Once the honeymoon is over, couples resign themselves to the fact that love and affection alone will not solve the demands a dysfunctional family system brings to the partnership.  Aaron Beck, M.D. in his book, …

When both partners are working on recovery; either addicts attending 12-step groups or couples attending couples therapy, there is a much better chance that trust can be re-established within …

Sometimes there are hard choice to be made like changing jobs, cities, neighborhoods and friends. Those that do repair their relationships develop a new sense of life-style balance and spirituality.

To rebuild trust we must become trustworthy people. Honesty is the bedrock of rebuilding trust. People who embrace honesty as a way of life are able to express both positive and negative feelings without shame.

While breaking trust may involve intimacy and relationship boundary violations, often couples begin repairing without really believing it will help. Many victims feel they will never be able to trust or forgive their partners.

A brain scan study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people’s risk of depression, addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as …

People with post-traumatic stress disorder, constantly relive terrible experiences. In the last few years, there has been a huge body of work on the neural mechanisms of fear memories, writes University of Michigan neuroscientist Stephen …

About 18 U.S. veterans kill themselves each day. Why? Clearly the trauma of warfare and PTSD plays a significant role. But why are these suicide rates higher now than in the past?
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While the name implies a harmless little luxury, bath salts are being used for something completely different than soaking a bath.
“Bath salts” have become the latest illegal drug to capture the nation’s attention after a …