It is a misconception that depression cannot affect men. Men like to hide their emotion due to social norms. These social norms can be damaging to the mental health of many men. The tough image of men do not cry is something engraved in society. Hence crying or depression is a sign of weakness in modern society. These norms need broken and it needs to be understand all human beings can suffer from depression.
Men also need consoling and support in depression. Please also review our Grief Counseling Training Program
The article, “Depression can affect men, too” by Vince Faust states,
Men with depressive illnesses do not all experience the same symptoms. The severity, frequency and duration of symptoms will vary depending on the individual and his particular illness. There is no single known cause of depression. Depression is caused from a combination of genetic, biochemical, environmental and psychological factors.
It is important to recognize depression in both men and women and help individuals find the help they need Certified Grief Counselors can help identify depression and lead clients to the places they need for help. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Training program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
Managing money, like many things, can become difficult with ADHD. ADHD can create an uncomfortable urge to continue to upgrade or add to something. It can make one unsettled. ADHD can hence become a major issue for adults who try to save money or spend more money.
ADHD can make you everyone at once, including your bank account. Please also review our ADHD Consulting Training program
The article, “Managing finances when you have ADHD” from MONEYSENSE reviews ways to better save money despite the ADHD urges. The article states,
“To break that down, we all have something called executive function: That’s a function of the brain that allows us to review and think about the decisions we are making, and create a strategy for seeing those decisions through. Now, people like me, who have ADHD—we don’t have as much control over that executive function. And what that looks like from the outside is impulsive and erratic behaviour, which can have financial consequences.”
ADHD can cause havoc with impulses and it is no wonder that financial issues can follow adults with ADHD. To read the entire article, please click here
Please also review our ADHD Consulting training program. Qualified professionals will be able to help those with ADHD face everyday decisions. Please review and see if the program meets your academic and professional goals.
A malpractice can be a life altering thing. Some people are forever disabled or lose abilities they once had. Others seek justice for the deceased who died due to malpractice. While medical professionals work hard, mistakes can happen. When true and legitimate mistakes happen, justice is demanded for the patient. It is important to work with the proper malpractice attorney and seek their aide. Legal Nurse Consultants also supply their expertise on a malpractice team and can help push your case.
Please also review our Legal Nurse Consulting Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
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Crisis and tension can cause stress. At the national level when pandemics or crisis strikes, many individuals are forced into solitude and quarantine. This move to save the many however is not always the best for the few. Those who suffer from depression, anxiety or substance abuse can face greater challenges in seclusion.
During crisis, it is important to help others not fall back into bad habits and addiction Crisis Counseling and Substance Abuse Counseling can help others cope.
Addiction has more power over individuals who cannot find their support systems. Without support, many are not strong enough yet to overcome and curb the desires and physical urges to the addiction. This addiction can be anything. It can be a substance, or even a need. Solitude forces one to wrestle with oneself and inner demons. If one adds the external crisis of a pandemic or national crisis to an internal struggle, then many without support relapse into bad habits.
Many need the distraction from the external or social issue and find peace in old unhealthy habits. Without better coping strategies, one can fall victim to these desires and needs. Many of the coping strategies were in the external world and many find a hard time finding alternative coping strategies at home alone.
This is why it is important to find coping strategies at home. Hobbies are a great place for many. Reading, work at home as well, while others look to meditation and prayer, but ultimately, many need that support. Fortunately with social media, it is easier to stay into contact. Zoom meetings, chat rooms, and online support groups are available. Furthermore, many counseling sessions now can be completed over the phone.
These social platforms help those addicted hear the outside world while trapped at home. It is critical to help individuals who face these issues and share the ray of hope they need. Many do not have hobbies, or other ways to distract their minds and social media and telecounseling may be the only way they can find the guidance and support they need.
Crisis itself is stressful enough for many people facing pandemics, but it is even more difficult for those who are already waging a war internally with themselves.
To learn more about Substance Abuse Counseling and Crisis Counseling, qualified professionals can review the programs at AIHCP. The programs are designed for working professionals and are completely online. Qualified professionals can earn a four year certification by completing the required online courses in Crisis Intervention or Substance Abuse Counseling.
