I work with adolescents in residential treatment. That means these teens have multiple problems stacked up in a kind of multi-layered, multi-dimensional, and multi-axial diagnostic “cake.” This suggests the adolescents have had long-standing behavioral, emotional and mental troubles that they have not been able to deal with successfully enough to cope and carry out life in a generally healthful way.

Recovery, of our body, is very important. For us to heal from working out, from stress, from daily life, we need rest, and we need sleep. Sometimes though, while “detoxing”, or just because we are so stressed out, sleep becomes something of the past.

For the first time, researchers show that preventive treatment with an antidepressant medication or talk therapy can significantly reduce the risk or delay the start of depression following an acute stroke, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Depression is a whole body illness. It involves the whole body, it ISNT JUST IN YOUR HEAD! Did you know that the majority of serotonin is produced in your “gut”?

Depression often co-exists with other illnesses. Such illnesses may precede the depression, cause it, and/or be a consequence of it. It is likely that the mechanics behind the intersection of depression and other illnesses differ for every person and situation. Regardless, these other co-occurring illnesses need to be diagnosed and treated.

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings usually pass within a couple of days. When a person has depression, it interferes with his or her daily life and routine, such as going to work or school, taking care of children, and relationships with family and friends.

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
-Chinese Proverb

Now that you’re in treatment for substance abuse, you may begin to have many different feelings. At times, these feelings may be painful, and you may have a hard time understanding or coping with them.

How is it that the Ancient Chinese Warlords lived to 70 years old, when at that time, the average of life expectancy was only about 25? Why is today, we barely live longer? The answer can be found in our health-care system and how we view health.