Treating extreme obesity involves gradual medically guided weight loss, medication, and sometimes surgery. Support groups and talking with a mental health professional can help. Extreme obesity, also ...

Mental illness, particularly severe forms, bring with it devastating symptoms. But individuals and their families are also faced with the monstrosity that is the mental health system. No one told my ...

I get heartbreaking messages every week. Parents email me because they desperately want to help their adult child who has a mental illness, but refuses help. A teacher who’s struggling with bipolar ...

I’m a divorced 68-year-old childless cat lady and have been thinking a lot lately about who will look after me when I get older and my health falters. What resources are available to solo seniors like ...