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While technology has given therapists a whole new way to explore exposure therapy with patients with PTSD and anxiety disorders, other mental health issues haven’t gotten quite the same boost.…
While technology has given therapists a whole new way to explore exposure therapy with patients with PTSD and anxiety disorders, other mental health issues haven’t gotten quite the same boost.…
Mental health often gets a bad reputation from the media. When I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I had no idea how misrepresented and misunderstood the condition really was. The symptoms…
Brain training games may be of questionable benefit in many cases, but the science is clearer for people with schizophrenia. Certain cognitive impairments that can be particularly troublesome respond well…
Setting aside the issue of whether brain training games are effective at improving your cognition or intelligence (a questionable assertion, at best), there is at least one good reason to…
Image credit: Matthew Wiebe With a new depression or anxiety awareness campaign cropping up on a near-daily basis, it’s tempting to believe that we’re all well and truly aware. So…
We talk a lot about the stigma of mental illness these days, and not just here–not a day goes by without some new effort to raise awareness of depression or…
In 2014, a CDC survey found that about 17 percent of Americans smoke tobacco. For people with schizophrenia, that number is much higher – at least 60 percent according…
Schizophrenia has long been considered a mystery by much of the mental health community – a complex psychiatric disorder that is caused by biological processes we don’t yet understand. That…