How many of us think we are balanced people – that all of the aspects of our lives are in perfect harmony with each other – that we have...

“There’s a pill for that” should be our national motto. Because in most cases, there is. Sometimes several pills actually. But what...

The word “relapse” in both Mental Health (MH) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) most simply means that symptoms have returned. In other...

How many times have I heard the phrase “highly functioning”? Like highly functioning alcoholic, highly functioning personality disorder...

In the mind there exists a prison. We’re trapped inside a vehicle that the ego drives. In this vehicle—fear is in the driver’s seat, ego...

The bedrock of our psyche is normally a solid rock, deeply rooted beneath the complex layers of our brain and personality. But what...

Victor Frankl is quoted as saying that “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” This can certainly be said...

Alcohol doesn’t taste good at the start. It’s horrible fermented stuff that burns. I mean, it is a disinfectant and a poison that kills...

When we were young children with developing brains, we viewed the world through only our eyes and assumed that others saw the same. This...

I can take a pill for an erection and get sympathy for my condition. But if I take a pill that balances the chemicals in my brain, I’m...

So it happens again. You’re in the middle of a document, email, video game, or otherwise important function and your computer crashes. ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Yeah, this argument has been around for quite a while. So in our context, what comes first:...

“I used to get angry and get drunk. Now I just get angry.” I first heard this phrase about a year ago from one of my group members. I...

Labels are both helpful and harmful. While labels help to define things, they also overly generalize and categorize people. They become...

You read the title. It’s probably why you clicked on it to see how far down the rabbit hole I’ll go on this. Most of what I say is...