Mental healthcare has gotten better in recent decades. However, it still has a long way to go, especially in regards to how minority groups receive treatment. July is Minority Mental health Awareness Month and for good reason. The problems facing racial, cultural, ethnic, and social minorities, when it comes to mental healthcare, are something that […]
Category: Mental Health
Did You Know January Is Mental Wellness Month?
January has been celebrated as Mental Wellness Month for several decades in order to encourage people to focus on mental health and well-being. While this month provides an opportunity to raise mental health awareness, Riverside Recovery of Tampa recognizes the importance of mental wellness every month. For those who struggle with substance use disorders, Riverside […]
Substance Use Continues to Rise During Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19 has created many challenges and conditions that can contribute to addiction. It has caused stress, uncertainty, financial strain, joblessness, isolation, and other conditions that could trigger problematic use of addictive substances. People, especially those who are prone to addiction, may turn to substances as a way to cope with or escape from these current […]
Our Lasting Regrets
Painful memories and feelings of remorse can drag us down. When we start talking about them, they start to lose their power over us and true healing begins. We come to associate our addictions with the many things we regret. These regrets might include the ways in which we’ve hurt the people we care about, […]
Addiction and Negative Body Image
Many of us who suffer from addiction also experience body image issues, often perpetuated by mainstream media. This is a look into the painful causes of body image issues and the importance of embracing radical self-love. As we know, our addictions are often accompanied by mental illnesses, and they are connected and linked to one […]
Growing Up With a Parent or Caregiver Struggling with Addiction
The trauma surrounding living with addiction in the household or within our families can be extensive and profound. Children often blame themselves for the dysfunction in the family unit. They feel responsible for the problematic relationship dynamics. They are filled with so much confusion as to what they might have done wrong to warrant the […]
Emotional Reasons Why We Enable Our Loved Ones’ Addictions
As we’re working to support our loved ones’ recovery, we realize that we have to put a stop to the many ways in which we’ve been enabling them. When we enable our loved ones, very often we aren’t conscious of how and why we’re doing so. It can help us to change our detrimental relationship […]
How Our Loved Ones’ Addictions Affect Our Mental and Emotional Health
Many of us whose loved ones are addicts become so focused on them and their challenges that we often don’t realize our own mental and emotional health are being adversely affected by their addictions. We fail to see all the ways in which we’re being limited, held back, brought down and hurt by our loved […]
The Habits that Form Addictions
We tend to think of our addictions in much the same way we view our mental health issues, as powerful forces beyond our control, as illnesses we were born with or inherited but can’t heal from. We fail to realize that the patterns we develop, the mental and emotional habits we practice and repeat over […]
Finding the Valuable Lessons Within Our Emotions
Many of us living with addiction and mental illness have developed patterns of avoiding, suppressing and resisting our emotions, in particular the ones we find most difficult to handle. When we feel stressed out and overwhelmed, depressed and afraid, confused and ashamed, our instinct is often to shut down and try to stop feeling our […]