In the meantime, helping those who need social support is a key element in the behavioral health sectors. Individuals whether depressed or addicted, need the help to cope and not only defeat the external crisis but also their own inner issues.
Please also review our Crisis Intervention program to help others cope during national crisis.
Crisis Intervention is a key skill set by counselors to help individuals face stress and national and personal emergencies. Crisis counselors help individuals return to a pre-crisis level. Helping individuals find sanity in chaos and able to cope is a key element in crisis. Crisis counselors help not only external issues but also internal crisis and hence crisis counseling is closely related also with substance abuse counseling.
Mastering one’s control of anger is essential and important to becoming a better person. Anger in itself is not evil or bad but is a reaction that is neutral in value of good or bad. It is what we do with it that makes it bad or good. Anger hence can be just or evil in its application to a situation.
Ultimately anger is a reaction to something that is wrong. Frequent use of it over mild things is a sign of an issue though. Our anger should not be quick but should be correlated properly with to each situation and then channeled properly
How well can we control our frustration and anger during crisis is critical to our success in life. Please also review our Anger Management Certification Program
The article, “What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You” reviews the problem between fear and rage and how we can better control our anger in times of uncertainty. Shya Scanlon, the author, states,
“Hidden in the deluge of Covid-19 news stories are other, not unrelated, stories of the dangerous impact isolation, quarantine, and imposed immobility may be having on our mental and physical health, especially for people in already abusive relationships.”
It is important in these times to remain calm and patient with others and not misuse anger. We need to channel frustration and impatience in other ways. To read the entire article, please click here
Anxiety and anger are tied closely together. Anxiety can lead to multiple issues for an individual. Anger is a result of anxiety. Lack of proper coping and allowing anxiety to overtake oneself can put a person into a fight or flight situation where emotions and anger can become unleashed.
Dr Conte looks at how to better control anxiety and anger. Please also review our Anger Management Program and see if it meets your academic needs
Dr Conte discusses the importance of dealing with anxiety and how to better cope with it. Dr Conte in his video, “How to Dealk with Anxiety” takes a closer look into controlling anxiety and anger. He states,
“Anxiety can be crippling; so in this video, I offer some practical ways to deal with it. Obviously there is more to discuss about anxiety than what I cover in this brief video, which is why my plan is to continue to make more videos to help however I can. Sending everyone who watches this much”
To learn more about anxiety and anger management, please review AIHCP’s Anger Management Program. Dr Conte authors the required courses and lends his expertise and skills to the online program.
The emotional Freedom Technique or EFT can play a big role in helping individuals with a variety of mental maladies. From bad habits to trauma, the ability to move negative energy buildup out of the body and replace it with neutral and good energy plays a key role in helping individuals cope and heal. AIHCP also offers a certification in EFT for qualified professionals.
EFT can play a positive role in helping children deal with childhood anxiety. Please also review our EFT Certification program
EFT can play a positive role in one’s life. Qualified professionals can earn an EFT certification and help individuals through the practice of tapping. Please review the program and see if it meets your academic and professional standards.
Due to the pandemic of Covid-19, society for the first time in 100 years has seen the necessity for a self imposed and state quarantine. Noone alive, or at least old enough to recall, remembers the 1918 influenza commonly referred to as the Spanish flu. The Wuhan Virus, Coronavirus, or which ever you prefer to call it has brought present day society to something it has never experienced. This experience will create anxiety and issues for the most healthy, but it can create far worst reactions in those who suffer from mental illness. substance abuse and depression.
Those who need social constructs to help them through daily life have been stripped of important support systems. The depressed, the mentally unstable and the addict need to speak to peer groups or counselors. They need prescriptions and medication to help maintain a normal balance in life. This disruption poses a double threat; not only to the already tragic and scary situation of the deadly virus, but also in the dealing with their own deadly emotional demons.
Isolation and quarantine can affect the most healthy but has a double effect on the depressed and addicted. Please also review our Grief Counseling Program
Those facing issues need to take advantage of modern technology to communicate with others. Various zoom meetings can still be arranged for support groups, as well as counseling appointments, but the isolation and inability to see others in person in times of doubt can play a big role for the depressed or those addicted to substances. It can create a very strong temptation to drink or fall back into a deep depression.
