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Crisis Support, Self-Harm and Mental Health Safety; Recovery and Relapse Prevention: Continuing Support; Family Support for Mental Health and Addiction; Children and Adolescents: Mental Health and Addiction Support; Perinatal Mental Health: Pregnancy, Postpartum and Family Support; Older Adults: Mental Health, Addiction and Support; Neurodevelopmental Support: Care That Fits the Person.
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Love Avoidance: Understanding Distance and Closeness
Explore the informal term love avoidance, different needs for closeness, and ways to discuss boundaries or seek support without assigning fixed roles.
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Cyclothymic Disorder
Cyclothymia (cyclothymic disorder) is a less severe variant of bipolar disorder characterized by repeated hypomanic and moderate depressive episodes. Cyclothymia affects between 0.4 percent and…
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What Triggers Depression
Roughly one in six individuals will experience depression during their lifetime. Depression can impede daily functioning in lots of areas if left untreated. Some…
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Grandiose Delusions
A delusion of grandeur is an erroneous or exaggerated belief in one’s superiority, majesty, or greatness. An individual may believe they are, for instance,…
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Specialist Assessment and Support
Dissociative identity disorder requires careful assessment, not assumptions based on memory gaps or media portrayals. Learn what specialist care involves, where evidence remains limited,…
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Weed Psychosis
Psychosis is frequently linked with other mental disorders, but drugs can also induce it? Different drugs have long been recognized to induce psychotic symptoms
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Maladaptive Behavior
Maladaptive behavior is a condition that may happen to anyone at some point in life. For instance, children may throw temper tantrums, grownups may…
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Reactive Attachment Disorder
With the right diagnosis, people taking care of children with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) can see meaningful progress. Children frequently experience complex emotions. However, certain…
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Eating disorder test
Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating behaviors and related thoughts or emotions.
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What is a Partial Hospitalization Program
Knowing your options is useful if weekly outpatient therapy programs or sessions are not enough to regulate your mental health. You may have heard of inpatient…
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Impulse Control Disorder
Having a sudden urge, desire, or impulse to do something is a characteristic shared by the majority of people. Still, those of us with impulse…
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Sensory Processing Disorder
Most parents of children with academic and behavioral disabilities may respond affirmatively when asked if their children have difficulties processing sensory information. Most people…
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