Anxiety in Men and Its Hidden Identifying Symptoms
Anxiety in men manifests itself differently than anxiety in women does. For starters, it can often be difficult to diagnose a man as having an anxiety disorder as men are known to often repress their symptoms and therefore aren’t prone to discussing them. Men will often try to soothe their symptoms of anxiety with drugs and alcohol rather than consult a doctor like women are more inclined to do. This is most likely why women are statistically “more likely” to suffer from anxiety than men are, as men will continuously strive to figure out ways to cope with their symptoms and suffer in silence.
How Addiction Counseling Can Help You
Addiction counseling is a necessary part of any drug or alcohol rehabilitation program. Therapy plays such an integral role in the treatment process that the vast majority of addicts experience a relapse within their first year if they don’t go through some form of treatment. While coming to terms with the fact that you have […]
Evening Outpatient Drug and Alcohol Rehab
Outpatient drug and alcohol rehab is a vital part of the recovery process. While it is traditionally recommended that addicted individuals enter some sort of residential treatment program initially to jump-start their recovery, addiction specialists quickly realized that some sort of intermediate level of care was necessary to help recovering addicts avoid the temptation of […]
Bipolar Disorder in Women Commonly Misdiagnosed
Bipolar disorder in women is misdiagnosed almost three times as often as it is in men. Without question, bipolar disorder can be challenging for even trained professionals to properly diagnose the first time around. Since the calling card of this psychiatric condition is recurring bouts of depression (the depressive phase), mixed with an unusually elevated […]
Learning to Live with an Anxiety Disorder
Forty million Americans currently suffer from an anxiety disorder, a statistic that has been skyrocketing over the last few decades, but why? In spite of the vast number of women diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder – twice as many as men, anxiety in women is actually thought to be under-diagnosed in the United States. […]
What Parents Need to Know About Teen Substance Abuse
Substance abuse is on the rise in most age and gender groups in the United States, and that includes America’s teen population. While certain categories of drugs have leveled off, alcohol, inhalants and prescription opiate use have continued to climb. These substances pose a serious threat to the health and well-being of America’s teens. While […]
Study on Rising Alcoholism Rates Among U.S. Women
Alcohol rehab is a recognized part of our society, although the general public usually associates it with men. This is almost certainly because the overwhelming percentage of alcoholics in this country are male, but a new study conducted at Columbia University is reporting on how those percentages could be evening out faster than anyone realizes. […]
Understanding Depression in Women
Depression in women affects one out of every eight women in the United States according to the National Mental Health Association. Even with depression being so common, there’s still a great deal about the illness that the average person doesn’t know.
Compulsive Eating Not Like Other Eating Disorders
Compulsive eating is an eating disorder that, unlike anorexia and bulimia, affects both sexes in high proportion. It goes by several other names such as compulsive overeating and food addiction and is characterized by an individual who has an obsessive relationship with food. Sufferers tend to be overweight as a result of their uncontrollable eating […]
Eating Disorder Treatment
Eating disorder treatment is something that every quality drug and alcohol treatment facility should provide due to the frequency eating disorders occur with addiction. An additional dual diagnosis, eating disorders and substance abuse can be so intertwined that they will often feed off of each other and exacerbate the other’s symptoms. The most important thing […]