How is Cocaine Linked with HIV?
HIV is a retrovirus that infects the immune system cells. There are studies that shows that cocaine exposure can make it easier to contract HIV. It is important to abstain from cocaine to prevent being contracted by this disease as soon as possible because addiction is already a brain disease so another disease should not be added onto it. HIV [...]
How Being Assertive Will Make You a Stronger Person
Being assertive means that you know what you want and are not afraid to express your wants to other people. It does not mean that you need to be aggressive in which you use scare tactics to be heard. By being assertive, you are voicing your wants and needs but are considerate of the rights, wants, and needs of others. [...]
What Are Some Useful Family Therapy Techniques?
There are no perfect families as all families have issues that they need to overcome. Luckily, there are plenty of methods that family therapists use in order to put together a broken family. Family therapy is a good way for each family unit to voice out their struggles and to create a plan to make sure everyone gets along. What [...]
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 fall asleep. Because anxiety can keep us up, it is important that we change our thought patterns. The best way to fall asleep is to [...]
How Do I Live a Healthy Lifestyle?
Living a healthy lifestyle means taking care of yourself in a way where you body and your mental health is not in danger. Smoking, doing drugs, and drinking alcohol would not be a way to repay your body for supplying you with the lungs that help you breathe and a heart to keep your blood pumping. You can easily live [...]
How Fitness Apps Can Make Eating Disorders Worse
Fitness apps can make dieting easier. Instead of writing on a piece of paper with a calculator by your side to add up your calories, the app will do it for you. While these apps were made with good intentions, an article on Broadly proves that people with eating disorders will abuse these apps to support their unhealthy eating habits. [...]
What is the Best Way to Make a Decision?
Making important decisions can be tough whether it is at work or in your life in general. It can be scary because you do not always know what the correct choice is that will have the outcome you are looking for. The University of Dartmouth’s decision-making method shows you how to make a decision using different scenarios and picking the [...]
The Effects of Alcohol to the Brain
When you are drunk, your speech may slur, have clumsy movements, energized or sulken attitude. This is because alcohol may go down to your stomach but the euphoric effects go to your brain. It is important to know how alcohol impacts your brain so that you are aware of the dangers and get help as soon as possible. Alcohol affects [...]
How Does Peer Pressure Contribute to Substance Abuse?
Peer pressure is when someone is urging you to trying something new. You could have initially said no but that person is giving you all of the reasons why you should try it. Peer pressure can be used to experiment with drugs or alcohol in order to fit in but positive peer pressure can lead someone into recovery. Whether you [...]
The Reason We Binge Eat in the Evening
Binge eating is when you are uncontrollably eating until you are too sick to keep at it. It can be because you are so stressed throughout the day that you decide to have a late night snack or it is a routine to eat a lot of food at a certain time in the day. Based on a study by [...]