COVID-19 attacks everyone but it hits those with compromised immune systems and the elderly the hardest. When it comes to addiction and your physical health, you can be classified as a high-risk individual. What exactly does it mean to be a high-risk individual? It means someone is more likely to catch the virus than someone…
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Eating disorders are serious health conditions that require professional medical and psychological care in order to recover from successfully. Individuals with disrupted eating habits often suffer physically, mentally, emotionally, and even socially. Often, this inhibits that person’s ability to concentrate and enjoy many aspects of his or her life. So to overcome the suffering and…
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Nearly one-third of individuals with mental illnesses and almost one-half of those with severe mental illnesses also suffer from co-existing problems with addiction or substance abuse. Likewise, more than one-third of all alcohol abusers and over half of all drug abusers suffer from some form of mental illnesses. When individuals struggle with both, professionals call…
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COVID-19 has the world turned inside out. People are facing a loss of income from jobs that have to be closed and medical bills that they don’t know if they can pay. Worry about paying for necessities such as rent, food, and childcare has increased as many people have at least temporarily lost their jobs…
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Greetings from all of us here at ILC to all of our friends and colleagues. There is a great cloud over our collective humanity right now. Thus, this is a time to take great care and be humbled in the deepest sense of the Heart and Spirit. Life is calling out to us to pay…
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Eating disorders like all mental and physical illnesses can affect anyone at any time. Anorexia especially, is a dangerous condition. When a person is anorexic, they deny their body the nutrients it needs to function properly. Due to the lack of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein, organs shut down, and the body as a whole…
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This is a step-by-step guide to help therapists take their counseling sessions online. Intended Outcome of this Guide Mental health professionals will be able to send an online appointment booking link where clients can book a virtual appointment AND pay for it online. Once clients book an appointment, a meeting block will be posted to…
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There are many different kinds of eating disorders. One of the most common is bulimia. Individuals suffering from this condition may express genuine joy in eating or appear to eat in a normal manner. However, in private, they will purge the food they’ve eaten by forcing themselves to vomit, take laxatives or diuretics, or use…
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Every human being is home both internally and externally to trillions of microbes. These microscopic creatures make up an individual’s microbiome and live in a mutually beneficial balance with us—this symbiosis, when in balance, is helpful keeping our body healthy. However, when the relationship is thrown out of balance, the body becomes more susceptible to…
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While many realize healthy eating can improve physical health, many fail to understand just how important nutrition affects mental health. Recently, researchers and scientists have discovered numerous benefits in managing one’s microbiome. Not only do the trillions of beneficial microorganisms living on our skin and in our body (specifically, our gut) affect our physical wellbeing,…
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