What Does it Mean to Have a Flight of Ideas When You are Bipolar or Schizophrenic?

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When a person starts talking and they sound jittery, anxious, or very excited, it means that they are experiencing a flight of ideas. This is normally a symptom for those with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Anyone experiencing a flight of ideas means that you have a mental illness that needs to be treated to help […]

How Getting Rid of the Likes Feature Can Improve Your Mental Health

Instagram likes used to be considered what makes your Instagram account a success. If not enough people like photos of yourself, it can lower your confidence and self-esteem. Instagram removing their likes feature can make the site be all about sharing your photos without worrying about any criticism.  The Purpose of Instagram Hiding Likes Instagram […]

How Can Dry Drunk Syndrome Affect Recovery?

While the journey to sobriety is a rewarding one, it can also be very complex to get there. One of the obstacles you may experience during recovery is called “dry drunk syndrome” when you still act drunk even though you are sober. It is best that if you develop dry drunk syndrome to continue on […]

How Was a Woman’s Bladder Able to Brew Her Own Alcohol?

There is a condition currently called auto-brewery syndrome when the microbes in the gastrointestinal tract convert carbs to alcohol without having a drop of the drink. Recently, after a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, she was testing positive for alcohol which prevented her from getting the surgery even though she does not […]

The Pink Cloud Phase of Recovery

Pink cloud syndrome is the stage during early recovery where you feel confident and excited about your recovery. The problem with the pink cloud phase is that it does not last forever. It is important to learn how to pick yourself through your recovery once this stage is over. The Symptoms of Pink Cloud Phase […]

How to Talk to Your Doctor About Chronic Pain to Avoid Developing Opioid Addiction

Chronic pain, a pain that lasts three months or longer, can be hard to accept or understand that their ailment has no cure or clear treatment. Opioids are not the answer to your chronic pain in that if you take too much, you can stop breathing as well as develop a tolerance to them. It […]

Former Editor of Details Magazine Tells His Story of Recovering from Vicodin Addiction

Dan Peres, former editor-in-chief of Details Magazine, battled Vicodin addiction for over a decade. He believes if you saw him, you would never suspect his addiction. Dan Peres decided to break the stigma of his addiction through his memoir to let readers know that even a high-profile man can still experience struggles behind closed doors. […]

Did Edgar Allan Poe Have Suicidal Thoughts? 

Poet Edgar Allan Poe’s death has been a mystery for over 170 years with theories from rabies to suicide. He received no autopsy and there are no surviving medical records of his. Researchers from Lancaster University now have the technology to see based on Poe’s language if he had suicidal thoughts which can help us […]

How Hospitals are Treating Pain with Fewer Opioids

Today, opioids are being prescribed for all different types of pain. You may be coming into the hospital for an injury and walk out with a prescription that leads to opioid addiction or eventual overdose. The Huffington Post talks about how hospitals are trying harder to prescribe fewer opioids to avoid addiction affecting the lives […]