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• What’s the Answer to the Shortage of Mental Health Care Providers?

  Date: March 30, 2019

  Author: David Levine

  "The shortage of psychiatrists is an escalating crisis … of more severity than shortages faced in virtually any other specialty."

• What is Self-Help for Mental Health?

  Date: March 28, 2019

  Author: SAMANTHA GLUCK

  Self-help has some key advantages over professional counseling in that it’s inexpensive, convenient, and you can tailor the program to your own schedule. Self-help books, ebooks, articles and Internet sites focusing on mental health can increase your knowledge and understanding of your behaviors and thought processes

• Building Resilience in Children – 20 Practical, Powerful Strategies (Backed by Science)

  Date: March 27, 2019

  Author: Karen Young

  During times of stress or adversity, the body goes through a number of changes designed to make us faster, stronger, more alert, more capable versions of ourselves. Our heart rate increases, blood pressure goes up, and adrenaline and cortisol (the stress hormone) surge through the body. In the short-term, this is brilliant, but the changes were only ever mean to be for the short-term. Here’s what happens …

• How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say

  Date: March 08, 2019

  Author: By Benedict Carey

  Mustering solid evidence, two researchers have denounced the standard psychiatric guidelines for how best to wean patients from depression medications.

• 5 Ways To Regulate Cortisol Levels Naturally & Counteract Toxic Stress

  Date: March 06, 2019

  Author: By Marygrace Taylor

  Cortisol plays a number of roles in the body, and not all of them are bad, including maintaining healthy blood pressure levels, regulating blood sugar, and turning food into energy.