Results for Diseases & Disorders

A SMART Recovery meeting offers people who want to stop doing something – but find themselves still doing it – an opportunity to meet together with others with similar challenges. The free meeting is chaired by a volunteer trained as either a host or as a facilitator
A facilitator has completed a 30-hour training. A host has completed a self-paced, online training that takes 4-6 hours.
I am trained as a host, not as a facilitator. At the facilitated SMART Recovery meetings…

Are your worries normal or something more? WebMD's slideshow covers the symptoms and types of anxiety disorders, as well as the causes and successful treatments that allow you to thrive once again.

One of the best things you can do to avoid getting a sexually transmitted disease is to become informed. Learn more about STDs from the experts at WebMD.

The number of children with disabilities is on the rise, largely due to growth in incidence of mental and developmental disorders, researchers say.

Mood Disorder NOS is a general term for any mood disorder that isn’t included under its own term in the DSM-IV.

An interactive online tool helping individuals, family members, and treatment providers to explore opioid use disorder treatment options to begin recovery.

In a snapshot, the sometimes-confused conditions of Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder can look similar. But it’s really the movie of the symptom presentation over time that can help make the diagnosis distinct.

NIH releases summary of research on early childhood risk and protective factors
March 09, 2016
An online guide about interventions in early childhood that can help prevent drug use and other unhealthy behaviors was launched today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The guide offers research-based principles that affect a child’s self-control and overall mental health, starting…

Sometimes called the winter blues, seasonal affective disorder starts in colder months and eases in spring. Learn the signs of SAD and ways to get help.

It’s a common misconception that ADHD is only a childhood condition and does not affect individuals after adolescence.

If your mood is darkening with the skies, this is what you need to know.

If you had to imagine your mental illness or disorder as a house, what would it look like? Federico Babina has just released a new project called Archiatric, which depicts 16 different conditions as works of architecture in various states of repair.

It can be difficult to verbalize what it's like to experience mental illness, so photographer Katie Crawford decided to show people instead of tell them....

We need a ‘Girls’ approach to discussing mental health in pop culture

Starting a New Year often creates unnecessary pressure. Learn how to set realistic goals for yourself in eating disorder recovery.

Such diseases include Sjögren’s syndrome, psoriasis and systemic lupus erythematous.

Myths about auditory processing disorder persist, despite advances in APD research. Here are five common misconceptions and the truth about each.

Unintentional Drowning: Get the Facts
How big is the problem
From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day.1 An additional 332 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.2
About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger.1 For every child who dies from…