ADHD Tools and Tips: Expert Insights from High Focus Centers PA
Managing ADHD can be a challenging journey, especially with the unique demands and distractions of everyday life. At High Focus Centers, we understand the importance [...]
How Bullying Can Cause Co-Occurring Disorders in Adolescents
The teenage years are some of the most intense developmental years of the brain. This period is when the majority of mental illnesses develop, as [...]
Should I Consider Interventional Psychiatry?
In the fields of clinical mental health and psychology, treatments and techniques are constantly being evaluated and reevaluated for the sake of the patients. When [...]
Does My Teen Have a Mental Health Disorder?
If you’re the parent of a teenager, you’ve probably wondered whether your teen is displaying signs of a mental health disorder or whether the behaviors [...]
Helping Your Teen Overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Mood swings and other symptoms are often dismissed as typical behavior for teenagers, so it’s easy to miss signs of underlying mental health disorders in [...]
Identifying Seasonal Depression in Your Child
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or seasonal depression as it’s most commonly known, doesn’t only affect adults, it can also affect children and teens. As the [...]
Knowing the Obsessive and Compulsive Behaviors Linked to OCD
According to Mayo Clinic, OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) “features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). These [...]
A Quick Reference Guide to the 8 Most Common Mood Disorders
Although everyone’s mood fluctuates from day to day, for some individuals it prevents them from living their everyday lives. This article is a quick reference [...]
What You Need to Know About the Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder
We all have days when life feels like a roller coaster. The highs and lows of ordinary life can feel dramatic at times, but for [...]
What could be triggering my anxiety attacks?
Everyone feels anxious at some point. A little anxiety can even be helpful, like when nervousness about a test spurs you to study. However, not [...]
How Mental Health Challenges Can Affect Eating Disorder Issues
Eating disorders are all too common. In the United States, about nine percent of people will be affected at some point in their lifetime according [...]
How to Stop a Panic Attack
The American Psychological Association conducts a study on stress in the United States every year and focuses on both the emotional and physical symptoms that [...]
The Difference Between Persistent Depressive and Major Depressive Disorders
As with many mental health conditions, we have a general concept of what they entail and what their symptoms most often look like. But, too [...]
How to Help Someone Who Is Suicidal
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in the year 2020, over 14 thousand people died as a result of suicide in the United [...]
How to Identify and Challenge Irrational Thinking
We've all been told by well-meaning loved ones at some point that something we did or said was unreasonable. We often make mistakes, act out [...]
Coping With Depression
We all experiences emotional highs and lows in life. Sometimes we have periods of longer lows or lows that seem more difficult, but if your [...]