Mental Health

Mental Illness is More Than Dysfunction

DARWINIAN MEDICINE? – Nov. 14, 2022 - The first name that came to my mind was Sigmund Freud. To me, his most important idea wasn’t the Oedipus complex (which nobody believes in anyway), infant sexuality, or the... Read More...

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The Difference Between Regular Distractions and A.D.H.D.

WALKING AND CHEWING GUM – Nov. 19, 2022 - As with most psychiatric conditions, A.D.H.D. symptoms can range in type and severity. And many of them “are behaviors everyone experiences at some point or another,” s... Read More...

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Antidepressants Don’t Work the Way Many People Think

IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – Nov. 8, 2022 - “I worry that patients who are really struggling, especially now, when rates of depression are higher than ever, are going to hear this and get the idea that these drugs d... Read More...

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Struggling With Depression, Alcoholism & Addiction, Arnold Schwarzenegger Gave Meaning to Strongman’s Life

HE CAME BACK – Nov. 16, 2022 - Eddie Hall is a former strongman, weightlifter, actor, and media personality. Apart from winning the title of World’s strongest man in 2017, Hall has also won several natio... Read More...

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Managing Sobriety and Stress over the Holidays

DON’T GO HOME – Nov. 17, 2022 - The holiday season can exacerbate stress, anxiety, and depression, particularly when returning home. Unfortunately, many of these emotional triggers often cause people t... Read More...

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Handling Eating Challenges During the Holidays

IT’S SO HARD – Nov. 18, 2022 - The goal should not be to plan or control every aspect of the holidays or get through them without slip-ups. Rather, the goal should be entering the holiday season with a p... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Elizabeth Holmes

“I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you’ve admitted that you’re not going to succeed.” – Elizabeth Holmes ... Read More...

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Best Places in The World to Go in 2023

AND AWAY WE GO – Nov. 2022 - What’s travel without a little turbulence, right? Tourism’s big return following the easing of Covid restrictions has been bumpier than we all hoped, thanks to understaffed airports... Read More...

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Jessica Simpson: Concern About Her Health and Sobriety After Ad Goes Viral

VIDEO – A SONG OF DESPAIR? – Nov. 7, 2022 - Jessica Simpson responded on Instagram after her Pottery Barn advertisement recently went viral for all the wrong reasons. “I needed to be in my studio today be... Read More...

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Mindfulness Meditation Can Help Treat Addiction

SITTING STILL AND BREATHING – Nov. 6, 2022 - This type of treatment is still being developed, Garland said, but the trials conducted have shown it is more effective than the usual treatment that people w... Read More...

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Trauma During Childhood Triples the Risk of Suffering as an Adult

CHILDHOOD IS A DANGER ZONE – Nov. 4, 2022 - Trauma in adulthood is also associated with a four-fold increase in the risk of a later mental disorder. The researchers point out, however, that there is less eviden... Read More...

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Early Start to Busy Thanksgiving Travel Season

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Nov. 14, 2022 - With 54.6 million people expected to travel over the holiday period -- a 1.5% increase from 2021, this Thanksgiving is expected to be the third busiest since AAA started tracki... Read More...

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Mindfulness Meditation Works as Well as Lexapro

INSURANCE NOT NECESSARY – Nov. 9, 2022 - Mindfulness is a form of meditation that emphasizes focusing only on what’s happening at the moment and dismissing intrusive thoughts. Sessions often start with breathin... Read More...

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A Day at The Wall by Brian Delate

WELCOME HOME – Nov. 11, 2022 - It’s a late sunny afternoon when my daughter Tirsa, now in sixth grade, arrives home from school. She runs in, drops her school backpack, and heads upstairs to my home offi... Read More...

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Why walking in nature is good for mind, body and soul

SITTING IN NATURE IS OK TOO – Oct. 30, 2022 - Studies of walking’s benefits date back to the 1950s, with the last decade of research preoccupied with the rise of “10,000 steps a day” challenges and the use of p... Read More...

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Yoga for Addiction Recovery and Mental Health

VIDEO – STRETCHING THE SOUL – Oct. 28, 2022 - Daffner said his recovery process was long, trying many times to get clean and never feeling fully prepared. But nearly nine years ago, something clicked when he be... Read More...

