4 Benefits of Group Therapy
Group therapy was utilized hundreds of years ago as a form of spiritual and mental healing by native tribes to counter addiction. Since then, group therapy has been used to help treat diverse issues like grief, trauma, and mental illness. Group therapy is utilized both within residential therapy situations, and afterwards as a way to […]
Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder
How Depression Affects Relationships
Managing Relationships in Early Recovery
Addiction recovery is a journey that tries a person to their very core. It is often the biggest battle that an individual will face in their life. One thing that can complicate this already difficult time is romantic relationships. So much of recovery is dependent on building a firm emotional foundation, and romantic feelings have […]
Self-Doubt and Addiction
Addiction is a behavioral disease that feeds on many negative emotions. However, few things can feed into the mindset that fosters addiction more than self-doubt, especially for recovering addicts. The feelings that you’re not good enough or that you’ve made too many mistakes are what empower a driving need for validation. Allowing that level of […]
Factors That Lead to Depression
Based on information from the World Health Organization, nearly 350 million people around suffer from a form of clinical depression, which makes it the number one cause of disability. In the United States, an estimated 7% of the population suffers from depression.
Recognizing Extreme Emotions of Bipolar Disorder
An increasing number of individuals are being diagnosed with some form of bipolar 1 or 2 disorder, today. For people who deal with bipolar disorder, emotions can be far more intense than they might otherwise be, or else you might even feel a complete lack of emotion, at all, in instances when you would usually […]
How Genetics Factors into Addiction and Mental Illness
At A Mission for Michael, we specialize in helping our patients deal with the ways that addiction and mental illness work off of each other to make a bad situation worse. This type of phenomenon is referred to as dual diagnosis. While every person has a personal story of how a dual diagnosis rose up […]
How Alcohol Antagonizes Bipolar Disorder
There is a prevalent link between substance abuse and mental illness, and it is one that can be started from either end of the spectrum. Sometimes, the risks of developing certain types of mental illnesses can be spurted on through substance abuse, but types of mental disorders can also lead people to engage in substance […]
IMMH Conference
A Mission for Michael is excited to announce that we will be sponsoring the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH) annual conference in the heart of Orange County, California! This conference will be held from September 28th – October 1st. This year they will have more speakers than ever before! As an attendee, you will […]
