Questions about brain nutrients often come up when patients start looking at mental health and nutrition. What should I eat? Do I need a supplement? Could a deficiency be affecting how I feel? Nutrien...
Many women get through the day by simply not stopping. Work continues, kids get fed, deadlines get met, and everyone around them assumes things are fine. Underneath that, some days feel a little more ...
When someone receives a bipolar disorder diagnosis, one of the first questions they may ask is why. There may not be a neat answer. Researchers have not traced what causes bipolar disorder to one gene...
Something can happen once and still show up in the body years later. A car backfires and a person’s heart pounds before they even register the sound. A hallway smells like a hospital, and their stomac...
Why do you keep reacting the same way, even when you can see it isn’t helping? Maybe you pull back the moment a conversation turns tense, say yes to more than you can handle, or brace for rejection be...
Feeling stuck can be hard enough. Feeling like no one around you understands can make it feel heavier. Many people carry mental health struggles quietly, even with friends and family close by, because...
Before anyone sits down for a first group session, the questions pile up. Will I have to speak right away? What am I supposed to share, and how much? What if everyone else already feels comfortable an...
Two people can go through very different events, receive the same PTSD diagnosis, and still need very different care. PTSD can affect sleep, concentration, mood, relationships, and the way a person re...
Most people picture obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as washing hands too often or checking a lock repeatedly before leaving the house. That picture isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. A lot of what ...
Someone comes in feeling exhausted, flat, and unable to concentrate. They have lost interest in things they once enjoyed, and getting through the day takes more effort than it should. Those symptoms u...
You may still be getting everyone where they need to go, finishing your work, and keeping track of what comes next. From the outside, little seems to have changed. Yet, your patience is shorter, sleep...
You leave your appointment with a good idea, maybe a grounding exercise or a new way to check a worried thought. Then Tuesday happens. Work piles up, the exercise slips your mind, and by the time anxi...
