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Effects of Drug Abuse on the Skin
Drug abuse can show on your body, especially if you have had an addiction for many years. It doesn’t take long for the skin to reflect an addiction, and the results can be dramatic. Someone with a drug addiction may appear older than they are, because drug abuse can sap your body of essential nutrients…
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Postpartum Depression Treatment for You and Your Family
The weeks after a birth are supposed to be a soft landing. For a lot of new mothers, they aren’t. If the sadness hasn’t lifted, if you feel disconnected from your baby, or if the worst thoughts have started showing up, that’s not a character flaw and it isn’t the “baby blues.” It may be…
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The Effects of Drug Abuse On Your Intelligence Capabilities
The effects of drug abuse include many serious long-term consequences to your health. Drugs also have many effects on the brain, causing changes in brain chemistry, nerve functioning, and damage to brain cells and nerve cells. This can lead to loss of memory, decreased cognitive ability, and negative affects on learning processes.
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Family Counseling’s Role in Overcoming Codependency
You’ve spent years managing someone else’s moods, covering for their choices, and bracing for the next crisis. Somewhere along the way your own needs stopped registering. That pattern has a name. Codependency describes a way of relating in which one person’s sense of worth gets tied almost entirely to caretaking another, often someone with a…
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Dealing with substance dependence through family therapy
Substance dependence rarely stays contained to one person. It reshapes the household around it. The partner who covers for missed work, the parent who lies awake waiting for a text back, the adult child who has learned to read a mood before saying a word. By the time someone reaches treatment, the family has usually…
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Depression Treatment For Strong Women
Being capable doesn’t protect you from depression. Some of the women who struggle most are the ones who hold everything together for everyone else: the manager who never misses a deadline, the mother whose kids never go without, the friend everyone calls in a crisis. Strength and depression live in the same person all the…
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Explaining Drug Rehab for Women To Your Family
Telling your family that you need treatment is one of the hardest conversations a woman can have. The fear of judgment, the worry about how a partner or parent will react, the sense that you’ve let people down: those feelings are real, and they’re a big part of why so many women wait far longer…
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Strong Women In Literature Who Defy Stereotypes of Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression show up everywhere in the stories we tell. Turn on a drama or open a novel and you’ll find a woman wrestling with worry, grief, or a sadness she can’t name. The feelings themselves are ordinary. Most of us have felt anxious before a first day at a new job, or low…
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Coping with Anxiety and Depression After Drug Rehab
Finishing rehab is supposed to feel like the hard part is over. For a lot of people, especially women, it’s the moment anxiety and depression move to the front. The drinking or the drug use quieted those feelings for a while, or covered them up, and once the substance is gone the underlying condition is…
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The Effects Of Drug Abuse On The Stomach
Drug abuse can have a significant impact on the human body. Most anti-drug campaigns focus on the interpersonal and overall physical damage caused by drug abuse, but the public is rarely made aware of the specifics concerning the effect drugs have on your body. Your gastrointestinal, or GI, tract is a dynamic system of organs…
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The Truth About Bath Salts
The name sounds harmless. “Bath salts” calls to mind something you’d dissolve in warm water at the end of a long day. The drugs sold under that label do the opposite. They’re synthetic stimulants that can drive a person into agitation, paranoia, and full psychosis, sometimes within hours of a single dose. For the family…
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Women and Codependency
Codependency has been recognized in the treatment field since the late 1970s. The pattern was first identified when clinicians studying the families of people with alcohol addiction noticed similar dynamics across households. While the term has since expanded to include the loved ones of people with chronic illness and mental illness, it’s still most often…
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