Mental Health Basics

Setting goals for yourself is important in helping to create positive emotions. Doing this will also help you build mastery, as you feel a sense of accomplishment for reaching the goal you've been working toward. You'll feel some kind of positive... Full Answer

According to Dr. Redford B. Williams, Jr., M.D., "There may be an evolutionary advantage to having a pretty robust sympathetic nervous system activation that doesn't get turned off so fast by the parasympathetic, if all you've got to do is survive long... Full Answer

Mental health problems, also called mental disorders or mental illness, are very common in the United States. In any year, roughly one in four adults will have a mental disorder severe enough to seek treatment. That works out to nearly 58 million people.... Full Answer

Mental illness is a disease of the mind that impacts the psychological status, thereby rendering emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention.  Full Answer

A veteran’s reintegration into civilian society can be a slow process. It typically begins with getting reacquainted with loved ones, close friends, and family members. Alone time is important, too, for your veteran has returned from a stressful... Full Answer

When you return home from military service, it takes time to feel comfortable with your family again. It’s not unusual to feel disconnected at first, and not want to talk about your experiences in combat. You may be concerned that what you have to... Full Answer

Being connected to a partner, family, friends, or a support group has been shown to improve mood and the ability to cope with adversity. A strong social network can even strengthen the immune system.  Most people who are able to cope with health... Full Answer

The symptoms of psychosis in veterans and the general population include:         Hallucinations: Hearing voices, seeing or feeling things that are not thereDelusions: Unshakable belief in things that cannot... Full Answer

Psychosis in veterans and the general population is a mental illness characterized by the inability to tell between what is real and what isn’t. It is, literally, losing touch with reality. Psychoses often involve hallucinations  and delusions... Full Answer

"To say that people have a moral sense,” James Q. Wilson wrote in The Moral Sense, "is not the same thing as saying that they are innately good. A moral sense must compete with other senses that are natural to humans -- the desire to survive,... Full Answer