Background: Excessive alcohol use accounted for an estimated average of 23,000 deaths and 633,000 years of potential life lost (YPLL) among women and girls in the United States each year during 2001-2005. Binge drinking accounted for more than half of those deaths and YPLL. Binge drinking...
TeenCounseling can be a resource for those struggling ADHD, and it can help parents and their teens find licensed, professional counselors. Here’s what one patient had to say about their experience and the benefits of therapy and how it can influence your child’s behavior: ...
Excessive drinking, whether it is one time or for a prolonged period, can take a severe toll on your physical and mental health. Some of these effects can be minor, but others are serious and even life-threatening. Alcohol abuse is detrimental to your long-term health; there are also shor...
What happens to your body day by day when you stop drinking? Day by day, when you stop drinking, your body goes through various stages of adjustment and recovery: Day 1: you may experience anxiety, irritability, and cravings as your body begins to detoxify from alcohol. ...
Excessive exercise Laxative abuse Fasting Or a combination of behaviors. Individuals with bulimia tend to have a healthy or relatively healthy body weight compared to those with anorexia. Symptoms typically include: Inflamed or sore throat Swollen glands in neck and jaw Eroded tooth enamel and sensiti...
Alcohol addiction is a psychological disease defined as one’s inability to controlalcoholconsumption. This umbrella term illustrates a form of high-risk drinking that typically includesexcessive drinking, an intense alcohol craving, and continued alcohol use despite realizing how it interferes with your...
they show too much. They can be suddenly irritable or explosive. They may express exaggerated feelings of sadness, hopelessness, worry, or fear. Some are caught up in a sense of worthlessness or a feeling of excessive or inappropriate guilt. The key is a sudden change in behavior. If a pe...
Excessive drinking or alcohol use Being easily distracted Being easily irritated or feeling touchy or jumpy There’s a catch-22 with recognizing the symptoms of bipolar, particularly when it comes to mania: Some people with bipolar disorder simply don’t realize what’s going on, often because ...
Previously called alcohol dependence, this aspect of alcohol use disorder refers to a more serious kind of alcohol use disorder and involves excessive or maladaptive use leading to three or more of the following: Tolerance (need for more to achieve the desired effect, or achieving the effect with...
1. Excessive Procrastination We all need moments to disconnect from professional obligations and distract ourselves. However, if most of your time is devoted to distractions, you will feel that you have done nothing. We are not telling you to eliminate all procrastinating activities from your day ...