Clinical Insights
Authoritative articles and resources to help navigate the complexities of behavioral health.
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Ambien Is Effective, but Is It Safe?
Insomnia is rarely a stand-alone problem. It is usually a symptom of something else, and it is remarkably common: up to half of adults experience insomnia symptoms at some point, and roughly 10 to 15 percent meet the criteria for chronic insomnia. Women are affected more often than men, a pattern researchers tie in part…
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Drug Use and Mental Illness
When someone you love is drinking too much or using drugs, it’s tempting to treat that as the whole problem. Often it isn’t. For a lot of people, the substance use sits on top of a mental health condition that came first and never got named. Treat the drinking alone and the depression, the anxiety,…
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OCD 101: The Signs and Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental health condition built on a punishing loop: an unwanted thought arrives, the anxiety becomes unbearable, and a repeated behavior briefly quiets it. Then the thought comes back. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 2.3% of U.S. adults experience OCD at some point in their lives. Symptoms…
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Compulsivity vs. Impulsivity: What’s the Difference?
Impulsivity and compulsivity both get treated like character flaws. In a healthy brain, they’re closer to tools. The capacity to act fast on incomplete information keeps people alive in a crisis, and the capacity to repeat a behavior until it becomes automatic is how habits get built. Trouble starts when either one runs without a…
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Meet Lystra Lewis, Family Therapist
Lystra Lewis is a family therapist at Destination Hope, where she leads the family program and helps loved ones understand what recovery from mental illness and co-occurring substance use actually asks of them. We sat down with her to talk about her path into the work, what makes family therapy effective, and what she wishes…
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What Is the Best Remedy to Fight off Depression After Consuming MDMA and Methamphetamine?
If you’ve come down from MDMA or methamphetamine and found yourself flattened by depression, you’re searching for something to make it stop. The honest answer is that there’s no supplement, no quick fix, and no over-the-counter remedy that safely undoes what these drugs do to the brain. What helps is understanding why the low hits…
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Meth Use – Signs, Symptoms & Things to Know
If you’re watching someone you love change in ways you can’t explain, you’re probably reading this with a knot in your stomach. Methamphetamine, known on the street as meth, crystal, ice, or chalk, is a powerful stimulant in the amphetamine family. It’s sold illicitly as a bitter, odorless white crystalline powder, and it reshapes how…
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How Stress and Anxiety Are Linked to Hair Loss
You step out of the shower, run a towel over your head, and there it is: a clump of hair where a few strands should be. Or you notice the drain clogging faster, the brush filling up, the pillowcase collecting more than it used to. That moment is frightening, and the fear itself adds to…
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Vitamin D, an Underappreciated Adjunctive Therapy for Depression
If you’ve been reading about vitamin D and depression, you’ve probably seen two very different headlines. One says low vitamin D causes depression and a supplement can fix it. The other says clinical trials found nothing. Both oversimplify what the research actually shows. The honest version is more useful, especially if you’re trying to help…
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From Bad to Worse: 5 Reasons Why Snorting Pills is Harmful
Most of us picture the same scene when we think of snorting a drug: the rolled-up bill, the line of white powder, the cut and the trail. Cocaine made that image famous, but it’s far from the only substance people inhale. Heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription medications all get crushed and snorted, including opioid painkillers like…
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