Loving Someone with Anxiety and Depression
When you love someone with anxiety and depression, your daily life often feels like navigating a complex emotional landscape with shifting terrain. Depression may manifest as a heavy, immovable cloud of exhaustion and withdrawal, while anxiety acts as an intrusive, high energy state of fear and restlessness. This combination, known clinically as comorbidity, presents unique […]
Marijuana and Schizophrenia – Is There a Link?
Today, marijuana is more accepted for everyday and recreational use than at any other point in history. In fact, with 18 U.S. states offering legalized recreational usage, it’s become common to use cannabis in a similar fashion to alcohol in many places. While that legalization offers avenues to safely explore a low-risk drug without breaking […]
Recognizing Lesser-Known Symptoms of Depression
In 2020, 8.4% of the adult population, or 21 million people aged 12 or older, experienced a major depressive episode with severe impairment to their life. In addition, 21% of the population struggles with a mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, or paranoia. Yet, for many of us, those disorders go unrecognized and undiagnosed, often […]
The Connection Between Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Today, an estimated 40.3 million Americans over the age of 12 struggle with a substance use disorder, commonly known as addiction. That epidemic of substance abuse maps closely to the 52.9 million Americans over the age of 18, or 21% of the adult population, who have a mental illness. Most importantly, with 17 million Americans […]
