Category: Behavioral and Mental Health

Most people will experience an existential crisis at one or more points in their lives. When we are young, we struggle to find out who and what we are. Later…

Bipolar disorder is characterized by experiencing mood swings from manic highs to depressive lows. Manic highs involve periods of high-energy, a reduced need for sleep and sometimes losing touch with…

It’s that time of year again where the days are short and darker and the nights are long. Seasonal affective disorder is a form or recurring major depressive disorder that…

I recently came across a disorder that I haven’t heard of before, and I thought I knew them all. It’s called “alexithymia” and people who have it have difficulty identifying…

A controversial and stigmatized psychiatric practice in which volts of electricity are passed through the patient’s brain for a brief amount of time, electroconvulsive therapy has a long and interesting…