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Webinar
05.23.2024
Early Detection and Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
This free live webinar aims to provide participants with an overview of early detection and treatment strategies in bipolar disorder. While early detection and finding the right treatment can be difficult, overcoming bipolar disorder is possible. Various resources and recommendations will be discussed for both individuals and their families.
Blog post
05.04.2024
New ADAA Member Books: Spring 2024
Check out our ADAA members' new books that offer help for the public and support for professionals.
Personal Story
04.03.2024
Ode to Bipolar Disorder
Read "Ode to Bipolar Disorder, a poem describing what it's like living with bipolar disorder, written by a member of the ADAA community.
Personal Story
03.13.2024
As an Athlete, I Needed to Win the Mental Health Game
As an athlete struggling with mental health issues, there came a time when I had to step away from the physical game and concentrate on the mental game. It was not an easy decision.
Blog post
02.09.2024
6 Ways to Tackle BFRBs Outside Your Home
Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) can often make us feel like we have no control over our behaviors and that we’re at the mercy of an endless cycle. Here are 6 ways you can set yourself up to combat your BRFB outside of your home.
Blog post
01.04.2024
How to Stop Pulling or Picking
Compulsive hair pulling (trichotillomania) and skin picking (excoriation) are Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders (BFRBs). If you’re one of the 200+ million people who live with a BFRB, then you know how incredibly difficult these habits are to stop.
Personal Story
11.23.2023
The Ebbs and Flows of My Mental Health Disorders
Getting sick was both sudden and gradual. The timeline of my mental health disorder, or rather disorders because I endured several, was so erratic, waxing and waning, often corresponding to a momentous event in my life or the birth of one of my children or the death of a loved one.
Blog post
10.26.2023
Tackling Picking and Pulling from all Angles - the ComB Model for BFRBs
The comprehensive behavioral treatment or the ComB model is a treatment protocol developed by (Mansueto 2019) that tackles the complexity of treating BFRBs. It begins with using a CBT assessment tool, a functional analysis.
Blog post
10.12.2023
Compulsions – They Aren’t Always What They Seem
Whether we hear the term from a client, another provider, or our own classification of someone’s symptoms, “compulsions” tend carry with them some level of assumption – that this might just be OCD.
Video (YouTube or Vimeo)
08.17.2023
Bipolar Disorder Explained
ADAA member and bipolar expert, Dr. Steve Strakowski explains the signs and symptoms as well as treatment options for bipolar disorder.
Blog post
07.19.2023
When Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) Take Over
According to the DSM 5, Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) are classified as obsessive–compulsive related disorders. But the question remains, how do we treat BFRBs?
Support Group
04.12.2023
