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

MARCH 31, 2017

Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. The clinician goes on to explain that depression is a brain disease, and that your biological wiring, in combination with sufficient life stress, has led you to become depressed. Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatry Clinic Disorder 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

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I didn't want to attract attention to myself and assumed that a hospital emergency room had bigger problems than a depressed but cooperative patient. Schizophrenia? I wondered.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

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