The Connection Between Borderline Personality Disorders & Depression Articles>Mental Health, DepressionBy The Ranch TNSeptember 28, 2018Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health condition in which individuals struggle with intense, volatile and painful emotions, impulsive thoughts and behaviors and persistent feelings of emptiness and abandonment. BPD typically results in problems with self-image, impulses, emotional responses and conflicts with other people including loved ones. Intense, highly changeable episodes of anger, depression and… Details
The Power of Intention in Recovery RecoveryBy The Ranch TNJanuary 15, 2018As a recovering addict, your intentions can be your friend or your enemy, depending on your level of focus and clarity. You have to be clear about what you want before you can choose a constructive and life-affirming path. ACT therapy programs can help you eliminate the confusion that left you lost in the wilderness… Details
Postpartum Depression: Is It Hereditary? Depression, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJanuary 2, 2018“Is depression hereditary?” is one of the many questions undergoing examination and research in the mental health field. Scientists are confident that depression, including postpartum depression, can be inherited.
Help for the Porn-Addicted Christian ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 30, 2017Why would Christians need help for porn addiction? On the surface, it would seem this issue, affecting untold numbers of men and women, wouldn’t even be a concern for those who are biblically called to live a life of sexual purity. Yet the statistics paint a very different picture. Unfortunately, when it comes to porn… Details
African American Veterans Hit Hard by PTSD ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 26, 2017Post-traumatic stress disorder is sadly common among veterans, and the problem is especially acute in the African American veteran population. Studies breaking down the incidence of PTSD by race and ethnicity are still rare among those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Vietnam-era generation has been studied extensively, and this work has confirmed… Details
Are You in Love With a Borderline Personality? ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 25, 2017Understanding love addiction is tricky. It isn’t easy to recognize in yourself because it seems like you are in love with love or deeply in love with your partner, and what’s wrong with that? Love addiction is an unhealthy obsession with love that can cause negative consequences in various aspects of your life. One way… Details
Uncommon Therapies to Get You Out of a Rut ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 24, 2017Do you ever feel like you’re not making progress in therapy? Maybe you return with the same concerns every few weeks and can’t seem to move past them. Perhaps you feel uninspired by your therapist or are tired of talking things over all the time. This “therapy rut” is a frustrating place to be. You… Details
How Love Addiction Keeps You From Finding True Love ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 22, 2017 Love addiction is a tricky thing. You can convince yourself that you just love love. But if your love of love, romance, dating and a bad partner start to interfere with your life, you have to admit that you have a problem. Perhaps the saddest thing about having a love addiction is that it… Details
Efforts to Avoid Porn Can Actually Promote Cybersex Addiction ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 19, 2017Recent evidence from a team of German scientists indicates that purposeful attempts to avoid pornographic material on the Internet can potentially promote the onset of cybersex addiction, just like a tendency to actively seek out pornographic material. People with cybersex addiction have a form of behavioral addiction centered on the use of modern Internet technology… Details
PTSD and Personal Trauma Taught Me How to Help Others Articles, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The Ranch TNMay 18, 2017By Timothy L. Hook, LMSW, CSAT-C, Primary Therapist at The Ranch Trauma and PTSD can devastate individuals. It also pulls families apart. I know this all too well, not just as a counselor at The Ranch, but as someone who’s been exposed to it through childhood trauma and military deployments. You’d think that 14 deployments… Details
