that tested various methodologies for the treatment of pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder.

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Why People with Depression Hide Their Symptoms from Doctors

October 7, 2011 / Articles

If you felt depressed, would you tell your doctor during your next appointment? Most people say no. That question and its answer are being discussed among mental health professionals across the country.

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Women with Sexually Addicted Husbands Often Neglected for Treatment

October 7, 2011 / Articles>Sex Addiction

In a situation few spouses openly address, many are suffering in silence as their partner lives with sexual addiction or a condition like intimacy anorexia. Both can mean deep physical and emotional deprivation with serious consequences for a spouse – but recovery is possible, with many experts continuing to emphasize the need for both partners

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Pioneer in Integrative Medicine from The Ranch Offers Strategies for Treatment of Binge Eating Disorder and Obesity

September 27, 2011 / Articles>Eating Disorders, Articles>News

A staggering number of people are struggling with obesity and binge eating disorder. According to the eating disorder specialists at The Ranch (Tennessee) rehabilitation center, now more than ever it is critical for health care providers and treatment professionals to be familiar with how to diagnose and effectively treat these conditions. On October 21, from

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Thoughts on Never Giving Up

September 15, 2011 / Articles>Early Recovery

“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” – Larry Bird, former American NBA basketball player and coach, Basketball Hall of Fame player who played for the Boston Celtics, widely considered one of the greatest all-around basketball players in the history of the game (born 1956).

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Anorexia Fulfills Need to Belong

September 13, 2011 / Articles>Eating Disorders

Anorexia nervosa is very difficult to treat. Patients often struggle to maintain healthy eating choices after finishing treatment and relapse easily. The danger of relapse is significant: Of all mental disorders, anorexia has the highest death rate, higher than either schizophrenia or depression.

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5 Signs Sex Is Undermining Your Recovery

September 8, 2011 / Articles

Sex is a natural, healthy part of relationships, but it is also a major cause of relapse among the newly sober. For some, unhealthy sexual behaviors and relationship patterns are cross-addictions that fully emerge once drugs and alcohol are out of the picture. For others, one soured relationship can trigger a surge of dysfunctional thoughts

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Women with Post-Traumatic Stress More Likely to Have Premature Babies

September 6, 2011 / Articles>Trauma and PTSD

Women who are pregnant who and who also have post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) suffer more severe symptoms than others do, including nightmares, irritability, and insomnia. Now a new study finds that a mother’s PTSS can adversely affect her baby.

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Difficulty Versus Opportunity

September 1, 2011 / Articles

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. ” – Winston Churchill, English statesman, orator, soldier and historian, served as Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of the Second World War and again from 1951-1955 (1874-1965) Imagine for a moment what would have happened if God

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Depression Around the World

August 19, 2011 / Mental Health

Turns out that being healthy, wealthy and well-educated in a highly developed country doesn’t make you any happier than anyone else, or so says a recent study. The study, organized by the State University of New York: Stony Brook, polled nearly 90,000 people in 18 countries in an effort to map out occurrences of major

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