Addressing Untreated Mental Illness in the U.S.

Depression can drain people of initiative and desire. When this happens, lots of important things in their life can fall by the wayside, personal hygiene being one of those things. When depression has somebody feeling at their lowest point, the last thing on their mind can be marshaling the strength and focus to take a…

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom has new survey data demonstrating that drug usage jumped and then dropped between 2020 – 2022. It is possible that Covid might have played in these fluctuations. It can be difficult to draw conclusions from just one study, and doctors and healthcare officials often try…

Depression and menopause and both challenging, and often painful, experiences in life. So it can be very trying when they are experienced at the same time, which happens for approximately one in five women. But we should not be surprised that these two conditions often overlap, since we know there is a relationship between hormonal…

Nearly one-fifth of U.S. workers rate their mental health as fair or poor. Generalized across the U.S. workforce, this results in missed work estimated to cost the economy $47.6 billion annually in lost productivity. Although many people and organizations do not treat it as such, mental health is as important as physical health and needs…

About one in every four people experience weight gain from taking the mood stabilizer lithium, as reported by Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Based on the research conducted on this issue, the average weight gain that people who take lithium experience is usually between ten and twenty six pounds. Some studies show that people taking lithium are…

The news media have been covering ways to reduce stress – and whether “holding you hand over your heart” like actor Pablo Pascal can work in this regard. It’s important to understand that stress or anxiety causes your body to release hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline, which can in turn make you even more…