Marissa Katrin Maldonado has been working in the field of addiction and behavioral health since 2006. She has been dedicated to helping individuals and families find treatment for addiction, dual diagnosis, mental health, and eating disorder conditions. Marissa received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University and her Masters Degree in Business Administration with a focus in Management at the University of Redlands, School of Business.
Isn’t it interesting how our personal temperaments can be so vastly different among one another? There are the super cautious types, the crazy risk-seeking types and varying degrees of these polar extremes populating the rest of the personality spectrum. Who knows what genetic markers buried deep in our DNA may fuel a particular personality type? […]
Inhalant abuse, or huffing, is the practice of inhaling vapors to experience intoxication. Huffing is one of many types of high-risk recreational highs that teens or young adults may experiment with. One of the chemicals used in huffing is the refrigerant called Freon. Freon, the brand name for fluorinated hydrocarbons, is an odorless gas commonly […]
When most people get a prescription for Xanax (alprazolam) it is because they are typically going through a difficult period emotionally and need some help managing the excessive stress or anxiety. The problem with Xanax is that even taking the drug as prescribed can lead to addiction in short order. Why? Because tolerance to the […]
It may be hard to image that products named “Mr. Happy” or “Scooby Snax” might actually be deadly. But the brightly packaged “potpourri” that is commonly sold in convenience stores across the country, abused by youth seeking a cheap and accessible high, can absolutely be exactly that, deadly. Potpourri drug addiction, also known as Spice […]
Alcohol continues to be the go-to substance that people may misuse when attempting to self-medicate the effects of a mental health disorder. This is absolutely the case when it comes to individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Alcohol can set up an endorphin replacement cycle in the brain of someone who has suffered […]
Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic-depression, is one of the more severe mental health disorders experienced, impacting over 6 million adult Americans, or 2.8% of the U.S. population. Although the disorder is expressed in various degrees and with differing features, bipolar disorder generally involves extreme mood swings that can keep the individual completely off-balance. […]
The victim looks like any other normal woman. She is smart, pretty, and kind. She wears no outward visible signs of her ordeal to the untrained eye. But appearances can be deceiving, as this woman is carrying around so much pain and misery after years of abuse at the hands of a narcissist. But like […]
You realize your alcohol addiction has reached a crescendo and you are now ready to confront the detoxification process head on. Detox and withdrawal from an alcohol addiction is a highly uncomfortable process where the body releases the toxins related to the alcohol that have built up in the body’s tissues. By ridding the body […]
It may have begun as just some weekend fun, but over time that recreational drug use somehow got out of control. Fact is, you didn’t see it coming. But that is how addiction takes hold, in little increments that begin to snowball until, out of nowhere it seems, you end up with a full-fledged problem […]
Forget those old Hollywood depictions of someone being trotted off to the “looney bin” tightly wrapped in a straight jacket and shot up with some heavy sedative to turn them into drooling vegetables within seconds. Come on. In real life—and one never knows when a total mental meltdown could befall any of us so it […]
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