Help With Anger Key to Preventing PTSD After a Natural Disaster Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJune 2, 2015In combination with ongoing stress exposure, anger helps explain the damaging mental health impacts of living through a natural disaster, a team of Australian researchers report in a recent study.
When Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders Co-Occur Articles>Eating DisordersBy The Ranch TNMay 31, 2015Eating disorders alone are serious illnesses, but when they co-occur with substance abuse, the stakes are raised even higher. Research tells us that close to half of the people struggling with an eating disorder are also abusing substances. This is a rate of substance abuse that is about five times higher than in the general… Details
Why Do People With PTSD Relive Traumatic Experiences? Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 31, 2015People with PTSD may relive their traumatic experiences because they overgeneralize their memories, according to recent findings from a group of American researchers.
Snus Use Steeply Increases Odds for Alcoholism Articles>Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismBy The Ranch TNMay 30, 2015Use of the smokeless tobacco product snus can sharply increase the chances that an adult will develop alcoholism by the time he or she reaches middle age, according to new research findings from a team of Swedish scientists. Consumption of nicotine/tobacco in the form of cigarettes is firmly linked to increased odds for the eventual… Details
Pornography Overuse, Addiction Impair Sexual Activity in Men Articles>Sex AddictionBy The Ranch TNMay 29, 2015Overexposure to pornography and addiction to pornography can have a number of serious consequences. More and more men are finding that among those consequences is a loss of interest in sexual activity with real-life partners and often a lack of ability to perform during sexual encounters.
What to Do When You Love Someone With a Personality Disorder Articles>Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 26, 2015Most of us have had someone in our lives who stirs up trouble. Think of the co-worker who undermines colleagues. Or the parent who’s the master of emotional blackmail, alternately giving, then taking away love and approval. Or the perpetually hostile ex-wife who keeps dragging her former husband back into court.
Reinventing Ourselves After Rehab RecoveryBy The Ranch TNMay 26, 2015Stepping into the real world after rehab feels a bit like riding a bike and taking the training wheels off for the first time. We feel shaky and uncertain. We feel afraid that we might fall and unsure of our own ability to live without the crutch of a drink or a drug.
A Link Between Depression and Low Vitamin D Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 23, 2015Low vitamin D has been hailed as critical to bone and muscle development, and suspected as a factor in certain diseases, now including depression. A new study from Oregon State University (OSU) found that healthy young women with vitamin D deficiency have higher incidence of clinical depression, a disabling mental disorder that cloaks a person… Details
9 Signs That You Have a Gambling Problem Articles>Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 21, 2015Addiction is stealthy, nasty and unpredictable. In reality there is no reliable defense against addiction besides abstinence — don’t start drinking, drugging or gambling in the first place and nothing bad can happen. But human beings will always engage in a certain amount of risky behavior, putting themselves in the crosshairs without fully considering the… Details
Feelings of Defeat, Entrapment Predict Suicide Risk in PTSD Sufferers Articles>Trauma and PTSDBy The Ranch TNMay 19, 2015A team of British researchers has concluded that the presence of two related emotions—defeat and entrapment—is a prominent source of suicidal risk in post-traumatic stress disorder patients. People affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have heightened chances of thinking about suicide and making suicide attempts. This fact holds true even when the impact of co-existing… Details
