The holiday season can often be a mix of joy and stress. While we look forward to many traditions, as the pandemic drags on with new variants, we’re forced to find ways to reinvent or possibly postpone family gatherings. Mental health advocate and morning show DJ at 103.7 in Milwaukee, WI, Riggs, hosted a Facebook Live with Rogers Behavioral Health experts Adrianne McCullars, PhD, associate clinical director and psychologist at Rogers’ Tampa clinic, and Sue McKenzie Dicks, vice president, healthy culture, to discuss how we can keep our mental health in check.

For more than a century, Rogers has been fulfilling its not-for-profit mission of changing lives by providing access to our gold standard mental health and addiction care in communities across the U.S.

How we talk to someone who is struggling with mental health can make the difference between someone feeling accepted and understood, or feeling labeled as a disorder first and a human being second.

It’s the time of the year when many of us are rolling up our sleeves and engaging in an annual “spring cleaning.” While this leads to relief for some, the idea of doing so can cause a lot of stress to someone who has hoarding disorder. Below, Sanjaya Saxena, MD, explains what hoarding disorder is and clears up common misconceptions.