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Healthy Relationships in Early Recovery from Alcoholism

Forming healthy relationships in early recovery from alcoholism is tricky. If you go the route of inpatient treatment or via Alcoholics Anonymous, you'll soon learn the phrase people, places, and things. Much of that boils down to avoiding people from your active addiction to help you stay sober. So, how does someone new to recovery approach forming healthy relationships and avoid ones that may lead back to alcoholism and addiction?

It might seem like being transgender and having bipolar disorder are two totally unrelated things, but the reality is they have more in common than you think.

The Life: LGBT

What Do Being Transgender and Having Bipolar Disorder Have in Common?

Do you associate your identity with your job or relationship status? Learn why this is a problem at HealthyPlace.

Mental Health for the Digital Generation

If You Are Not Your Job or Relationship, Who Are You?

I take medication every day for bipolar – does that mean I’m a drug addict? I questioned this when I started meds. Learn about addiction to bipolar medication.

Breaking Bipolar

If You Take Medication Every Day Are You a Drug Addict?

Why is gratitude helpful for mental health recovery? How can you feel grateful when it feels like the world is falling apart? Get answers at HealthyPlace.

Recovering from Mental Illness

Using Gratitude in the Recovery Journey

It's tempting to take on the role of eating disorder savior when someone with ED wants to talk, but that effort is rarely helpful or effective. Learn why at HealthyPlace.

Surviving ED

I Am Not an Eating Disorder Savior

Mental Illness Overview

The History of Mental Illness

Results of recent studies on antidepressant use during pregnancy are a bit confusing, but do show it's important to consider the mental health of the mother.

Mental Illness Overview

Impact of Antidepressants in Pregnancy on Unborn Child

Animal-assisted therapy is beneficial for many types of mental illness and other disorders. Learn about it and who it helps, here at HealthyPlace.

Mental Illness Overview

What is Animal-Assisted Therapy? How Does It Help?

Information on methods to pay for mental health services plus mental health resources for the uninsured.

Mental Illness Overview

How To Pay for Mental Health Services

Mental Illness Overview

Mental Illness Diagnosis Tests

Neuro-linguistic programming is often talked about, but what exactly is it and how is it used in therapy? Find out here at HealthyPlace.

Mental Illness Overview

Neuro-Linguistic Programming: How Is It Used in Therapy?

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Teen Sex

Your Budding Daughter: Some Practical Suggestions for Parents

What? Already? Puberty in Girls, Step By Step

Body Image

Being Overweight Affects Your Sex Drive

Being overweight hampers your sex life Add a bad time in bed to the list of ways

I eat lots of food, drink more than I should and the weight is hurting my sex life. I don't even find myself attractive and I'm afraid to have relationships with women. Time for rehab.

Body Image

Lots of Food. No Sex. Time for Rehab

I'M AN ADDICT.

You can stay centered when external problems rock you to the core. Learn how to be centered when life is at its worst at HealthyPlace.

Mental-Health-Newsletter

How to Stay Centered When Life Feels Out of Control

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Self-advocating for your mental health is an important skill to learn. But sometimes, it can be intimidating to talk to your doctor. Learn to get past it at HealthyPlace.

Mental-Health-Newsletter

Self-Advocate for Your Mental Health: How to Talk to Doctors

Self-Advocate for Your Mental Health: How to Talk to Doctors From the HealthyPlace Mental Hea

What we pay attention to matters. We're hardwired with a negativity bias, but we don't have to stay in negativity. Learn what to pay attention to at HealthyPlace.

Mental-Health-Newsletter

Choosing What We Pay Attention to Affects Our Mental Health

What we pay attention to matters. We're hardwired with a negativity bias, but we don't have to stay in negativity. Learn what to pay attention to at HealthyPlace.

Wondering: Do I have?

Experiencing symptoms of mental illness but are unsure of what they mean? Get trusted information, take a psychological test to help determine possible causes and treatments.

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Wondering: Do I have?

Experiencing symptoms of mental illness but are unsure of what they mean? Get trusted information, take a psychological test to help determine possible causes and treatments.

More conditions >