• Common Stigmas in Mental Health and How to Increase Awareness

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    “Food is thy medicine,” said Hippocrates, the ancient physician universally referred to as the father of medicine. If this statement was true thousands of [...]

  • Anxiety Disorder in Veterans

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    A 2013 study found that approximately 12 percent of veterans are diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, which is 4-to-6 times higher than the general population. [...]

  • Xylazine: What It is and How It Affects Humans

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    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

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    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

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    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 [...]

  • The Main Differences Between Panic Disorder vs Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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    Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time, and there’s nothing abnormal about feeling anxious. In most instances, anxiety is simply a normal human reaction [...]

  • ASAM Levels of Care for Pyramid Healthcare – Maryland: Q&A With Dominic Barone, VP of Operations

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    1. What ASAM levels of care are offered at our Maryland Facilities? Harford – 3.7WM, 3.7, 3.5 (Male and Female) Charlotte Hall –  3.7WM, [...]

  • Understanding Anxiety Disorders: The Top 5 Different Types of Anxiety

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    Stressful situations are inevitable in this lifetime. We all encounter them, and usually far more than just once or twice — and we all [...]