If you or a loved one have been experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression, it’s important to know that you’re not alone. Both can be uniquely challenging conditions to manage and can start to affect everything from your personal and professional relationships to preventing you from enjoying your passions. Luckily, at TMS of the Lehigh…
When you or a loved one are experiencing symptoms of depression, it can feel like an insurmountable challenge to get back to feeling like yourself again. Many people with depression know about treatments like antidepressants and talk therapy, but the use of TMS therapy is usually not as well known. While there are a wide…
When you or a loved one are experiencing symptoms of clinical depression, it can cause challenges in seemingly every area of life. From low moods and motivation to feelings of irritability and a low drive to focus on goals, depression can feel overwhelming and isolating for many people. Depression can also occur at any age,…
Suicide is one of the worst tragedies an individual can use on themselves and is one of the worst experiences for people who care about them. Suicide remains the leading cause of death among children and adults in the United States, and since hitting a low in 2000, cases have been rising in the U.S. …
In general, light therapy is the use of certain frequencies of bright light exposure to help improve a person’s mood and mood regulation, which can be very helpful for people suffering from depression. For instance, in a light therapy session you may sit near a light therapy box, which is designed to specifically emit bright…
June 27th is PTSD Awareness Day, and in honor of this day it’s a good idea to discuss some of the misconceptions around this disorder. There’s a lot that many people don’t know or understand about what PTSD is and how to treat it. For instance, because it first started to be widely noticed in…
Everyone deals with stress, but not all stress is easy to mitigate or solve. As Stress Awareness month comes to a close, it’s important to take time to reflect on what causes unwanted stress in your own and loved ones’ lives to better understand how to change things for the better. Since April of 1992,…
A recently published UCSF study found evidence that depression experienced early in life may increase the risk of dementia later on. While similar previous research has described how poor cardiovascular health can increase the risk for dementia, this new study suggests that poor mental health may also harm cognition as we age. In the study,…
