With the growing legal support and decriminalization of marijuana in the United States, it would seem there is a consensus that the there are benefits of use and exaggerations of medical concerns. However, there is a looming debate over how cannabis impacts feelings of anxiety and depression, in addition to the ... Read More
Behavioral & Mental Health
Approximately 18.5% of adults in the U.S. have experienced mental illness. These disorders include depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder among others. This learning center explores the reality of mental health and the treatment needed. The stigma surrounding this issue prevents people from reaching out for quality help when a better life is possible. Our mental health licensed professionals treat patients with a variety of conditions and inform our topics found in this section.
Can Cannabis Actually Increase Anxiety and Depression
Taking Care of Your Mental Health in Recovery
If you are in recovery or know someone in recovery, you are likely aware of the proximity of addiction to mental health issues. Addiction, like mental health, has a long history of being stigmatized. Fortunately, the discussion of hidden mental health disorders has been receiving tremendous attention lately. With such ... Read More
5 Tips on Handling Anxiety Without Medication
Are you struggling with a mental illness, but do not want to take medication? Breaking the stigma around mental illness is something that FHE Health wants to accomplish, and as a result, we would love to talk today about anxiety. We have a few tips about how to cope, which is so important in a day and age where mental ... Read More
Poverty, Drugs, Violence, and Depression
Poverty, drugs, and depression are an unholy chorus that often go together. As a gold miner recognizes that quartz hints at a gold deposit, mental health professionals recognize that where there’s one of these four, the others may follow. Contrariwise, the more of these components we recognize and fix, the more we ... Read More
How So Many Women Develop Eating Disorders During College
Our society still forces women into the terrible position of becoming obsessed with their bodies, because to be otherwise is looked at as some kind of personal neglect. As girls grow up and move through school body shaming gets pretty serious. Around middle school, as women move through puberty it becomes brutal, and ... Read More
The Ins and Outs of Modern Gambling
Gambling has its origins in the paleolithic era - it is older than written language and most forms of agriculture. It is not a new problem at all, though in the modern era it takes a variety of forms that can disguise its nature. There are many modern forms of gaming that occupy the hazy gray areas at the edge of ... Read More
Two Ways of Thinking
Think back to a time you said something stupid in the heat of the moment. We’ve all been there, and instantly knew we’d messed up. Why do we do these things? Have you heard the expression that when we’re scared or angry we lose IQ points? It turns out there’s some truth to that. The Lizard Brain Studies ... Read More
The Eating Disorder and Substance Abuse Dual Diagnosis
Eating disorders are a well documented and wide reaching issue among people living in Florida and the throughout the wider United States. Approximately 8 million citizens in the United States suffer from documented cases of some kind of eating disorder and that is only what we know about. Surely thousands of other ... Read More