Category: Addiction

  • Oscars Incident Prompts #90SecondChallenge for #Hope #StressSkills

    Oscars Incident Prompts #90SecondChallenge for #Hope #StressSkills

    Our First Key to Hope is identifying and managing the stress response. When we don’t proactively manage our stress response, triggers can cause us to react with violence, addiction, self-harm, and more. This was perfectly exemplified on the stage at the Oscars (if you didn’t watch it, check out this article). It was hard to…

  • Texting and Addictions

    http://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd/2010/08/texting-and-adhd-a-major-problem-facing-youth-and-adults/ Posted via email from iFred

  • How Our Brain is Wired for Addiction and Abuse, and Strategies for Defeating

    http://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd/2010/08/our-brain-is-hardwired-for-abuse-extra-challenging-for-those-with-adhd/ Posted via email from iFred

  • Text messaging, addiction, mental illness, or fun? You tell me!

    Check out the new blog entry on psychcentral / let us know what you think! Posted via web from iFred

  • ADHD and Depression

    http://www.russellbarkley.org/adhd-facts.htm#prevalence I found this article to be quite helpful on ADHD (also ADD) and depression. I actually was not diagnosed with ADD until I was in my late 30’s- how this diagnosis was missed I do not fully understand other than we simply just don’t know a lot about the brain. And quite frankly, there…

  • Matt

    Matt

    [box class=”wall-image”][/box] Hi i just heard you talk on WGN and decided to check out your site. I applaud you for putting drug related depression in your depression types! I started using marijuana when i was 13 and immediately (a few days after smoking) noticed a change in mood. I would get irritable easily, be…