Mental Health Blog

If you’re like any of the numerous individuals out there struggling with an addiction to food, you’re probably already well aware of the difficulty one can encounter when it comes to finding help for food addiction in South Florida.  With…

Codependency is defined as an unhealthy love and a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways.  These behaviors negatively impact one’s relationship or quality of life and often involve placing a lower priority on your own needs…

Developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy used to treat those struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD). There are a number of dialectical behavior therapy…

A continuous disturbance of personality function in a person by depth and variability of moods is borderline personality disorder (BPD).  The co-existence of extreme, abnormal moods have been evident in writing from authors such as Homer, dating back as far…

Used to describe the co-morbid (pertaining to a disease or other pathological process that occurs simultaneously with another) condition of a person suffering from both a mental illness and a substance abuse problem is known as dual diagnosis.  In cases…