Mental Health Center

If a friend or a family member must be treated in a psychiatric facility, we try to find the best way for them. Ultimately, the goal for them to become healthy, and we believe our choice of hospital critical for the recovery of the person. In Illinois, when we speak of psychiatric facilities, a hospital immediately comes to mind. This is Elgin Mental Health Center or EMHC.

As the second oldest hospital, Illinois, this facility in 1872 under its former name, the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane opened. The first ever physiological measures of mental patients were collected from documents of Elgin back in the 1890s. In the year 1997, gave the Joint Commission on Accreditation of health institutions EMHC its price for two consecutive years. (more…)

Coping with stress: Stress is not a mental disorder

Ask ten people at random when the stress is a mental disorder, and you’ll probably ten positive responses.

Perform the same experiment with a dozen psychiatrists, psychologists and ten ten experts stress management, and you’ll probably have more than 30 “yes”. But what if all 40 of these responses were actually wrong? Would you like the surprise? Would it shock you? Stress is a mental disorder (more…)