Living with ADHD
If you are living with ADHD, you are less likely to read this article. Unless you’re hyper-focused on the subject, you will likely read the headline and skim the rest. Fortunately, we know that this is not the result of a personal failure. It’s how your brain developed and a symptom of living in a society that wasn’t built for you. Hunters in a Farmer’s World Most of us grew up seeing a negative stigma around those with ADHD. Often, they were the ‘disruptive’ kids in class and treated with little patience. However, as with most of what the human brain does, it
Normal Anxiety vs Anxiety Disorder
What are you anxious about? An upcoming exam or interview? A not-so-ideal doctor’s report on your physical health? Due date on a project at work? Or does everything uncertain in life keep you up at night and worry? What exactly is
New Year’s Resolutions for your mental health
New Year’s is a time that holds a lot of emotions that range from excitement for the new beginning to overwhelm with setting and sticking to new goals Setting goals is a great way to focus on self-improvement and create new
Common Holiday Stressors and How to Cope
The holidays are a time of year that is often joyful. However, this season can also bring on stress from the added pressure of the holiday expectations. So, what are the common holiday stressors and how can you cope with
Video Game Addiction
Hobby or addiction? Let us begin by floating back to your first memory of video games. Depending on your age (and your family’s level of technology sophistication) your first memory may be as early as the first Nintendo system. Maybe your
Pets and Mental Health
Why we love our pets Approximately 58% of households in Canada own at least one pet - and the numbers are continuously rising. Research on the benefits of owning a pet have been ongoing for years. These studies show that
What is Misophonia?
Hate Eating Noises? It’s dinner time, and you start getting anxious because your spouse has decided to cook wings. You start wondering, will I be able to handle this? Will I need to excuse myself from the table? Will I give
The Benefits of Group Therapy
The quintessential image: a group of people, sitting in a circle, talking about their problems. We’ve seen group therapy portrayed in movies and TV shows. For some people, it conjures up memories of attending support groups or perhaps a parenting
Understanding Addiction
A relapsing-brain disorder; a moral failure; a personal choice; a lack of willpower; an excess of bile; a response to intergenerational trauma. Addiction has been conceptualized and reconceptualized since the beginning of recorded human history. Loss of control surrounding the consumption
Cyclothymic Disorder
In 1882, a German psychiatrist presented a lecture and paper on cyclothymia: a new theoretical entity that would contribute to the growing ideas in psychiatry and psychology in manic-depressive illnesses. In 1898, another psychiatrist, Hecker, presented a paper that included