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PTSD Sufferers Use More Medical Marijuana, Study Finds

/ Articles>Trauma and PTSD

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is a well-known mental health condition that doctors can diagnose 30 days or more after a person goes through certain highly stressful, life-changing experiences. Individuals affected by this condition can experience a range of symptoms that seriously interfere with their ability to function or feel mentally/emotionally secure. In a study published […]

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Which People Tend to Seek Treatment for Gambling Disorder?

/ Articles>Addiction Research

Gambling disorder (compulsive gambling) is the name of an officially recognized non-substance-based addiction that features problematic and dysfunctional involvement in one or more types of gambling. As is true with other forms of addiction, many of the people affected by this disorder never seek or receive treatment for their condition. In a study published in

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Talking Through Trauma an Important Part of Healing

/ Articles>Mental Health, Articles>Therapy, Articles>Trauma and PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder is one emotional reaction to having lived through an intense experience. Certainly the horror and stress of war are capable of affecting a person long after the immediacy of battle has passed. But war is far from the only trauma which can imprint on a person’s emotional state. Trauma can take many

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Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Gambling Addicts

/ Articles>Addiction Treatment

People diagnosed with gambling disorder have an addiction to participating in one or more types of gambling activity. Specialists commonly refer to this non-substance-related condition as a form of behavioral addiction. In a study published in April 2014 in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, researchers from Canada’s University of Toronto investigated the

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ECT Reduces Mortality in Patients with PTSD and Major Depression

/ Articles>Trauma and PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and complex anxiety disorder that can affect anyone who experiences or even witnesses a traumatizing event. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is exactly what it sounds like – more than mild depression, it is long-term depression that interferes with a person’s ability to carry on a normal life. When

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Found Effective for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

/ Articles>Mental Health

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an illness characterized by stormy relationships, low self-regard and problems managing strong emotions. People with BPD are more frequently hospitalized for psychiatric care than patients with other kinds of personality disorders or those with major depression. How to successfully reduce the number of required inpatient services was the subject of

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