While the rates of deaths and devastation wrought by ongoing addiction and mental health crises are unprecedented, these problems have always been with us. Despite estimated one-trillion-dollar productivity losses from depression and anxiety and $215 billion productivity losses from addiction annually, treatment resources are vastly outweighed by the need. A major problem is too few […]
Flow can be a tricky state to conceptualize. For something that is different for everyone, it can be hard to say when someone has reached true “flow.” For the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, he described flow as “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, […]
People want pets for many reasons. They’re cute, they’re friendly, and they can keep you company. If you are in your first year or so of recovery, there may be ways that having a pet can actually help you out and make your recovery stronger. However, it’s not a decision to be taken lightly. If […]
Hypnosis has been around for hundreds of years, and during that time, its reputation has periodically risen, fallen, and risen again. It has been used for everything from entertainment to battlefield surgery and some attribute to it near-magical abilities while others believe it’s pure nonsense. Using hypnosis to treat anything is generally based on the […]
Inflammation has been getting a lot of attention in recent years, as research has connected it to a lengthening list of physical and mental health issues. As it turns out, inflammation is relevant to addiction in several ways. It can worsen medical issues associated with excessive drug and alcohol use, it can worsen mental health […]
Detox is the first major hurdle in addiction recovery. Fear of withdrawal keeps many people drinking and using long after they stopped having fun. Withdrawal is often miserable but unfortunately, there’s no way around it. Many treatment programs, particularly residential programs, have medical detox built-in. There are also facilities you can go to specifically to […]
Neuroticism used to be a fairly broad term used to describe certain kinds of psychological disturbances. These days, it’s mostly limited to one of the big five personality traits, which include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, which you can easily remember with the acronym OCEAN. Neuroticism is the tendency to experience negative emotions and […]
This article mentions suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text, or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. “The frequent use of cannabis is associated with a plethora of negative health and social consequences,” wrote Langlois, […]
The USFood and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of cannabis as a treatment for any medical condition. However, after a long legalization campaign, most states now allow “medical” use of marijuana to treat pain, nausea, and other conditions. Twenty-three states, theDistrict of Columbia, and Guam have fully legalized the drug for recreational use as […]
Some federal scientists have reportedly concluded that “marijuana is neither as risky nor as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances and has potential medical benefits, and therefore should be removed from the nation’s most restrictive category of drugs.” This astounding recommendation is contained in a 250-page scientific review “provided to Matthew Zorn, a […]
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