The Importance of Life Skills: A Q&A with Sean Rhodes, Life Skills Specialist at Pyramid Healthcare Altoona Detox & Residential Treatment Center
What type of life skills are important to teach to those in recovery? There's a plethora of different things that we teach. [...]
How to Help Your Loved One Avoid Substance Abuse
So you’re out to dinner with some friends and family, and notice one of your loved ones is ordering their third drink — while [...]
Common Stigmas in Mental Health and How to Increase Awareness
The way other people perceive us is important. Not only does it help us assess our own actions and behaviors, but it can guide [...]
Mood Disorders: Types, Causes and Symptoms
Do you experience a constant, underlying feeling of sadness? Maybe you feel tired all day long; the kind of tiredness that doesn’t go away, [...]
Identifying Your Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Everyone experiences bouts of sadness, especially in response to tragedy, loneliness, stress, disappointment and the like. Experiencing sorrow in response to life’s difficult events [...]
A Closer Look at How Nutrition Affects Mental Health
Practicing positive self-talk, repeating affirmations, learning self-love, these are some of the most commonly thought of practices when it comes to ways to improve [...]
Why Your Nutrition is Key to Long-Term Recovery
“Food is thy medicine,” said Hippocrates, the ancient physician universally referred to as the father of medicine. If this statement was true thousands of [...]
Xylazine: What It is and How It Affects Humans
Overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and now a new threat is rising fast: an animal tranquilizer [...]
The Different Ways Trauma Affects Our Lives
Trauma affects different people in many different ways. What might be a traumatic event for one individual might not be that intense of an [...]
How Long Does Recovery Take? Your Guide to Understanding the Drug Recovery Timeline
Whether you’ve been sober for one day or one year, it’s a common experience to wonder how long recovery takes, and what recovery timeline [...]