Posttraumatic stress disorder is an extreme response to severe stressor. It involves recurrent memories of trauma, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, negative emotions and thoughts, and increased arousal. PTSD is the response to a serious trauma as an event that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation where 55% of people report…
Schizophrenia influences the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It involves disordered thinking where ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, lack of emotional expressiveness, and disturbances in movement or behavior. Widespread disruptions in life occur that range from maintaining jobs, living independently, an having close relationships. Schizophrenia is one of the…
We all have our “good” days and our “bad” days. Or we just have our “days.” Some days we’re just breathing, and some days we’re living. Either way, whichever way we have it, it is important to take mental health days. A mental health day may be more than needed after a long exhausting stressful…
Two major depressive disorders are major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder is a sad mood or loss of interest and pleasure with at least 5 symptoms present. Persistent depressive disorder is an individual having a depressed mood for at least 2 years and 1 year for children or adolescents. The epidemiology…
Women are twice as likely as men to have an anxiety disorder and experience greater functional impairment. Possible explanations for gender differences include women may be more likely to report symptoms, men are more likely to be encouraged to face fears and feel a sense of control over situations, women are more likely to experience…
Marijuana is a drug derived from dried and crushed leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant or cannabis sativa. It is most often smoked, but it can be chewed, prepared as a tea, or eaten in baked goods. Hashish is stronger than marijuana and is produced by drying the resin exudate of the tops…
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by hyperactive behaviors that are extreme for a particular developmental period, persistent across different impairment situations, and linking to significant impairments in functioning. There may be particularly difficulty controlling their activity in situations that call for sitting still such as classrooms. They may also experience difficulty getting along with peers caused.…
The purpose of cognitive behavioral therapy is the attend to thoughts, perceptions, judgements, self-statements, and unconscious assumptions through cognitive restructuring such as changing a pattern of thought or changes in thinking that can change feelings, behaviors, and symptoms. Cognitive behavioral therapy is recommended as a treatment for a multitude of mental health issues and disorders such…
After more than a year spent in pandemic lockdown, life seems to be getting back to a pre-COVID-19 activity level. However, the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant is causing growing concern about a resurgence of the virus.First identified in India in December of 2020, the delta variant (also known as B. 1.617.2) swept rapidly through that country…
Fatigue can be one of the first symptoms of depression, and one of the most noticeable. Those with depression might find themselves thinking things like “I’m tired of being tired,” or “I just want to sleep the day away.” Are you wondering why depression makes you tired? We’re here to explore several reasons why those…