A RESPECT Institute -RI- helps participants develop the skills necessary to transform their experiences of mental illness, treatment and recovery into educational and inspirational presentations. The RI helps participants organize, construct and custom…
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Encore: Weeding Out Fact From Fiction: The Effects of Marijuana and Technology on Our Children’s Brain Development
What would you do if the research showed a relationship between eating broccoli and negative changes in your child’s brain development? You wouldn’t feed them broccoli, right! What if the same was true for technology and marijuana use? Please join us f…
Beyond ADHD with Guest Jeff Emmerson
Jeff Emmerson is becoming one of social media’s premier spokespeople for mental health issues. Jeff has written for and been interviewed by some of the world’s top online magazines regarding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -ADHD. He also enjo…
It’s Not Marijuana – It’s Marijuana X
MarijuanaX is a documentary film showing the dramatic difference in the drug marijuana throughout the legalization movement. According to a 2015 study by Pew Research Center, most American adults favor marijuana legalization. Roughly 56 percent think …
Perfectly Hidden Depression
Depression is experienced by many in the United States -approximately 9 percent of the population-, yet there remains a strong stigma against revealing depressive symptoms or being treated for it. This is one of the factors helping to create a phenomen…
Sleep and the Senses
Getting a regular, restful eight hours of sleep each night is really one of the best things you can do for yourself. Still, for many, sleep is elusive. There are few things more irritating than tossing and turning each night, …
How Mental Health is Portrayed on TV
Despite how common mental health disorders are, they remain clouded in stigma and misinformation. There are many reasons for this, and one of them is the way mental health disorders tend to be portrayed in the media. For far too …
A Day Without Pain
Chronic Pain occurs as a complicated web of emotions and physical symptoms. The most common way to treat pain is to use opioid medications, which actually complicate the course of chronic pain and is responsible for countless complications and overdos…
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are two common mental health disorders that are commonly mistaken for one another, their symptoms confused or conflated. In fact, one report says that around 85 percent of those who are diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed …
Embracing Recovery Everyday
Recovery is something to cherish and to celebrate every month, but September is an especially good time to speak up and speak out about freedom in recovery from substance use. That is because the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services …
At WestBridge, we work with adult men and families from around the country and, in some cases, the world. One of the unique features of our model is our virtual Meet & Greet service which allows us to deepen our assessment and begin building trust and engaging participants in the pre-admission process.