What Does it Mean to Gender Transition?
Many people who are transgender want to do something about the bodies that they feel do not match their gender of choice. Transitioning is the process of making certain changes in order to live as [...]
Dianna De La Garza Talks of Family’s Addiction and Mental Illness
There have been a lot of memoirs about people battling their own addictions. This memoir, “Falling with Wings: A Mother’s Story,” is about Demi Lovato’s mother, Dianna De La Garza, coming clean about her family’s [...]
Somatic Symptom Disorder
When someone is obsessively worrying that any minor physical problem can be a serious illness, you might have somatic symptom disorder which used to be known as hypochondria. This is having excessive and unrealistic worries [...]
Dear Evan Hansen: A Musical That Tackles Mental Illness
Musicals have the power to get through an audience not just with their powerful dialogue but with songs that send a message of what the characters are feeling. If we can leave the show learning [...]
How to Fall Asleep When You Are Nervous
It can be hard to fall asleep when we have so many worries that we know we have to tackle. That stress can keep us up all night and make it harder for us to [...]
Using Technology to Help Understand the Language of Depression
Doctors diagnose patients for depression based on the way someone moves, sleeps, interacts, speaks, and their expressions. If depression goes undiagnosed, people will go without treatment. What if technology was able to see the signs [...]
Football Player Brandon Brooks Comes Out About His Anxiety
There is still a stigma towards anxiety. People can be ashamed to talk about having anxiety because they may find it a sign of weakness or feel like people will find this too common a [...]
Ten Miles One Way: A Book of Young Love and Bipolar Disorder
Fiction books can be a great way to learn about something going on today that you did not know about such as mental illness. Bipolar disorder is when you have your manic highs and your [...]
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
When kids suffer from trauma that came from their parents at a young age, placing them in a new home does not mean that their problems are over but that new ones are beginning. Children [...]
You Should try Yoga in Recovery – Here’s Why
Yoga is one of the most popular and widespread fitness movements in the U.S. today, and there’s no surprise why. Whether people try it to lose weight, become more flexible or embrace their inner zen, [...]