Why Functional Freeze May Be Mistaken for Depression
If you’re feeling numb, detached and burnt out, there are treatments that can help you start feeling like yourself again. However, symptoms that look like depression on the outside may have different causes. Functional freeze is a response to trauma or ongoing stress...
8 Tips for Stay-at-Home Moms Juggling a Busy Household and Depression
Keeping up with cooking, cleaning, feeding, homework, driving to after-school activities and everything else your family needs is challenging on a good day. For busy stay-at-home moms with depression, doing everyday tasks can be miserable, when you’re able to do them...
5 Steps Your Teen Can Take Today to Start Feeling Better About Their Mental and Physical Well-Being
Teenagers have a lot of things that they need to balance. They have to focus on getting good grades while still putting time aside for extracurricular activities. They want to make fun memories with their friends without neglecting family time. They need to think...
7 Psychiatrist-Recommended Interventions for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Struggling with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can feel overwhelming when the seasons change. Lightfully Behavioral Health supports adults across California with personalized, evidence-based care for SAD and other mental health challenges. Click below to learn more about 7 psychiatrist-recommended interventions for SAD and how Lightfully can help you.
Emotional Exhaustion: What Is It and How Can It Be Addressed During Treatment?
Anyone can get emotionally exhausted. Emotional exhaustion is sometimes linked to mental health disorders like anxiety and depression. However, it can also occur as a natural response to prolonged or intense emotional duress. College life is full of responsibilities...
6 Potential Family Triggers & 5 Tips to Navigate Them
Our family of origin shapes important parts of our identity and sense of self. They can get under our skin like no one else because our early interactions with them are what we’re reacting to when we feel triggered. A trigger is any stimulus that causes a strong...
5 Tips to Help You Find Peace During the Hustle and Bustle of Your First Month of College
Starting college is one of the biggest life milestones for many people. However, the excitement is often overshadowed by all the new changes, challenges and opportunities. From a laundry list of clubs that you can join to quickly filled calendars, it’s not always easy...
Intensive Outpatient Program Treatment in Los Angeles, CA
When you’re struggling with a mental health condition, your symptoms go with you everywhere. Everyday tasks like getting yourself ready in the morning can be more challenging. Managing your symptoms at work can be especially difficult. When your symptoms are...
4 Ways You Can Build Meaningful Friendships Without Your Social Anxiety Getting in the Way
Anxiety can take many forms. In general, anxiety is associated with symptoms like fear, panic and stress. In some cases, it involves fears and worries about specific parts of life. Social anxiety is one example of this. Social anxiety disorder is a mental health...