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Dark Chocolate Offers a Variety of Potential Benefits

  • Depression, Patients and Families

Many of us regularly enjoy, or even crave, chocolate at times. As you consider your chocolate choices, opting for dark chocolate may be your best bet. Research continues to identify a variety of health and mental health benefits associated with dark chocolate.

Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and the Role of Family & Friends

  • Addiction, Treatment

A conversation with Monica Taylor-Desir, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the board of the APA Foundation, and Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., APA president-elect on what addiction looks like, what treatment looks like, and how family and friends can help a person in recovery.

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Learn about Somatic Symptom Disorder, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options, and answers to your questions.

What are Personality Disorders?

What are personality disorders? A personality disorder is a way of thinking, feeling and behaving that deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time.

The Mental Health Benefits of Simple Acts of Kindness

  • Healthy living for mental well-being, Patients and Families

There are many reasons acts of kindness are good for the giver and the receiver. New research looks at the mental health benefits, finding that performing acts of kindness may help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.(1) “Acts of kindness” refer to benevolent and helpful actions intentionally directed towards another person, motivated by the desire to help another and not to gain reward or to avoid punishment

What Is are Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder in which people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations (obsessions) that make them feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions). The repetitive behaviors, such as hand washing, checking on things or cleaning, can significantly interfere with a person’s daily activities and social interactions.

Los Angeles County Wildfires Update

The catastrophe of the California fires and the impact they have had on our members, their families and their patients is heart wrenching. The wildfires are at the top of our minds here at APA, and our hearts go out to all those impacted.

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