Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Although many older adults remain mentally healthy, the World Health Organization says about 15% of adults over 60 have a mental disorder. Identifying disorders “Behavioral health” often refers to mental health , psychiatric care, counseling, and substance use disorders treatment.

Recovery 52

Recovery Disorder Mental Health Substance Abuse 52

MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

For me, I realised in my ongoing journey of mental health recovery, that the days I didn’t create were the days I felt disconnected and more likely to experience intrusive thoughts or unhealthy coping strategies. Creativity can be seen by some, perhaps in past decades, as frivolous.

Schizophrenia 105

Schizophrenia Mental Health Engagement Psychotherapy 105

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 1, 2020

However, this approach is rapidly changing as accumulating evidence shows that loneliness—the distressing feeling that our social relationships are not meeting our needs – has substantial negative impacts on mental and physical health and recovery. For people with psychotic disorders the situation is much worse.

Clinic 52

Clinic Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychology 52

Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

The stigma experienced because of one’s mental illness can in turn exacerbate psychological symptoms and deter treatment-use and recovery, thus further compromising an individual’s mental health (e.g., Would increasing empathy toward people with depression also increase empathy toward people with anxiety? employment discrimination).

Psychiatry 59

Psychiatry Schizophrenia Psychology Empathy 59

Gateway Foundation

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Substance use disorder significantly impacts a person’s life, damaging health, relationships, careers, and finances. People in addiction recovery are at an increased risk of returning to substance use , even years after quitting. Additionally, addiction can worsen mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

Addiction 52

Addiction Paranoia Depression Anxiety 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. What were my symptoms? Low stress threshold.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52