If you or a loved one is in need of care for an addiction or mental health condition, you may consider treatment from a rehab facility. With a busy life and schedule, the length of inpatient care is important to consider. So how long is rehab going to last? It depends on a number of factors. However, although every ... Read More
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“That’s Insane”: How Our Language Stigmatizes Mental Illness
Updated on January 28, 2023 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
Co-Occurring Disorders with Addiction
Addiction is a devastating disorder that comprehensively changes a person's path in life. Alcohol use disorders and substance abuse disorders can occur on their own. However, it is not uncommon for individuals to develop co-occurring disorders with addiction. Dual diagnosis, as it is often called, occurs when an ... Read More
Is Mental Illness Genetic?
While many factors are known to contribute to the cause of mental illness, one of the biggest questions that remain is whether or not mental illness is caused by genetic factors. A mental illness can be defined as any psychiatric disorder that involves a recurring mental pattern which impairs a person’s behavior and ... Read More
What is a Personality Disorder?
The human brain is the only thing that creates and named itself. Isn't that a wild thought? We mention that to show how complex the structure of the brain is and to foreshadow to how many things can go "wrong." People with personality disorders aren't wrong as people - their disorder wasn't a choice. But what is ... Read More
Outpatient Treatment through FHE Health Florida Detox and Wellness Centers
FHE Health offers a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment program. These programs are designed for recovering patients to help them transition smoothly back into their everyday lives, able to face the challenges of a busy, high expectation society. Florida these days, like the rest of the world ... 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 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