Coping with Mental Illness

Art therapy is a form of counseling used with people of all ages. In an art therapy session, a patient will use art-making as a way of identifying feelings and expressing the things that are...

When people experience a traumatic event, they may experience memory loss about all or part of the event. That memory loss may last for days, weeks, months or even years. There are several reasons...

Hurricanes, tornados and devastating floods can cause damage to more than just houses and businesses. The emotional trauma that can be experienced during and after a natural disaster can linger...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often thought to be a condition that affects only combat veterans; however, it is a common affliction that can affect anyone who has experienced trauma in...

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is an psychological disease that prompts children in to alternating patterns of impulsive, hyper-active behavior and inactivity. The disease impacts the emotional...

Have you been diagnosed with PTSD? Are some of the symptoms making it hard to lead a normal life? I have PTSD from years of childhood abuse and being raped and almost beaten to death, and I have...

Amnesia is one of the most frightening conditions a child can experience, and is often the result of serious trauma. There are several different ways in which amnesia can manifest, but in most...

People who suffer a severe trauma might wrestle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If a person experiences ongoing and severe trauma, particularly if the trauma began when the person was...

Most people do not understand what Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) really is. The media portray DID (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) as several people sharing a body, but...

PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder, is a psychiatric illness that can result from a traumatic experience. Causes of PTSD range from war to natural disaster to child abuse and sexual assault....

Once called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is an illness where the individual’s reality is so unbearable, that their personality becomes fragmented into...