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I’m a Behavioral Scientist. Here’s How I Pull Myself Out of a Funk

GENTLY – Oct. 2022 - This capacity for inward reflection, as remarkable as it is, causes an unending amount of grief, anxiety, and sadness. It’s really too bad that the adaptive story in our long tale of... Read More...

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Got 420?… seconds? Brisk 7-Minute Walk Can Help Prevent Heart Disease

ONE STEP AT A TIME – Oct. 27, 2022 - Researchers add that easy activities such as washing the car or doing laundry, which have counted as exercise in earlier research, are not enough to stave off heart problems... Read More...

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Who Diagnoses Depression?

YOU AND YOUR THERAPIST – Oct. 27, 2022 - One study found that the greatest risk factor for depression was traumatic events in early childhood. Trauma in early childhood causes high levels of stress, which can a... Read More...

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Apple ‘pauses’ gambling ads after placing them next to kids’ games, addiction recovery apps

APPLE’S EVIL GENIUS PLACEMENT – Oct. 27, 2022 - The issue got attention on Twitter early Wednesday when an ad for “Jackpot World” appeared as a suggested app below RecoverMe, an app designed to help users recov... Read More...

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Jemele Hill Witnessed Mom’s Addiction and PTSD

FAMILIES CAN HEAL – Oct. 26, 2022 - “She’s dealing with trying to understand the pain that she is in but at the same time mother enough to tell me, ‘Do not do this ever. I’m suffering from something I don’t eve... Read More...

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Addiction, Mental Illness Rampant in Red States

VIDEO – BORN TO BE BLUE – Oct. 27, 2022 - They merged that information with mortality data spanning from 1999 to 2019, and found liberal policies were associated with lower deaths among people aged 25 to 64, ac... Read More...

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Best Movies About Addiction And Recovery

FILMS ARE GENIUS – Oct. 26, 2022 - Movies that detail addiction date as far back as D.W. Griffith’s 1912 Coca-Cola-inspired flick “For His Son,” a silent film about a doctor creating an addictive soft dr... Read More...

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Book Excerpt: HOME IS WITHIN YOU by Nadia Davis

A MOTHER’S LOVE CONQUER’S ALL – Oct. 22, 2022 - Since the day of my release from Santa Ana jail my head said, “Go alone and get it done quickly.” But that’s not how recovery from trauma, addiction, and chronic ... Read More...

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Matty Healy Finds Sobriety Easier In a Relationship

WITH GOD? OR GODDESS? – Oct. 17, 2022 - “If I made the decision, I could be on drugs by myself here at the moment and so I’m choosing not to. But if you have a partner, that choice is taken away a bit be... Read More...

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Over 50? Sleeping Under 5 Hours Has Health Hazards

YOU DON’T SNOOZE, YOU LOSE – Oct. 19, 2022 - Are you over 50 and getting five hours or less sleep a night? This could be a problem for your long-term health, warns a study published this week. Researc... Read More...

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Common Signs of Sociopath: ‘Harder to spot than psychopath.’

BLOOD DROP OUT – Oct. 16, 2022 - 4. They know how to get your blood boiling. Sociopaths know how to push the right psychological buttons to gain control in a relationship. Once they’ve achiev... Read More...

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Mike Patton, “The Drinking Just…Happened”

FAITH SOME MORE – Oct. 20, 2022 - Patton said he ultimately became depressed and was diagnosed with agoraphobia. According to the Mayo Clinic, agoraphobia is defined as “a type of anxiety disorder in which you ... Read More...

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‘You Don’t Look Anorexic’

EATING AS A RELIGION, OR NOT? – Oct. 18, 2022 - Food had long been a fraught subject in the Maxwell household. Her parents were also bigger-bodied and dieted frequently. They belonged to a fundamentalist Baptis... Read More...

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Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

EXERCISE THIS! – Oct. 14, 2022 - The film repeatedly portrays Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as beset by “skyrocketing crime and violent attacks” and repeatedly characterizes the city’s homeless populatio... Read More...

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