
Understanding Self-harm
Self-harm is the deliberate cutting, cigarette burning or other repetitive mutilation of body tissue. Learn more about this coping mechanism.
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What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a recognized and serious psychological condition. The common features of it are: Unstable moods and emotions as well...

What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. While untreated bipolar can derail someone’s life, it doesn’t need to because it can be successfully managed....

What is OCD? Understanding the Doubting Disease
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a treatable psychological disorder that doesn’t need to be debilitating. In fact, many OCD sufferers have very successful careers.

When is Mental Health Illness a Disability?
When you think of a disability what usually comes to mind are physical diseases and injuries or incapacitations. However, increasingly mental illnesses account...