How Can Outpatient Treatment Help Heal My Trauma If you’ve been through a traumatic event or series of events, therapy is an important next step. That’s true even if you’re not struggling with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Trauma can greatly affect your behavior, your stress response, and your ability to engage with the world, even […]
How to Describe Borderline Personality Disorder to Those Who Don’t Understand
Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD (similar to bipolar disorder) is a severe mental health disorder impacting an estimated 1.6% of all U.S. adults. This disorder is characterized by mood swings, difficulty regulating emotion, and intense emotional responses to stress and triggers. For many, that means depression, impulsive behavior, poor self-esteem, difficult relationships, and an inability […]
The Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health
Lived experiences are the core of who you are, what you have become, and why. No one truly understands where you are today if they don’t know where you’ve been – and that’s especially true with mental illness. Mental health treatment relies on lived experiences, both as a foundation for behavior and a foundation for […]
How to Predict Your Next Bipolar Episode
If you’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder I, II, or III, you know that your mood goes up and down, with manic and depressive cycles. For most of us, that means using medication to manage the ups and downs, taking care to schedule our lives around when we will have energy, and fitting our lives […]
