Mental Health
Help Them Help You: Explaining Your Mental Health to Your Family
Your mental health can affect — and be affected by — your loved ones. Here's how to discuss it with them so everyone can heal.
Substance Use and Suicide: Finding Help and Hope
It's not talked about enough: Drugs and alcohol play a major role in suicides. But there are many paths out of despair. A top psychologist shares some important guidance.
What Is a Trigger?
Understand what pushes your buttons in addiction recovery, and you'll learn to save yourself a lot of stress and trouble.
What It Means To Be LGBTQ+ in Recovery
Dignity, safety, confidence: People in the LGBTQ+ community want what everyone needs when it comes to addiction recovery and mental health. Stellar supporters are making sure they get it.
The Power of Creativity on Mental Health — For Veterans and Everyone Else
Art therapy and creative expression are formidable tools for addressing addiction issues and mental health disorders. They're also fun!
Navigating Mental Health Issues in Recovery: Part of Journey
Dealing with co-occurring disorders like depression or PTSD in recovery takes courage. Our message for Mental Health Awareness Month? There's every reason to have hope.
Untroubling the Waters: Anger Management in Recovery
Everyone gets angry sometimes, but if anger is poisoning you, it's hurting your recovery. Here's how to let it out in a healthy way.
Does a ‘High-Functioning’ Person Need Help?
The question is precisely why the term "high functioning" is broadly unhelpful. Plenty of "successful" people struggle with addiction and mental health conditions, and they deserve care.
How To Tackle Stress in Recovery
Ack! Life is stressful, and it feels different in recovery. You know substances only make things worse, so what to do? Some pointers on handling it like a champ.
Bipolar Disorder and Addiction: Recovery Is Possible
Substance use disorders frequently co-occur with this mood disorder, which impacts around 7 million American adults. But have hope: Today, both are more treatable than ever.
What the Fentanyl Crisis Actually Looks Like
The headlines are sensational, but many victims use fentanyl unknowingly and die quietly. Peter Attia hosts a Texas sheriff's deputy on his podcast to learn how we got here and what we can do.
That’s the Power of Love: Connections, Community and Recovery
This time of year, we're thinking about how our deepest connections and strongest relationships help us through recovery.