Some three percent of adults in the United States have Bipolar Disorder. Maybe one of them is a member of your family? If you’re taking care of a bipolar family member, you know the extreme changes in mood, energy, and activity levels first hand.

Anxiety affects more people than you may imagine. Some seventy percent of adults in the United States alone report feeling stress or anxiety on a daily basis. Most, though, don’t realize how damaging chronic stress can actually be. And many are unsure of what they can do to relieve their anxiety.

The truth is, we all have something.  At least that’s what I tell my patients. Not just because I want to normalize this for them, but because it’s true. Each of us falls somewhere on the spectrum of mental illness. It’s just the degree of dysfunction and impairment that our ‘something” occupies in our lives.