Why Mental Health And Behavioral Health Confuse You

Mental Health And Behavioral Health Shouldn’t Have To Confuse You Since Covid we’ve gotten even more confused about the difference between Mental Health and Behavioral Health. But the terms shouldn’t drive us crazy. Mental health, behavioral health, and mental illness are not taught the way physical health is. It means you probably know your family […]
Who Should We Call Difficult People

Difficult People May Not Be What You Think Do you feel surrounded, or tortured by, difficult people? If you’re a designated easy-going person, like me, you may attract controlling and manipulative people who constantly put you down and try to dominate you. If you’re agreeable and accommodating, you may feel unappreciated, put upon, and hurt […]
Teen rage: Young Men And Their Brains

Teen Rage And Hurt Can Turn To Mass Shooting Teen rage comes from people being hurt and then hurting others, but what can we do about it? From the Washington Post: When Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl learned that the perpetrator of the Uvalde, Tex., school massacre was a young man barely out of adolescence, it was […]
Treating A Case Of Toxic Anger

Toxic Anger Can Ruin Your Day Or You Can Let Go Have you ever had poison ivy? It’s a miserable rash that seethes, oozes, and blisters. It spreads quickly and can even scar. A recent brush with toxic anger affected me in a similar way. Here’s what happens when you have a run-in with with […]
Mass Shooting And Teen Mental Health

Mass Shooting Trauma Affects Teen Mental Health What Can We Do Can we protect schools and teen mental health from mass shooting by adding guards and fences? Do you really think that making schools like prisons will reduce the trauma and fear teachers and teens are experiencing right now? When schools look and feel like […]
Addict Death: Grief After The Final Goodbye
Grief Losing Someone You Lost Long Ago: An Addict Death Doesn’t Stop The Pain How can you say goodbye—again—to someone you’ve said this to so many times before? Addict death is not just once. It’s grief over and over. There were countless times I was sure I had lost my son, Josh, both emotionally, […]