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How to Manage Stressful Situations Without Jeopardizing Your Wellbeing
How to Manage Stressful Situations Without Jeopardizing Your Wellbeing 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

Living through stressful situations takes a toll on your mental and physical health. While more limited periods of stress can get you through challenging situations, continuing stress will begin to put you at risk for mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and panic disorder, as well as physical health issues. Being able to manage stress effectively will help limit the more intense symptoms you can experience when you start to feel overwhelmed. Instead, management techniques will keep you in control so that you remain effective while dealing with stress and are able to maintain your mental health in high stakes…

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Mental and Physical Results of Too Little Sleep
Mental and Physical Results of Too Little Sleep 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

The feeling of grogginess after a night where you went to bed late or in which you tossed and turned can make it difficult to get through the next day. But when a sleeping disorder continuously impacts your ability to get enough quality sleep, the results can be more extreme than a few days of discomfort. Lack of sleep, whether it occurs continuously over a period of time or reoccurs from time to time, has a range of mental and physical repercussions. These can have a severe impact on your routine and potentially be dangerous for your health. What to…

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Understanding Schizophrenia: Positive and Negative Symptoms
Understanding Schizophrenia: Positive and Negative Symptoms 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

Schizophrenia is a complex mental health condition. Understanding the experience of someone living with schizophrenia – or identifying the symptoms in yourself or a family member in order to seek treatment – is not always straightforward.  Visual and auditory hallucinations are usually one of the most recognized and apparent symptoms of schizophrenia, but those with the disease can experience a wide range of symptoms. These consist of positive and negative symptoms. Types of Positive and Negative Symptoms  When referring to schizophrenia, positive and negative describe whether behaviors and thoughts are present or not. Positive symptoms are abnormal signs that someone…

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Sadness Vs Depression: Which are You Experiencing and When to Seek Treatment?
Sadness Vs Depression: Which are You Experiencing and When to Seek Treatment? 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

Many different events throughout our lives will make us feel sad. Failing a test at school or a project at work, losing a loved one or something important, stress in your life, traumatic events, and other challenges can all result in feelings of sadness, guilt, despondency, and more negative emotions. Depression also produces many of these same feelings, but it is different in that depression is a mental health condition and in many cases will not go away on its own with time. The similarities between sadness and depression can make it important to know which one you are experiencing…

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Main Types of Mood Disorders
Main Types of Mood Disorders 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

Mood disorders is an umbrella term that encompasses many of the different mental health conditions that impact mood. Generally, the effect on mood is negative, resulting in low mood, irritability, and feelings of hopelessness, but the causes and specific symptoms of a mood disorder can differ greatly depending on the specific type of mood disorder. If you, a family member, or a friend is living with a mood disorder, this can provide insight into what they may be experiencing. Mental Health Conditions that Affect Mood Most mood disorders are a type of depression. For this reason, they will often produce…

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What to Know If You Want to Stop Taking Your Mental Health Medication
What to Know If You Want to Stop Taking Your Mental Health Medication 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

There are many reasons you might want to discontinue mental health medication. You may not like the side effects, the cost of a prescription can be hard to manage, or you may feel like your condition no longer requires a prescription to manage the symptoms. You may also have a personal preference for discontinuing the medication. But most prescription medicine medications should not be stopped without significant consideration. There can be a number of risks to quitting psychiatric medication that you will want to be aware of, and the safest way to manage this process is with the help of…

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How to Improve Your Quality of Sleep and Reduce Daytime Sleepiness
How to Improve Your Quality of Sleep and Reduce Daytime Sleepiness 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

A day of feeling tired after you stayed up too late the night before or engaged in demanding physical work is not usually a serious concern since you can likely catch up on sleep later. But if you are constantly feeling tired for days or weeks in a row, this can be a problem. This can lead to different health problems or create dangerous situations if you fall asleep when you are driving or engaged in other dangerous tasks. There are several different causes for excessive daytime sleepiness ranging from sleep disorders such as narcolepsy to different habits that can…

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Specific vs Complex Phobias: Understanding Your Fears
Specific vs Complex Phobias: Understanding Your Fears 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

When you think of phobias, terms like claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) or arachnophobia (fear of spiders) may first come to mind. These are two very common phobias, along with others like fear of heights, needles, and flying. These are specific phobias, or simple phobias, since they involve a specific subject. The other type of phobias are complex phobias, and include social phobia and agoraphobia. Those who experience one of these phobias can have symptoms of worry, fear, and panic in response to a variety of situations and triggers. A better understanding of the phobia you are experiencing can often…

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Supporting a Teenager Experiencing Gender Dysphoria
Supporting a Teenager Experiencing Gender Dysphoria 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

The teenage years are a challenging time for nearly everyone. For young people who realize during this time that their gender identity – or their psychological perception of their gender – does not match the gender they were assigned when they were born, they may go through the additional struggle of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria occurs when a person of any age feels like their gender is something other than their assigned gender and has a strong desire to be that other gender, and this causes them emotional distress. As transgender and cisgender teens figure out their identity during this…

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Understanding the Differences Between OCD Compulsions and General Fear
Understanding the Differences Between OCD Compulsions and General Fear 150 150 Aware Behavioral Health

It is relatively common to hear OCD used as an adjective, such as when someone puts things in order or feels like they are washing their hands all the time because of the pandemic since one of the more common types of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is the fear of contamination and disease, and the intense anxiety that it brings. But those with OCD know that the reality of acting on a compulsion is far different from the general precautions you may take to avoid dirt, keep from harming others, or double checking to be sure you locked your front…

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