Behavioral Health

Anxiety, depression, substance abuse and stress can affect every aspect of your health—mental, physical and emotional. Behavioral Health experts at Spectrum Health provide guidance and leading insights that can help as you work to navigate the path to well-being.

New type of antidepressant shows promise

More study is needed, but the compound may fight the condition in a different way.

Could your ‘holiday blues’ be seasonal affective disorder?

This form of depression runs in families.

Overdose reversal in a nasal spray

Drug marketed as Narcan offers new treatment option for family members or first responders.

Good, and bad, news on prescription painkiller abuse

There is less abuse, but 80 percent of addicts don't seek treatment.

Infected by a good mood?

Happy adolescents appear to help other peers avoid or recover from depression.

Daily smartphone use might offer clues to depression

Small study contends that people who use the devices more often are likelier to have the disorder.

Narcotic painkiller use tied to higher risk for depression

The longer the use, the bigger the risk the user would become depressed, study found.