REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Management, Care, and Recovery
REM sleep behavior disorder, often called RBD, is a sleep condition in which the normal muscle paralysis of REM sleep breaks down and a...
Relationship Distress with Spouse or Intimate Partner: Couples Therapy, Individual Help, and Recovery
Relationship distress can look different from one couple to another, but it often feels surprisingly similar from the inside: repeated arguments that never get...
Refusal to Maintain Body Weight Therapy, Nutrition, and Recovery Planning
When someone is persistently losing weight, refusing meals, or seeming unable to maintain a safe body weight, the problem is rarely just about food....
Recurrent Brief Depression Therapy and Long-Term Recovery
Recurrent brief depression can be easy to miss because the episodes are short, but that does not make them mild. A person may have...
Reading Disorder Treatment, Therapy, and School Support
Reading difficulties can affect far more than grades. A child, teen, or adult who reads slowly, guesses at words, avoids written work, or feels...
Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment, Support, and Long-Term Recovery
Reactive attachment disorder, or RAD, is a serious condition linked to severe early neglect, repeated caregiver disruption, or the absence of consistent emotional care...
Querulous Paranoia Care, Therapy, and Long-Term Recovery
Querulous paranoia is an older term for a pattern in which a person becomes intensely preoccupied with being wronged, mistreated, cheated, or denied justice...
Pyromania Management, Therapy, and Medication Guide
Pyromania is a rare impulse-control disorder, not a general term for any deliberate fire-setting. The clinical pattern involves repeated fire-setting or attempts to set...
Psychotic Disorders Therapy, Medication, and Recovery Support
Psychotic disorders can disrupt how a person interprets reality, relates to other people, and manages daily life. Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, withdrawal, loss of...
Psychotic Depression Therapy, Medication, and Management
Psychotic depression is a severe form of depression in which a person has the symptoms of a major depressive episode along with psychosis, such...
Psychosomatic Disorders Treatment, Support, and Long-Term Recovery
Psychosomatic disorders sit at the meeting point of mind and body. The symptoms are physical, often frightening, and sometimes disabling, but stress, trauma, mood,...
Psychosis Treatment and Recovery: Medication, Therapy, and Support
Psychosis can be frightening, confusing, and disruptive, but it is treatable. It describes a state in which a person has difficulty telling what is...
Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizures Therapy, Medication, and Support
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, often shortened to PNES, can be frightening, disruptive, and deeply misunderstood. They look like epileptic seizures, but they are not caused...
Pseudobulbar Affect Medication, Therapy, and Recovery
Pseudobulbar affect, often called PBA, is a disorder of emotional expression rather than a mood disorder. A person may suddenly cry, laugh, or have...
Prion Disease Management: Medications, Palliative Care, and Prognosis
Prion disease is a rare, serious brain disorder that usually gets worse quickly once symptoms begin. Families often ask the same difficult questions early...
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Medication, Therapy, Recovery, and Daily Management
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, is not just “bad PMS.” It is a cyclical mood disorder tied to the menstrual cycle that can bring...