Emotional & Mental Health Articles

Addiction to pain pills is a serious problems, which affects people from all walks of life. What starts as treatment for pain can change into an addiction. Learn how to identify signs of pain pill addiction and how it is treated.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder share some common symptoms, and the two may be confused. There are also, however, important differences between the two.

Why do some people develop PTSD after trauma, while others do not? Near-disaster survivor and psychologist Margaret McKinnon worked on a study that made some remarkable new findings.

Personality disorders are quite a common occurrence in our society, and dealing with them is not an easy task.

Helping a loved-one with a mental health problem can be one of life's biggest challenges. How do you avoid making mistakes?

Medicine has not found a cure for a number of weird medical conditions. Fortunately, these freaky disorders are rare. Some may cause a threat to safety and health, so proper knowledge is needed to help the affected individuals.

Bipolar disorder is notoriously difficult to treat, but a new natural therapy holds promise for treating the condition in children.

A few months back, a Neurologist adventured onto published a polemic book, entitled "ADHD does not exist". This has risen several positive reactions, but also negative ones, and has created confusion around this behavioral problem. This is what happened.

Job loss, debt and the repossession of a home are traumatic events. A new British study reveals that the recession correlated with a marked rise in suicide rates to the point that 10,000 additional people took their own lives.

Who is to blame for the Santa Barbara shootings — and what do events like this say about the mental health of society at large?