Author: DrBev

DrBev is a National Certified Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and a Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist, Seminar - WorkShop Facilitator, Radio Personality, Author and President and Educational Director of DrBev Mental Health Counseling.

Why Are We Drugging Our Children?

Julian Weissglass wrote this interesting article… It is A study published in the June 2006 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry found that the use of anti-psychotic drugs to treat children and adolescents increased by more than five times from 1993 to 2002.  The number of children prescribed antidepressants has increased more than tenfold since…

What? What!!! Why does everything look gray when you feel blue?

Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.  Researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany showed previously that people with depression have difficulty detecting black-and-white contrast differences These…