An eating disorder can take over your life. Without proper help, anorexia, bulimia, or overeating can stop you from living a healthy life. An untreated eating disorder can cost you your life, so why not try any form of treatment that seems helpful? One girl’s story, and probably many others, includes a rescue dog. Angela…
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Did you watch Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence? No spoiler alert needed, but I ask because Bradley Cooper has become an advocate for mental health treatment after starring in that movie. Bradley’s character, Pat, suffers from bipolar disorder. He spends several years (not fully defined in the film) in a psychiatric…
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Next up in the ring we have suboxone vs. buprenorphine. The two battle it out in the world of addiction treatment with experts varying on which is better for newly-sober clients. Suboxone and buprenorphine both help addicts in early recovery, but what’s the difference? Both help with physical drug cravings, both stop the person from…
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Money can’t buy you love, happiness, or class, but can it buy you health? Money proves to be a real motivator in weight loss. It kind of makes sense, right? When we can’t stick to the routine with the discipline required to do something, like get in better shape, it would help if someone would…
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President Obama salutes the National Association of Broadcasters (the NAB) who announced their mental health campaign. The NAB wants to use their media power to help bring attention to the much-needed help surrounding mental health treatment. Less than half of people with a mental illness have access to and receive appropriate help. This is definitely…
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“I went to a clinic to lose weight and left with the love of my life,” says Chris Glascow. He was in rehab for food addiction when he met Lizzie Elsburg, who was in rehab for anorexia. The couple fell in love while each working to get healthier. What could be better? Last August the…
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Friends, the show about 6 friends trying to survive life and love in Manhattan, never really touched on alcohol or drug abuse. There was “Fun Bobby” and a few other characters that referenced alcoholism and what not, but for better or worse, the Friends audience was not exposed to heavy issues like addiction. For a…
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Sovereign Health’s treatment centers provide blended programs to its patients. Blended programs are designed to tackle the multiple, interactive, issues that patients face making their treatment more individualized and likely to succeed. Like all treatment centers, Sovereign Health are often must explain what makes it different and what makes it stand out from the crowd. …
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This past Monday, June 03, 2013 marked the beginning of the White House’s National Conference on Mental Health. President Obama kicked off the conference by saying that he hoped the event will elevate the national conversation on mental health by “bringing mental illness out of the shadows.” The event, hosted by both the President and…
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New documentary OXYANA won an award at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest. The film highlights the dangers of prescription drug abuse, told through the lens of Oceana, West Virginia where prescription pill addiction has become common, everyday life. Part of the plot reads that Oceana, a once-thriving mining community deteriorated because “Greed that lead to…
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Jasimin Rogg is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist with a M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is the Clinical Director at Sovereign Health California. She offers psychotherapy to recovering addicts and alcoholics with her private practice in Beverly Hills, California. She has been the facilitator of ongoing recovery groups at various chemical dependency treatment centers in Los…
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Remember mood rings? How did the ring know? And how did someone determine what chemistry change (based on your body temperature) and subsequent mood ring color meant which mood? There is an actual explanation for how mood rings work (I Googled it.) When your body feels different emotions, it has physical reactions. For example, when…
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What if you could get a shot, once a month, and never want your drug of choice again? Vivitrol, the latest innovation in fighting opioid addiction, may do just that. Opioids and opiates are the class of drug that heroin, morphine, codeine, and prescription painkillers fall under. OxyContin, Vicodin, and Norco, to name a few,…
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I am reaching a breaking point with my wife. She has been drinking too much and it is really creating problems in our marriage and for our family. I guess she was drinking during the day without me knowing. I was at work, the kids were napping, and she was downing wine. She would pass…
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