What is mental health?
Mental health is about how people think, feel, and behave. Mental health care professionals can help people manage conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addiction, and other disorders that affect their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What Causes Sleep Anxiety and How Can You Cope?
Sleep anxiety is when you experience fear or stress about falling asleep. Even the thought of bedtime can lead to feelings of anxiousness. About 40% of people with anxiety also experience insomnia (difficulty falling or staying asleep), and there is a connection between the two.
Alcohol and Depression: Understanding the Connection
There is a strong link between alcohol use and depression, a mental health condition that includes feelings of hopelessness, emptiness, fatigue, loss of interest, and more. But does regular drinking lead to depression, or are people with depression more likely to drink too much alcohol? Both are possibilities.
Depression Facts and Statistics: What You Need to Know
Depression—also called clinical depression or major depressive disorder (MDD)—is a debilitating mental illness that impacts between 200 and 300 million people worldwide, regardless of age.1 Depression can look and feel different for each person, and many people may not even show any outward signs of depression.
Current recommendations address perinatal depression screening, diagnosis, treatment
Current perinatal depression recommendations aim to help with early screening, diagnosis and treatment and to prevent maternal mortality. Perinatal mental health conditions are the leading cause of overall and preventable maternal mortality and include a wide array of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression and substance use disorders
