Fat Talk Isn’t Just for Young Women, Research FindsArticles>Eating DisordersBy The RanchOctober 24, 2013Fat talk is a term that mental health professionals sometimes use to describe spoken statements that emphasize concerns about one’s weight or make negative comparisons with other people’s weight. While many of these statements seem superficially harmless, current evidence indicates that they contribute significantly to a state of mind called body dissatisfaction. In turn, the… Details
How to Work Step ElevenArticles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchOctober 21, 2013Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step eleven, like step ten, is not a step that is worked once and then forgotten. Instead, it is part of an ongoing… Details
How to Work Step TenArticles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchOctober 7, 2013Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step ten in most respects is the logical culmination of the previous nine steps. In essence, the first nine steps are about stopping the bleeding of addiction, and then identifying and cleaning up the wreckage of our pasts. Step ten begins the… Details
Study Examines Whether Mental Fatigue Influences Gambling BehaviorsArticles>Mental HealthBy The RanchSeptember 22, 2013Understanding how gambling behaviors develop into pathological gambling patterns is becoming more important as the opportunities to gamble have increased. There have been significant access changes because online gambling is readily available to those who possess a smartphone or a laptop. Given that gambling can be done just about anytime and anywhere, there are many… Details
How to Work Step NineArticles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchSeptember 20, 2013Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. After working step eight, you should have a list of people you have harmed and you should be willing to make amends to them all. If so, then you are ready to work step nine. Step nine… Details
The Ranch Treatment Center Opens New House with Intensive Focus on Dialectical Behavior TherapyArticles>NewsBy The RanchSeptember 19, 2013The Ranch opens Mill House, a 14-bed southern mansion for women with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse that provides intensive education and training in dialectical behavior therapy. Nunnelly, TN (PRWEB) August 27, 2013 – The Ranch treatment center opens Mill House, a brand new 14-bed facility for women with co-occurring mental illness and/or substance… Details
Autism and Asperger’s May Be Different DisordersArticlesBy The RanchSeptember 19, 2013Autism spectrum disorders and Asperger’s syndrome have long been lumped together, although they have different names. Both are developmental disorders that affect the way in which a child relates to the world. Recently, psychiatric experts made their connection official by declaring that Asperger’s is a type of autism. The declaration has proven to be controversial… Details
How to Work Step EightArticles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchSeptember 16, 2013Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. All of the steps from four onward are concerned with interpersonal relations – how we interact in the wider world, including the pain we cause, the resentments we form, etc. The process, essentially, is: To look back… Details
Debt Is Hazardous to Your Mental HealthArticles>Mental HealthBy The RanchSeptember 4, 2013Have you ever struggled with credit card debt, paying only the minimum each month? Have you gotten to the end of the month only to find your checking account overdrawn and your bills piling up? Do you look at your student loans and see years of payments in your future? If so, you know what… Details
Women’s Prescription Painkiller Deaths Up 400 PercentArticles>Addiction ResearchBy The RanchSeptember 1, 2013In 2010, 6,600 women died from prescription painkiller overdose, according to a report that was recently released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Just as alarming, for every woman who dies from these medications, 30 will visit the emergency room for painkiller abuse or misuse. Prescription painkillers can be an appropriate and effective way… Details
