Reading Time: 3 Minutes “As mental health awareness improves, there comes a troubling trend of young people diagnosing themselves with a mental illness, which can be a mood, personality, or anxiety disorder, but can also range to disabilities like autism or Tourette’s. And while some may relish finally being able to relate to feelings that they’re having, others might […]
Month: February 2022
How Stigmatizing Language in the Mental Health and Addiction Treatment World Affects Treatment
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Language matters, especially when it comes time to mental health and addiction. Fortunately, how we view mental health and addiction has improved dramatically over the past few decades, and even in recent years, we still have a long way to go. For example, many generations have grown up in a society where stigmatizing words such […]
How to Talk to Children About Mental Health
Reading Time: 4 Minutes Children are more tuned in with their surroundings and are much brighter than we, as adults, give them credit for. Often parents, guardians, and educators stray away from talking to children about mental health because we may think and feel they do not understand the subject, or by talking about mental health, we may increase […]
Is There a Relationship Between Eating Disorders and Mental Health Disorders?
Reading Time: 3 Minutes An eating disorder is a psychological disorder that presents through an abnormal obsession with food, calories, weight, body image, and exercise. An individual’s preoccupation with these things interferes with daily life and relationships and is harmful to both the body and the mind. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, defines the […]
How the War on Drugs criminalized Black Americans, creating barriers to treatment
Reading Time: 4 Minutes In the 1970s, U.S. President, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs campaign. Nixon’s severe consequences for illegal and deadly drugs like heroin and crack cocaine crippled the black community in the 1970s and created stereotypes and harsh jail sentences for Black people. For example, the 1986 Anti Drug Abuse Act “created a 100 to […]
Barriers to Mental Health and Addiction Treatment in the Black Community
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “Being a black man in America means being my brother’s keeper. Being a black man in America means being my brother’s keeper while keeping a distance from my brother because I don’t trust him further than I can see him. It’s believing the cops don’t care about you. It’s learning how not to doubt yourself […]
Having Calculated Fun During the SuperBowl and March Madness
Reading Time: 4 Minutes Some of the biggest sports games, the Superbowl and March Madness, are rapidly approaching, and even if you are not a sports fan, there are so many other festivities that are focused around these games. Office draft brackets, the Super Bowl Halftime show and parties, and let’s not forget, the infamous Super Bowl commercials are […]