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Starting the school year with new schedules, classmates, and experiences can cause feelings of excitement for some students, and nervous anticipation for others.
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Starting the school year with new schedules, classmates, and experiences can cause feelings of excitement for some students, and nervous anticipation for others.

A community is a group of people with shared interests or values. It’s a group in which people can receive support, engage socially, foster connection, and live out their values. A community can be a place where people feel they belong, are accepted, and are cared for.

Learn more about trauma and PTSD from our experts, including how a person who is suffering can find the right provider to help.

“Rogers was a last resort before I deferred starting college. I was 17 years young and had never spent that much time away from home before.”

Our brains like to trick us into believing that by ruminating we are “figuring something out” or “accomplishing something,” when it’s actually just taking up our time. Rumination can also present as a verbal compulsion, which is excessive talking or overtalking.

Jaslynn shares her OCD recovery story and how understanding her triggers helped her move forward with life.

We’ve come a long way in how we view and treat people with addiction, also known as substance use disorders. In the past, if someone you loved had an addiction, that person was seen as “less-than” and weak.

After months of treatment elsewhere and no improvements, Hannah was recommended for residential care at Rogers to address her posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The decision would prove crucial to her mental health journey.

Summer is often mistakenly viewed as an inconvenient or unnecessary time for residential mental health treatment. However, the same reasons people may believe this may actually make it ideal.

Fernando says although he’s always had OCD tendencies, it took him years to seek treatment.