Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Blog
What causes Bipolar Disorder and Who does it Affect?
Who is affected? Bipolar disorder affects men, women, children, and adolescents from different ethnic backgrounds and social classes. Like all other...
Trauma and Mental Health
Updated 4/18/25 Trauma and mental health share a prevalent link and are known to be the underlying trigger for multiple substance...
Do I Have Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is generally misconstrued as a disorder of rapidly ricocheting moods that go from deep misery to extraordinarily elevated self-belief...
Treating my Opioid Addiction
Opioids also referred to as prescription pain medicine or narcotics are extremely addicting and lethal, if taken in a high enough...
Do I Have an Opioid Addiction?
According to statistics, opioid addiction affects approximately five million individuals in the United States each year and is responsible for 17,000...
Do I have a Prescription Pill Addiction?
Prescription pill addiction involves more than opioids and other pain medications. Three large classes of prescription pills that are commonly abused...
Treating my Self-Harm Behavior
Self-harm behavior, formally known as nonsuicidal self-injury disorder, is the purposeful action of harming oneself without the intention of committing suicide. It is...
Do I Have an Alcohol Addiction?
How do you know if you have an alcohol addiction? There are many different assessments health care professionals use to screen...
Developing Reactive Attachment Disorder: Is it Avoidable?
Reactive attachment disorder is a childhood mental health disorder where the child does not develop healthy, stable attachments to their parent/caregiver...