Border Region Behavioral Health Center

07/25/2025

Summer sun, chlorine, and knots from hot Summer play…hair brushing during the Summer months can be a struggle, especially when there are sensory considerations. Here are tips and tricks from an OT for hair brushing. 👇

Also includes list of recommended brushes:
https://www.theottoolbox.com/how-to-support-sensory-issues-with-hair-brushing/

07/25/2025

Now a virtual event—join from anywhere.
Su***de and severe mood disorders impact families in deeply personal ways. On August 14, DBSA invites you to The Tunnel: A Conversation about Su***de and Mood Disorders—a heartfelt, virtual panel featuring caregivers, peer supporters, and author Tripp Friedler, who explores his journey with his son’s bipolar diagnosis in his new memoir.

Let’s break the silence—together.
Reserve your spot: https://secure.everyaction.com/Ovso0qnl90iLJ8mSGxiBeQ2

***dePrevention

07/25/2025

Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) – previously called “sluggish cognitive tempo”— describes a unique cluster of attentional symptoms that, while associated with ADHD, is distinct and separate. Up to 40% of children with ADHD exhibit symptoms of CDS, including excessive daydreaming and s...

07/25/2025

Some of our employees participated in the 988 Rally to help raise community awareness in Laredo, Texas.

You are not alone

Your life matters!!!!

Call 988 if you feel distressed with a mental health challenge as crisis counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

07/25/2025

Migraines and ADHD are comorbid — but few clinicians consider the headache connection when evaluating and treating patients. Studies continue to probe the underlying links between the conditions, but findings show that the impairing symptoms of migraines may aggravate ADHD symptoms and that patient outcomes improve when clinicians avoid compartmentalizing the conditions.
Read more: https://www.additudemag.com/migraines-and-adhd-headaches-symptoms-treatments/

07/25/2025

07/25/2025

Educators, you shape how students show up in the world. Help your students thrive with tools that address trauma, classroom mental health check-ins, and free resources like NAMI Ending the Silence.

Find what you need to build safe, supportive classrooms at nami.org/BackToSchool.

07/25/2025

Is there anyone you know who always seems to attract the same relationship issues with different partners? Or who starts new jobs with great excitement, only to find familiar problems disguised in new situations? Life has a unique way of teaching lessons. When we have something to learn or work on, the same pattern will repeat itself until we either learn the lesson or find a healing approach to deal with it.

Though the tendency is to blame other people, the truth is we take ourselves wherever we go. The “issues” are usually not in the surroundings; they are that we are trying to heal childhood wounds (feelings of not being enough, not being supported, not being seen) through new interactions.

The good news is that life will continue to provide us with opportunities to grow, to heal and to evolve.
When we can observe our emotions (how am I feeling - give it a name - and how can I choose to better respond)
when we honor our intuition (I am feeling __ for a reason - I need to ___)
we develop new ways to recognize patterns and gently move forward.
Awareness is always the first step.

The key is to be alert. When you're willing to recognize a pattern, you can change it by being open to the lesson, supporting yourself, and changing your life in the process.

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.” ~Chuck Palahniuk

Comment a 💚 if you are starting to look at the patterns in your life.

07/25/2025

"We are often conditioned to believe that, if we’re not always giving, always doing, always available, we’re failing our children. The myth of the 'perfect parent' tells us that our own needs are secondary, that love for our children means putting ourselves last – a construct that is especially harming to parents of neurodivergent children. But the truth is, we do our children a disservice when we sacrifice ourselves to this extent. We also risk losing the sense of who we are outside of being caregivers."
- Liz Koch, ADDitude guest blogger, parent, and truth teller

https://additu.de/who

07/25/2025

Strategies for supporting executive functioning skills!

07/25/2025

Drugs and your body have a toxic relationship. They can damage your organs, twist your mental health, and make you feel like a stranger in your own skin. Ditch the drama and learn more about drugs’ toxic behaviors at cdc.gov/FreeMind.

07/25/2025

Even if you still have sadness, lessening it is still improvement! Good job froggy!