Contact is key but also exercise and optimism. A nice healthy jog or walk, and optimistic reads and programs are essential. Friends need to check on each other, help each other with food, medicine, or a simple call. While the truck load of new issues unloaded on people because of lockdown can cause immense financial and emotional toll, society needs to be alone together to achieve victory over the virus. Together can be achieved through facetime, calls, texts and social media.
Seeing many talk show hosts present from home shows the universal situation we all share as a society. Knowing one is not alone and that deliveries, stimulus checks, and good vibes still exist is critical to mental health. While easier said than done, we must realize this too shall pass. Restaurants, malls, and social gatherings will return. Life will return to normal. The pandemic of 1918 t 1920 infected a third of the population and killed over 50 million. This pandemic has yet to see even see 5 million. This will pass like the last plague passed 100 years ago. Society needs to continue what needs done and remain hopeful and optimistic. It is a time to overcome great hardship and grief and show history that our day also stood up its unique challenges.
In the Lord of the Rings, Frodo asks Gandalf why must he be born in such horrible times, but Gandalf assures Frodo that one cannot choose what time one is born into but instead can only handle how the time is given. We as a society have now our own time and our own struggles and what will define us is how we handle it. Whether depressed, addicted, or merely caught in the situation, we must rise to the occasion, help others and maintain an optimistic attitude as we do what needs to be done.
Please also review our Grief Counseling Program, as well as our Substance Abuse Counseling programs to become trained in helping others face grief and addiction.
The forced confinement due to Coronoavirus is a crisis for many. It locks them away from the necessary physical interaction. For those with mental health and addiction issues, it can also play havoc upon their lives. The quarantine can become a nightmare for many but it can also be an invitation among the chaos to find peace and guidance. It can be if applied become a retreat from the world that can help individuals discover the quiet of God among the materialistic world.
In the quiet we can find God. We can dismiss the distractions. Please also review our Christian Counseling Program
The time for prayer and spirituality can be found in the quiet and isolation for those who seek it. Mystics and saints have reminded humanity throughout the centuries that a turn to God involves quiet. While social prayers and ceremonies are essential to our social nature, we are also individuals and must feed ourselves spiritually through meditation and quiet prayer.
In more normal times, it is healthy to turn to God to prayer daily and if possible once a week in an hour retreat from the world. This retreat allows one to re-access, re-focus, and discover what truly matters in life. That purposeful break or short spiritual quarantine from the world can allow one to hear God. One cannot hear God’s will or God’s demands in the loud of the world. Competing false ideals and distractions emerge. Satan looks to keep one busy as to avoid God and his message.
An hour retreat totally given to God as gift is a time to hear God. St. Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, St Benedict and St. Ignatius all speak of this quiet. The quiet where God is heard through meditation and total giving to God.
In that time, the phone is set away, social media ignored and television turned off. It is a time for God where we separate from the world to hear God’s desires and will. It is a quiet time that heals the soul from the isms of the world and refreshes the spirit to face it.
This time of physical retreat from the virus is a bad thing but it is also a time where we can spiritually retreat and find ourselves again. It is a time where the business of the world can allow one to work on oneself. Spirituality should not be something we neglect in this scary time. We can turn this time of fear into a time to re-access our own spirituality and take the opportunity to re-emerge from the quarantine as better Christians, people and followers of God.
If you would like to learn more about Christian Counseling then please review the program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and leads to a four year certification.
In the meantime, be safe and allow this time of uncertainty to help cultivate better spiritual practices through the time honored instrument of silence. Through silence we can filter out the noise of satan and find God.
People die under healthcare professionals everyday. While this is unfortunate, many deaths are a result of the natural cycle of life. It is only when unneeded death occurs due to medical error that the law enters into the scene. This is where malpractice comes into place.
Medical error can happen. Learn what constitutes meidcal error. Please also visit our Legal Nurse Consulting Certification
The article, “What is medical malpractice?” from Augusta Free Press looks at what malpractice is and the steps needed to be taken. The article states,
“Individuals across the world place their faith in hospitals, doctors, and medical staff. They see health professionals when they are ill and take their children, grandparents, and friends, as well.However, sometimes a single negligent act by the very person in charge of someone’s life can have devastating consequences.”
