How to Find a Rehab Center for Your Loved One
Watching someone you love struggle with addiction is a heartbreaking proposition and a long road. You will find yourself torn between wanting to help and wanting to scream in frustration. Even if you find yourself creating distance and setting much-needed
How Does Rehab Work? A Guide for Addiction Recovery
We know more about addiction than ever before, but it is still a very confusing disease, and that’s true even when you are in the middle of the struggle. It’s hard to understand why you continue to use a drug
What Are Triggers in Addiction? Knowing What to Look Out For
Once you realize that you have a problem with drugs or alcohol, you spend time figuring out how to get sober. After you get sober, then your efforts go toward staying sober. Getting sober and staying sober are two entirely
The Signs of Anxiety in Teens To Look Out for as a Parent
Being a parent is hard and it can feel even more demanding when our children face difficulties. As parents, we want to fix things for our children and prevent them from struggling too much. The teen years can seem particularly
What to Do When Your Teen Is Depressed
Being a parent is hard, and being the parent of a teenager can feel even more challenging. Parenthood doesn’t come with an instruction manual, and it’s hard to know where to get answers. Teenagers are known for their mood swings
Anxiety: What Is It and How Is It Treated?
We all experience times when we feel worried, nervous, or tense. Circumstances with our families, changes in our jobs, world events, or any number of factors can increase our stress and make us feel anxious. But does feeling anxious mean
Separating Behaviors From Thoughts
Ever wondered why we do the things we do? If so, you aren’t alone. Answering the question of why we do what we do has been the unending goal of psychologists, scientists, philosophers, and humans as a whole for centuries.
Choosing Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Young Men
To choose a dual diagnosis treatment plan is to look at two things first: the community which the facility offers, and the lifestyle that’s promoted at the facility. The way we learn to live and the peers and colleagues we
Men’s, Women’s or Co-Ed? Pros and Cons
The debate between whether gender-specific treatment programs or co-ed treatment programs are the right way to go is one debate that doesn’t have a clear winner. Simply put, because addiction is such a personal and complex mental illness, different people
Going to Treatment for Addiction as a Young Man in Santa Monica
Santa Monica-- California’s hidden gem of a city. With a population of a little under 100,000, some might say Santa Monica is one of the few pieces of paradise still basking in all of its natural glory. As a young