Are you wondering if you are showing signs of BOTH anxiety and depression? Comorbidity is a term in psychology for when two or multiple mental disorders are present at the same time in a singular individual. Certain disorders like depression and anxiety tend to occur together. The same for ADHD and
Unlike a broken leg, your mental health – or lack thereof – has very complex origins. Schizophrenia, for example, often runs in families and could be mainly genetic. Anxiety disorders can be the result of genetic traits, prenatal stress, childhood trauma, and random events. Become a "Change Maker"
Do you wonder what causes chronic depression? Perhaps, you yourself are diagnosed with clinical depression or you know someone who has depression, but you aren't sure why they suffer from depression? Depression is an extremely complex mental health problem ranging from combination of genetic to envi
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder in which a person has unwanted intrusive and repetitive thoughts that become obsessions. These obsessions cause sufferers to do things to alleviate thoughts, a behavior called compulsion. Since these learned rituals only provide temporary relief, the
Our ability to sense, understand, and control emotions is known as emotional intelligence (EI) and is considered critical to human thriving. For centuries, we thought that emotions and cognition were two separate things. Today we know that the two are constantly interacting. The most relevant model
