June is Trauma and PTSD awareness month, so I decided it would be a great topic to discuss today. New insights are still being learned about trauma, how it impacts the person and what PTSD is. (PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Somewhere in the vicinity of 7%-8% of Americans will have PTSD sometime in […]

As with any medical disorder, to answer this question, you want to weigh the risks and benefits. Does taking medication outweigh the risks of not taking it? Medication for mental health is just like medication for physical well-being…there can be side effects. Sometimes these side effects are minimal and don’t bother people and other times […]

Job stress is a major contributing factor to mental health. Studies have repeatedly shown that job stress contributes to mental illness, especially depression and anxiety. We often bring home stress from our jobs. This can impact our families and our personal lives in many ways. You may notice being more irritable at home, you may […]

Sometimes people worry that they are going to “pass on” an illness to their child…or that someone else will pass on their illness and make their child “suffer” with the illness. The fact is, there is a genetic component to mental illness. Especially studied have been autism, ADHD, depression, bi-polar, and schizophrenia. The risk of […]