Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is a serious mental illness that has eluded doctors for decades. For many years, bipolar disorder patients were diagnosed as psychotic or Schitsophrinia. However, about twenty years ago, manic depression became a more common diagnosis. Psychiatric specialists still, however, did not really understand the illness.

Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depressive disorder. It is a mental illness that presents itself as mood swings or mood cycling. Many people do not realize that there are actually two types of bipolar disorder. Bipolar I disorder is typically defined as raging mood cycling with episodes of extreme mania [...]

Natural healing is a type of practice that comes with many questions. Since the program is surmised of so many different alternative forms of medicine, it can be tough to understand natural healing as a whole. In this article, we'll do our best to give you a basic idea to the answers of some of [...]

Did you know that cranberries are excellent in the fight against bladder problems and a variety of urinary tract infections? Urinary tract infections (also sometimes abbreviated to UTIs) are one of the most widespread of all bacterial related infections and next to respiratory infections, they are the number one reason that people visit their doctor's [...]

Dry skin brushing can do for the skin what fasting can do for the internal organs of the body, which is to release toxins in order to encourage improved health. Toxins very commonly build up under the skin and cause skin eruptions, boils, eczema and a host of other skin problems. This can result due [...]

Acupuncture is subject to a lot of scientific research today. It is an ancient Chinese practice that involves inserting needles into acupuncture points. Large governing bodies such as the World Health Organization, American Medical Association and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine have all done research and commented on the efficacy of acupuncture, [...]

Now that you’ve finished your medical degree, it’s time to find a job. In hospitals or medical facilities, nothing can be more difficult and demanding as mental health jobs. That is why we often see a great demand of these jobs when we make job searches in the internet or in advertisements. Also, the increase [...]

If you have a chronic disease like heart attack or diabetes, you will have to live life with it. You will learn to adjust after each attack and would know the signs that there is an acute attack budding. The same is true with recovery from a mental illness. You cannot expect that during treatment, [...]

With the introduction of newer issues and recent needs, the concepts in mental health nursing or psychiatric nursing expanded dramatically. From the need to provide nursing care for mental health patients during the end of the 19th century, nurses are nowadays commissioned to provide psychiatric-mental health services on a variety of settings.

If a friend or someone in the family is to be treated in a mental facility, we try to find the best facility for them. After all, the goal is for them to get well, and we believe that our choice of hospital is vital for the person’s recovery. In Illinois, when we speak of [...]