Boot-camp-style programs offer structure and activities that can help some teens, but lasting benefit requires licensed therapy, family involvement, safety oversight, and a solid aftercare plan.
A concise, updated guide to how modern anti-anxiety medications are used, including main drug classes, which disorders they treat, safety considerations, and why combining meds with psychotherapy often gives the best results.
Elevated cholesterol has become more common due to diet, inactivity, stress, age, and genetics. Lifestyle changes are the foundation of prevention, but clinicians often add medications - most commonly statins - when overall cardiovascular risk remains high. Understand drug types, interactions, and how to work with your clinician.
Memory loss ranges from normal forgetfulness to amnesia caused by injury, disease, or reversible medical problems. Evaluation includes history, cognitive screening (MMSE or MoCA), imaging, and targeted tests. Treatment addresses reversible causes, symptom management, and lifestyle measures to support brain health.
Professional NLP societies set training and ethical standards, provide certifications, and help reduce harm - but NLP's empirical support remains debated. Learn what to look for when choosing training or a practitioner.
Night sweats - drenching sweating during sleep - can result from benign factors like a warm room or spicy meals, but they can also signal menopause, infections, sleep apnea, endocrine problems, or medications. See a clinician for persistent, severe, or accompanied symptoms.
A modern overview of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): its core ideas, common uses in coaching and communication, and why it remains controversial in mainstream psychology.
Bipolar disorder causes repeated mood episodes - mania or hypomania on the high side and depression on the low side - that affect energy, sleep, thinking and behavior. It commonly begins in late adolescence or early adulthood and is treatable with medication and therapy.
Educational psychology studies how people learn in educational settings. Modern practice blends cognitive and learning science with neuroscience, technology, and inclusive, evidence-based interventions to support diverse learners.
Waking up drenched can come from anxiety, menopause, medications, infections, or sleep apnea. Learn how to tell the difference, when to see a clinician, and practical steps to reduce night sweats.
A concise, updated overview of schizophrenia: its history, symptoms, modern classification, likely causes, and current treatment approaches emphasizing medication plus psychosocial rehabilitation.
Anxiety counseling helps people identify triggers, learn coping skills, and recover functioning. Modern care combines evidence-based therapy, medication when needed, telehealth access, and long-term support for trauma survivors.
A personal development seminar helps you see how habits and beliefs across home, work, and relationships connect. Through coaching, peer practice, and practical tools - offered in in-person, online, or hybrid formats - you build transferable skills like confidence and leadership that improve multiple areas of life.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a persistent pattern of angry or defiant behavior beginning in early childhood. Evidence-based care emphasizes parent training, CBT, and family supports rather than routine medication.
Recovery from addiction is often nonlinear and challenging because of withdrawal, cravings, and co-occurring mental health issues. Combining medication, behavioral therapies, peer support, and harm reduction improves outcomes.
Adolescence brings major change and risk for mood disorders and self-harm. Recognize common risk factors and warning signs, ask directly when worried, remove means of harm, and connect teens with school or medical support. In the U.S., call or text 988 for 24/7 crisis help.
Medication can be essential for some mental-health conditions, but many people benefit from non-drug strategies. Use shared decision-making, combine therapy and lifestyle changes when possible, and review medication regularly.
Night sweats with anxiety are common and treatable. Learn causes, practical self-care, when to see a clinician, and evidence-based treatment options.
Stress triggers immediate biological changes - adrenaline and cortisol - that help in the short term but, if chronic, lead to wear on the body (allostatic load). Different organs break down depending on individual vulnerabilities. Daily habits, mindfulness, therapy, and workplace supports can reduce harm.
Alcohol use disorder is treatable with a combination of medications, behavioral therapies, medical detox when needed, and peer support. Treatment should be tailored to severity, health status, and personal goals.
Evidence-based psychotherapy is the primary treatment for borderline personality disorder. Medication and hospitalization can help with specific symptoms or crises, while peer support and family education reinforce skills and safety.
Dementia is a group of progressive brain disorders - Alzheimer's is the most common - that impair memory, thinking and daily function. There's no general cure, but current medicines, lifestyle changes and new targeted therapies can slow decline or ease symptoms. Early diagnosis, risk reduction and caregiver support are central.
Anxiety management today combines medication, evidence-based therapies (like CBT), relaxation practices, and dietary support. Tailored, supervised combinations of these approaches help most people reduce symptoms and improve functioning.