A lot of folks are really angry about people making posts via social media that encourage reaching out for help, and providing resources such as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Crisis Text Line. While I agree that we need to check in on our loved ones when we think they may be struggling, some ...

Let’s take a  look at how the developing nervous system is affected by childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), and how genetics vs. environmental factors influence a child’s likelihood of exhibiting signs of schizophrenia in adolescence. While there is some research that explores COS, it feels like more could be done to understand the disorder from a research ...

On February 29, 1960, Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas. Parents Mercedes and Julian had seven children, of whom Ricardo, also known as Richard or Ricky, was the youngest. Upon his cousin’s return from the Vietnam War, Richard and his cousin Mike became very close. Mike introduced Richard to Satanism, and ...

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) does not recognize the terms psychopath or sociopath as their own unique disorder within the text of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Instead, the terms psychopathy and sociopathy are grouped together within a cluster B personality disorder called Antisocial Personality Disorder. The key pattern ...

The term ‘exorcism’ comes from the Latin exorcismus, which means a calling up or driving out of evil spirits. An exorcism is defined as a religious or spiritual practice that involves banishing demons or other spiritual entities from a person, place, or thing that is believed to be possessed. Tales of exorcisms date back to ...

“We all want to be, want to be somebody Right now, we’re just looking for the exit.”   Many people experiencing depression, mental illness or suicidal feelings are feeling alone. They feel like an outcast, like they don’t matter, like they are not providing anything positive to society and that the world would be better ...

You can accomplish more than you think you can. Growing up as an anxious child and dealing with anxiety in my teen and young adult years, I never thought I would be a good leader. I was always the quiet one in the background that no one noticed, and many times, that’s how I preferred ...