Mental Wellness Article Listings

Read the Columbine Killer's Mother's Story : She Didn't Know Her Own Son, Do You?
17March

Read the Columbine Killer's Mother's Story :...

Early on in her memoir, “A Mother’s Reckoning,” Sue Klebold recalls the most fateful day of her life, revealing, in some of the details, what seems to be a striking attunement to her 17-year-old son, Dylan. When he left...

Why Do We Treat Mental Health Differently Than Physical Health?
16March

Why Do We Treat Mental Health Differently Than Physical...

It's Not Always Easy To See When Someone Is Suffering. It’s easy to see when someone is physically sick. Take a look at someone who is in the late stages of cancer and you can for sure tell something bad is going on. Even with...

Identifying an Unlikely Contributor to Mental Health Disorders
22February

Identifying an Unlikely Contributor to Mental Health...

“A British male teenager tried to commit suicide after he failed to take the perfect selfie. Danny Bowman became so obsessed with capturing the perfect shot that he spent 10 hours a day taking up to 200 selfies. The 19-year-old...

The Surprising Results of a 75-Year-Long Study on Mental Health: Family Matters
22February

The Surprising Results of a 75-Year-Long Study on Mental...

75 Years is a long time. A good amount of people don’t even live that long. A recent study that started in the 1930s identified those factors that contribute to men's happiness has been published - and the results are surprising to...

College Students and Mental Health: The Growing Cry for Help
22February

College Students and Mental Health: The Growing Cry for Help

The stress of college and adulthood can be a lot to handle. It’s an incredibly nerve-wracking day when we send our children to college. It’s their first big step into adulthood and creating a path for themselves. Sometimes,...

We'd All Be Better Off In A World That Treated Mental Health Like We Do Physical Health
22February

We'd All Be Better Off In A World That Treated...

Addressing The Real Problems People Face If, as the mental health parity law requires, we're bound by law to treat mental diseases with the same focus and interest as physical diseases, then why don’t we look at them in the same...

Book Review: Holistic Solutions for Anxiety and Depression in Therapy by Peter Bongiorno
22February

Book Review: Holistic Solutions for Anxiety and...

Original book review first appeared on Psych Central February 17th, 2016 by Megan Riddle Dr. Peter Bongiorno graduated from Bastyr University, the leading accredited university for science-based natural medicine. He completed five years...

Adopted Teens and Suicide: Is There a Greater Threat?
22February

Adopted Teens and Suicide: Is There a Greater Threat?

It has been an ongoing discussion for decades that adopted adolescents are more likely to become troubled teens prone to depression. It has been assumed – and tested – that the suicide risks for adopted teens are far higher...

Keeping Teens Safe: The Statistics on Young People and Guns
22February

Keeping Teens Safe: The Statistics on Young People and Guns

Study finds that teens are less likely to carry a firearm in states with tougher gun laws Teenagers are going to be less likely to keep a firearm on them if they live in a state with stronger gun control laws, according to a new study....