Do Mental Health Issues Run in Families?
Perhaps the most common question regarding mental illness is “do mental health issues run in families?”. Given the complexity of mental illness, questions of whether mental illness is hereditary are completely valid. While there is solid evidence that mental disorders run in families, is heredity a major factor in the development of mental health issues? […]
10 Ways to Track Your Mental Health
If you’re struggling with mental health, it’s important to stay on top of it. Keeping up with how you’re doing can help you to establish patterns, to recognize when things are actually wrong, and to see when things improve or get worse. That can be difficult because changes to mental health often happen slowly. Like […]
Self-Harm and Cutting – Symptoms and Causes
If you suspect a loved one is harming themselves or cutting, it’s a serious problem and a serious sign that something is wrong. Self-harm, or the act of hurting yourself intentionally, whether by burning, pinching, biting, cutting, or abrading the skin is often not suicidal. Rather, it’s used as an attempt to control emotions and […]
Can I Treat My Mental Health Diagnosis with Cannabis?
The short answer is, it’s highly unlikely that you could treat mental health with cannabis. The longer answer is that cannabis and its impact on mental health is complicated, many of the studies we have are in their infancy, and it’s difficult to say how cannabis will impact any given individual. In fact, the active […]
