Intrusive Thoughts and How to Stop Them
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts, images or urges that are often distressing and hard to control. They can pop into your mind without warning... Read more.
“Will Everyone Know?” Confidentiality and Mental Health Care
Mental health confidentiality means your conversations with a therapist or mental health provider are legally protected and private, except in rare, specific circumstances.... Read more.
Can You Check Yourself into Rehab for a Personality Disorder?
Personality disorders are complex, long-standing patterns of thinking and behavior that can impact your relationships, self-image and daily functioning. Approximately... Read more.
Cyberbullying and the Real Mental Health Risks
Cyberbullying is a form of emotional abuse that takes place online, and it can seriously impact mental health by increasing the risk of anxiety, depression, low... Read more.
“Therapy Didn’t Work”: Options After a Bad Experience
If you’ve had a bad therapy or rehab experience and feel like therapy didn’t work, you’re not alone — and it doesn’t mean help is out of... Read more.
Can You Check Yourself into Rehab for Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that involves episodes of depression and mania or hypomania and affects around 1 in 150 adults . These mood shifts... Read more.
“No Time for Treatment”: Common Barriers to Care
Barriers to mental health treatment are the practical, emotional or systemic challenges that prevent people from getting the care they need, even when they want... Read more.
Can You Check Yourself into Rehab for Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, feels and behaves. It can make everyday functioning difficult, and for some... Read more.
Common Manipulative Tactics
Manipulation tactics are strategies people use to influence or control others through deception, guilt or emotional coercion — often without the other person realizing... Read more.
The “Grey Rock Method” in Abusive Relationships
The gray rock method is a strategy for disengaging emotionally from an abusive or manipulative person by becoming unresponsive, boring and emotionally neutral —... Read more.