Meth Addiction and Depression
Being on methamphetamine can give you an initial high or a euphoria where you feel alert, joyful, energetic, or reckless. Because it is slow to metabolize, the symptoms can last for several hours. Meth addiction [...]
How Can Nutrition Affect Academic Performance?
It is true that eating breakfast is the most important meal of the day because you should always start your day off with energy. Food will make an impact on your day physically, socially, and [...]
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 [...]
What is the Best Way to Adjust to New Surroundings?
Moving somewhere new is never easy even if you know how necessary this transition is. You will be in a new place surrounded by new people whether it is a new job, new city, country, [...]
What Challenges Do Transgender Youth Go Through?
Being born in the body of the opposite gender can be hard enough for a teenager. You feel trapped in your own body and wish that the people around you would be more understanding. Transgender [...]
How Do I Know If I Should See a Therapist?
There are people who experience negative feelings and anxieties and do nothing about them. According to The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, only 46-65% go to treatment. Experiencing troubled thoughts that interfere with [...]
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 [...]