Holiday
Breathing Through the Holidays
By Brenda Marshall, EdD, APN, ANEF, FAANP Holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times, depending on each person’s individual experience.
By Brenda Marshall, EdD, APN, ANEF, FAANP Holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times, depending on each person’s individual experience.
By Laurel Hallock-Koppelman, DNP, FNP-C, APRN International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31. Founded in 2001, this day acts as a time to reflect without
By Kathleen T. McCoy, DNSc, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP May is a wonderful month, filled with the newness of spring! Yet during springtime and throughout
By Tearsanee Carlisle Davis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP “Stressed” — over the past two years, this is the response I have received from patients, friends,
By April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN February 21-28 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. This week is intended to educate the public
By Irene W. Bean, DNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANP July is Minority Mental Health Awareness month and, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed
Stigmas surrounding mental illness often prevent young adults from seeing a nurse practitioner or other health care provider about their condition, and sadly, there is an average 10-year gap between the onset of symptoms and treatment.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this year, it is more critical than ever to pay attention to your mental wellbeing. After more than a year of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects on mental health have been staggering.
This week is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week. This national awareness week was first started in 2010 by scientists at the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) to counteract mistruths that teens learn about drugs and alcohol from the internet, social media, movies and other teens.
Sometimes the terms “mental health” and “mental illness” are used interchangeably, but poor mental health and mental illness are not the same thing. If you are interested in learning more about mental illness and mental health, reach out to your NP.