How to Find the Right Support for Panic Disorders in Recovery When people struggle with mental health issues, it can feel like a huge burden on top of addiction and recovery. Panic disorders are difficult for people to navigate because they are a form of anxiety, characterized by heightened fear. It has a lot to…
What Are Psychosocial Stressors and How Do They Impact Recovery? Addiction has a tremendous impact on people’s lives, especially on their mental and physical well-being. Long after they stop using drugs, they are likely to be triggered by current events or people that send them back to the past. These memories result in the brain’s…
How Does Alcoholism Impact People with Borderline Personality Disorder? Whether it is genetics or environment, or a combination of the two, alcoholism has a detrimental effect on people’s lives. Their relationships, work, personal lives, and health all suffer as a result of long term alcohol abuse. In addition, many people suffer silently with borderline personality…
Does Anxiety Play a Role in Relapse? Relapse can be triggered by many things in recovery. A person can be simply out for a walk when a memory, thought, or sensation pops into their head and hijacks the brain. It makes it seem like everything they learned in recovery or thought they knew about themselves…
What is Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Professionals? Professionals who struggle with addiction and mental health issues often struggle in silence. Any executive can develop addiction and mental health issues. No lawyer, doctor, or other professional is immune. While lawyers may have money and power, they also have the same issues in life others have, on…
Try These Tips to Cope with Clinical Depression Symptoms Dealing with depression can feel lonely and difficult for millions of people who suffer. Clinical depression can often take a person out of life and down the rabbit hole of painful experiences, including substance abuse, which alters their lives until they find healing. Learning how to…
Why Are Executives Struggling with Mood Disorders and Addiction? People are expected to be uber productive these days. This means getting more stuff done at a more rapid pace. Mental health and wellness is suffering, especially in the c-suite and boardrooms across America. While many things drive addiction and mood disorders, nobody is really immune.…
Stress Relief is Key to Navigate the Challenges of Addiction for Lawyers Lawyers are not immune to the stress and challenges of life and work. They have higher rates of substance abuse because of their profession, some of it due to personality, and other due to the myriad ways addiction can take over a person’s…
Why Do Lawyers Wrestle with Depression? Lawyers are not immune to feeling the effects of mental health challenges. Depression, anxiety, and other issues plague them in the profession for various reasons. Studies show that lawyers can struggle with mental health issues like depression starting in law school due to pressures to succeed, pass tough exams,…
Try These 3 Ways to Honor Your Emotional Self Care Plan Self-care can be seen as a challenge for people in recovery. Emotionally, you are fragile and feeling worn out, most likely, and just want to sit back for a bit. When you are in recovery, you cannot afford to not do the work. There…