What Are the Health Complications of Heroin Addiction?
Heroin is an opioid drug that is highly addictive and brings about intense feelings of euphoria. Heroin overdoses are very common and taking the lives of many who are untreated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of heroin overdoses has quadrupled since 2010. Learning about the life-changing health complications arising from heroin addiction can convince [...]
The Addiction of Dating Apps
Today, dating can be very easy not just with dating websites but with dating apps too. With Tinder and Bumble, you can just swipe who you like and who you do not that it becomes a game. The winner feels better about themselves and might get into a real relationship. It is important to treat dating apps like something fun [...]
How Do I Know I Am Transgender?
Being transgender means that you feel like you belong with a gender that you were not born with. You feel you do not fit with the gender they are assigned with. You know that you are transgender if you feel like you are trapped in your own body and feel you will not be happy unless you pass as the [...]
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 first based on what is written on social media? A Clinical Psychological Science study was used to accurately predict depression based on what someone has [...]
What is a Healthy Diet?
People have their own methods of eating healthy. Some believe eating no carbs or fat constitutes as healthy as well as no junk food. Eating a healthy diet means eating the best of all of the food groups and being in control of your ingredients and how the meal is prepared. Eat a balanced meal. Eating healthy does not mean [...]
Heroin(e): A Netflix Documentary About the Overdose Capital of the World
Huntington, West Virginia is a blue-collar area that is known as the overdose capital of the world. Because there were a lot of labor workers who would get injured, if they could not get painkillers, they would use heroin. The Netflix short documentary Heroin(e) shows just how bad this small town can get in regard to the opioid crisis and [...]
How Can I Work Well with Others?
If you have been out of work for a long time while being in recovery, there may be some people skills that you need to work on. Skills that will make you stay with a company for a long time is the way you work with others. By thinking of other people are maintaining a positive attitude, people will see [...]
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 problem to take seriously. Philadelphia Eagles guard, Brandon Brooks, decided to break the silence on February 1st about his own anxiety that he has been [...]
How Do I Know I Am Headed Towards Relapse?
Relapsing is when you decide to go back to the habits that you have been trying to steer clear from. You may not want to go back to how you used to be but it has been hard for you to ignore those troubling thoughts telling you to take that drink or drug. Here are some warning signs that you [...]
Ordinary People: A Movie That Tackles Bereavement and Survivor’s Guilt
When someone in your family dies, it has the potential to break a family apart. Each person is affected differently and dealing with their grief in their own way. The 1980 film Ordinary People shows us what happens when death takes a toll on a family and how with the help of treatment, being able to heal from grief becomes [...]