Should We Try to Prevent PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a debilitating mental illness formed after a painful or terrifying experience. Many different situations can trigger PTSD, but...
Month: February 2017
Need Another Reason to Exercise? Stress Relief!
In some people, stressful events can be so impactful on a person’s life that their psychological, behavioral, and cognitive responses can be compromised or chan...
Anxiety and College Students: Finding a Balance
Everyone experiences stress at different times in their lives, whether it has to do with school, work, family, or just life in general. Stress isn’t always a ba...
The Fallacy of Drug Scheduling
And by drug scheduling, I mean that of the United States Food and Drug Administration. And by that of the United States Food and Drug Administration, I mean lis...
How Stressful Memories Contribute to Anxiety
Think back to your most vivid memory. I would guess you can remember just about every detail about that situation. What time of day it was, where you were, what...
PTSD in the US Military
PTSD is very common among military men and women. Because they are often found in high stress, intense life-or-death situation, they experience traumatic events...
School Test = Bear Attack
We are living in a higher state of anxiety than we were biologically made for. Our brains were made for us to remember stressful situations that would help us t...
Locking Away Mental Illness
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law a landmark piece of legislation titled the Community Mental Health Act (CMHA). Its purpose was to redirect fu...
An Alternate View of Schizophrenia
The overall issue with Schizophrenia comes during development in many cases. Of course, there are always different cases that may involve drug use to induce thi...
Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Schizophrenia
Up until recently, my knowledge of the psychiatric disease, schizophrenia, was pretty limited, and I think many others can relate. All I really knew was ...