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What is Anger?
There are three types of Anger: Aggressive anger is anger expressed directly to someone or themselves either physically or psychologically. This can be illustrated with yelling or hitting. Passive aggression is when a person internalizes their emotions and avoids dealing with the…
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What is Sexual Dysfunction?
Sexual dysfunction is an issue that can happen in both men and women, and is a disruption of any phase of the sexual response cycle. This cycle typically includes excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. Although sexual dysfunction is seldom talked about due…
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What Causes Alzheimer’s Disease?
What does it do to a person and how is it treated? Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive disease that slowly worsens over time and affects a person’s ability to think and carry out daily tasks. Since it is the most common cause…
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Schizophrenia – Are you hearing or seeing things?
“Are you hearing or seeing things that other people can’t”? This is usually the first question I ask someone who I suspect may have Schizophrenia. However, this doesn’t nearly encompass the entirety of this syndrome. The hallmarks of schizophrenia are both positive…
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How do you know if you are an addict? How do we treat addiction.
Recognizing Signs of Addiction Addiction is a complex and chronic disease, often with a relapse and remitting course, which typically manifests as uncontrolled use of certain substances, including a variety of illicit and non-illicit substances, or engagement of behaviors such as gambling…
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What is Stress and How It Affects You.
Stress is a natural and normal reaction that your body has to any change that requires an adjustment or response. In short, anything outside of the status quo is going to cause stress. Even just thinking about something abnormal or different can…
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What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in someone who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war, rape, or who has been threatened…
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What is Dual Diagnosis and how is it treated?
The definition of a dual diagnosis is suffering from both a substance abuse disorder, such as with drugs or alcohol, as well as a mental health disorder like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. It has been found to be difficult to…
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What is OCD?
OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Now what is it? It is diagnoses we give to those have intrusive thoughts about needing to do something repetitively. This can be fixation on cleanliness, certain orders or washing of the hands. This usually causes…
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Who likes to gain weight? Usually not most people.
In fact, many of us are actively working against it in a variety of ways from exercising frequently to modifying our diet. Many of us have heard psychiatric medication impacts weight– and many of them do; however, have you ever been so…
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The 7 Stages of Grief – Dealing with Loss and Sadness
Disbelief and Shock: The initial reaction of loss creates a feeling of numbness and doubt. This form of emotional protection can last from days to weeks. Denial: The mind goes into protection mode to avoid the pain and the reality of…
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What are the first signs of dementia?
– Prior to developing dementia a person will develop symptoms of mild cognitive impairment. Mild cognitive impairment often presents with signs of forgetfulness. For example, you may notice that you commonly set things down and forget where you put them. You may…
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