Updated March 16, 2022 The question of how social media use affects health continues to spur research. It's also a source of some controversy. To be sure, social media has positive and negative effects on our behavior, but is social media to blame for a reported rise in mental illness? The Big Picture of Social ... Read More
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Moving on After a Relapse
Relapse is typically a natural component of the journey through sobriety. This means that having a proper relapse prevention plan and corresponding skills for making it through if it happens are necessary to getting back on the right track. Relapse Happens, Don’t Give Up The process of getting sober is a simple one, ... Read More
“That’s Insane”: How Our Language Stigmatizes Mental Illness
Updated on December 9, 2024 Words matter. The language that we use to talk about a particular topic can have a profound effect on how we think about and relate to it. Think for a moment about mental illness. It could be the only disease in which people who have it feel guilty for doing so or, in some cases, are ... Read More
Inhaled Heroin and other Recent Drug Trends
Chasing an ever increasing high, stories of individuals using drugs in new ways (or old ways in some cases) is creating even more devastating consequences. An individual hears about inhaling heroin, for example. She tries it, notices the intense high it creates. Her friends try it, too. Not the normal method, but it ... Read More
Recognizing Addiction in Your Family
Does someone in your family suffer from drug or alcohol addiction? If your family is like many others, you may answer this as no. But, what you may not realize is that addiction can happen to anyone and within any type of family environment. Recognizing addiction in your family is quite difficult to do. But, making the ... Read More
My Spouse Is An Addict: How Can I Help?
If you have a spouse struggling with addiction or living in active addiction, the impact on your own personal life can be equally as difficult as theirs is navigating their own struggle. Ultimately, you are pulled into the whirlwind that is the life of alcoholism or drug addiction because of your spouse’s actions, and ... Read More
Measuring the Severity of an Addiction
Addiction is a disease, and as with many other diseases like diabetes and cancer, the severity of addiction varies widely depending on a number of factors that substance abuse experts can measure using the addiction severity index, or ASI. Just like how some people with diabetes can manage their condition by making ... Read More
FHE Health Supports NAMI Walk
More and more, we're seeing groups make efforts to raise awareness for mental illness. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is an organization doing its part to reduce the stigma of mental illness, and these efforts are never more visible than in their regional events, called NAMI Walks. At FHE Health, we ... Read More
