- by Dana Hinders
How would you describe yourself? Are you caring? Are you a good friend? Are you athletic? Are you outgoing? For most of us, our self-image continually evolves based on feedback...
How would you describe yourself? Are you caring? Are you a good friend? Are you athletic? Are you outgoing? For most of us, our self-image continually evolves based on feedback...
When people talk about going to therapy, they often don’t realize that there are many different approaches to treating mental health disorders. One of the most common is dialectical behavior...
You may have dreaded hearing the phrase “you’re grounded” as a child, but grounding techniques are far from being a type of punishment. These strategies can be used to help...
When you’re playing poker, a pair of aces is a strong hand. When you’re talking about how your childhood experiences have affected your mental health as an adult, the calculation...
Bipolar disorder, sometimes referred to as manic depression, affects an estimated 2.8% of adults in the United States—with both men and women having similar rates of occurrence. According to the...
Living with a mental health disorder can be difficult—and many day-to-day challenges are exacerbated by the misconceptions surrounding mental health. Here, the team from Raleigh Oaks Behavioral Health aims to...
When a patient follows the medication recommendations of their doctor, this is called medication adherence. In an ideal world, the doctor prescribes medication, and the patient follows through with purchasing...
If you feel like you’re always tired, you’re not alone. According to the National Sleep Foundation, about half of all U.S. adults say they feel sleepy during the day anywhere...
It’s said that we all have within us, all the time, a place of calm. But when you struggle with mental health issues, it can be hard to access that...
Every time the calendar changes to the new year, we feel compelled to make resolutions for all the ways we’ll become better people. We’ll exercise more, eat less, learn to...