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Personal Story 03.06.2025

I’m Not Crazy, Just Traumatized

Don’t give up fighting for your mental health when your gut knows something’s not right either with you, or with the diagnosis you’ve been given, fight to live.

Blog post 12.05.2024

What Happens in Vegas in April Will Help The Future of Youth Mental Health: In Conversation with the #ADAA2025 Conference Co-Chairs

ADAA’s 2025 conference in Las Vegas (April 3 – 5) will focus on youth mental health, which is currently a global crisis. Drs. Fitzgerald and Forbes, this year's conference co-chairs, are dedicated to and passionate about youth mental health. Read the blog to learn more about our 2025 conference topic.

Blog post 11.07.2024

10 Strategies to Help Kids Manage Uncomfortable Emotions

In a world that values immediate gratification and ease, it can be challenging to teach kids how to tolerate these feelings without intentional practice.

Personal Story 08.24.2024

Sobriety and Meditation: Finding My Purpose after Drug Abuse

Despite outward success, I had been abusing drugs and alcohol since middle school, a habit I developed to escape emotions I didn’t know how to handle. I knew I had to change or continue suffering indefinitely. Slowly, meditation became a habit, helping me manage my emotions better.

Blog post 04.20.2023

Are the Kids Really Alright? Troubling Headlines, Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health

The headlines and the CDC report are indeed alarming, but they should serve as a wakeup call to all of us. Yes, we should think seriously about why we are seeing a steep decline in the mental health of teenage girls, but we have to come together now as parents, family, friends, educators, clinicians, providers, and as a society to support, enhance and establish more preventive measures for our youth.

Blog post 05.31.2022

Mass shootings leave behind collective despair, anguish and trauma at many societal levels

People who are not directly exposed to a disaster but who are exposed to the news can also experience distress, anxiety or even PTSD. We have seen this in instances such as 9/11.

Personal Story 05.27.2021

Greatest Day of My Life

Early in 2020 I experienced my first panic attack at the age of 34. I had entered into psychotherapy a few months earlier and things seemed to be getting better.

Personal Story 05.21.2015

Resolve and Resilience From Panic

There was a time when basic things—like driving, climbing a flight of stairs, taking a shower, or going through the checkout line at

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I'm grateful for the experience of my panic, because it taught me that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to panic and anxiety.

Page 04.23.2015

Spread the Word

Help us spread the word about the benefits of treatment for anxiety and mood disorders, OCD, and PTSD — for children and teens, women, men, and all those suffering from related illnesses.

Personal Story 03.30.2015

No More Constant Fear

My earliest childhood memories are of constant fear. A skinny kid with crooked teeth, somewhat shy and reserved with social anxiety, I was an easy target for bullies, which made my issues even more difficult to handle. I never spoke to anyone about my feelings because I felt they were my fault.