Mental Health

PTSD Doubled in 5 Years Among College Students

FRIGHTENING – May 31, 2024 - Researchers found that 7.5 percent of students said they had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in 2022, the latest year available. Most of the surge was recorded during the Cov... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionJune 4 2024Mental HealthTrauma

Are We Addicted to Addiction?

PROBABLY – May 22, 2024 - At the heart of many of these claims is dopamine, a molecule that surges in the brain when people take some addictive drugs. But while dopamine has become a buzzword relating to anyth... Read More...

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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?

SILK PILLOWS HELP? – May 15, 2024 - We spend around one-third of our lives asleep. In the average lifespan, this roughly amounts to 25 years! While most people can recollect fragments of their dream life, v... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMay 28 2024Mental Health

Meditation Practices Linked to Altered States of Consciousness

IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? – May 21, 2024 - The popularity of meditation, mindfulness, yoga, and similar practices has surged due to their potential health benefits. However, the experiences and effects of these pra... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMay 28 2024Mental Health

Enjoy World Turtle Day With 15 Photographs of the Delightful Reptiles

THE TURTLE WON – May 23, 2024 - Started by the American Tortoise Rescue, the first World Turtle Day was observed on May 23, 2000. For more than 30 years, the organization has helped rehome turtles and tortois... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMay 28 2024Mental Health

How The Heart Rewires The Brain

THINKING YOU’RE IN LOVE – 2024 - New science shows the heart is far more than a pump. This intelligent organ generates powerful electromagnetic signals that fundamentally influence brain processes like cogniti... Read More...

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WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH?

EASY DOES IT – May 2024 - First and foremost, a healthy mind is an editing a mind, an organ that manages to sieve, from thousands of stray, dramatic, disconcerting or horrifying thoughts, those particula... Read More...

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Spreading Hope and Sobriety Through Music

VIDEO – JOYOUSLY – May 14, 2024 - Daniel Rochelle, Jr.’s father and namesake was a huge influence in his life, his hero and the person who taught him about music. He was a wonderful father but was addicted to alcoh... Read More...

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The Most Misunderstood Addiction

LOSING IS ALSO ADDICTIVE – May 14, 2024 - With bright, flashing lights and the rush of excitement with winning, it’s no surprise that gambling leads to a shocking, drugless high. Compulsive gambling, also call... Read More...

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Miss USA Noelia Voigt Resigns to Focus on Her Mental Health

VIDEO – BEAUTY AND COURAGE – May 8, 2024 - Noelia Voigt shockingly resigned as Miss USA. “Never compromise your physical and mental well-being,” wrote Voigt. “Our health is our wealth.” The 24-year-old is stepping ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMay 14 2024Mental Health

Psychopathic Women Move Their Heads Very Little When Talking

SOUND FAMILIAR? – May 8, 2024 - A strong sense of egocentricity and a grandiose sense of self-worth are also common, making them overconfident and disdainful of others. Individuals with pronounced psychopathic... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMay 14 2024Mental Health

Mindfulness Training Reduces Relapses

TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS – May 6, 2024 - Supplementing standard opioid addiction treatment with Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) - an intervention that incorporates mindfulness training, savori... Read More...

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5 Best Supplements for Healthy Aging

VIDEO – AND FRESH AIR – April 28, 2024 - “It would be wonderful if we all ate all our fruits and vegetables and our whole grains and our lean proteins and got everything that we needed from the food supply, but unf... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMay 7 2024Mental Health

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome as an Overnight Success

I’M FAMOUS – April 29, 2024 - “Impostor syndrome is rooted in a fear of being discovered as inadequate,” explains Dr. Louise Stanger, a renowned interventionist and expert on behavioral health. “Those who expe... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMay 7 2024Mental Health

Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health Addresses Hope and Moral Injury

A GATHERING OF ANGELS – April 23, 2024 - For the third year, the prestigious UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center hosted the annual Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health Conference. Overflowing with cl... Read More...

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Warning of ‘Cascading’ Alzheimer’s Risk From Alcohol and Stress

NO ONE IS IMMUNE – April 26, 2024 - We know that our risk of developing Alzheimer’s is dependent on a range of genetic and environmental factors. And among these environmental factors are alcohol consumption a... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionApril 30 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental Health

1400 Clinicians on What’s Driving Youth Mental Health Crisis

iPHONES OR TIKTOK – April 10, 2024 - Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pa... Read More...

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Cure for Addiction and Traumatic Brain Injury

IT COULD WORK – April 9, 2024 - New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate has nearly qu... Read More...

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GOP Leader Apologizes for Trashing & Vomiting in Hotel

TOO MUCH SUN? – April 10, 2024 - George Riley, a leader of the Republican Party of Florida has apologized for being excessively drunk and urinating and vomiting all over his room at a hotel last week, saying h... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionApril 23 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental Health

Teens Mental Health – Anxiety and Smartphones

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – April 3, 2024 - Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” published last week, argues that the smartphone-driven “great rewiring of childhood” is causing an “epidemic ... Read More...

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Psychodrama Therapy Gave Me 10 Years of Therapy in One Day

TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT – April 3, 2024 - I sat in front of my “real father” as he stared right through me like he always does. “I don’t see you,” he said in a stern voice. “You never have,” I whispered quietly back. ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryApril 16 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental Health

Discovering Truth about Our Brains and Addiction

IT’S ABOUT TIME – April 10, 2024 - Ronstroem hopes to help answer one critical question: how does drug abuse influence reward pathways in the brain? Specifically, his research focuses on uncovering how some dr... Read More...

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Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids

OR IS IT TOO LATE? – March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis that is driven, in large part, by how much of their day is spent online. The numbers are horrifying: r... Read More...

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Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids

SOUL DAMAGE – March 31, 2024 - “We’ve never seen anything like this. There’s massive evidence of harm,” Jonathan Haidt says. “It happened in many countries at the same time, at a specific point in time: the mo... Read More...

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Screen Time Addiction Needs to be Dealt with NOW

DISTRACTIONS FROM ONESELF – April 1, 2024 - Getting addicted is the most logical thing for the brain to do. Sure, accomplishing a goal such as finishing an economics chapter, or going to the gym, would release... Read More...

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A Psychologist Explains The Struggles Of ‘Floating Duck Syndrome’

NOT PECKING – March 28, 2024 - Just as the duck’s graceful movements belie the intense effort required to propel itself forward, so do those affected by floating duck syndrome endeavor to present an image of success ... Read More...

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Rapper Takura Reveals His 7-Year Battle Against Drugs

WE’RE ALL ONE – April 2, 2024 - The rapper sat for an interview and revealed that he abused drugs for seven years. He said he started taking drugs in 2017. Takura said he ended up going to drug rehab this year. Check... Read More...

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Seriously Mentally Ill People Should Consider a High-Fat Keto Diet

GRILLED CHEESE THERAPY? – April 2, 2024 - After four months on a ketogenic diet, 79 percent of participants showed a “clinically meaningful improvement” in psychiatric symptoms. Researchers theorize that the d... Read More...

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How “Toddler Milk” Is Marketed to Parents

SELL SELL SELL LIE – April 2, 2024 - The U.S. government has repeatedly fought against advertising restrictions on these products around the globe. These drinks, targeted to young kids, may promise un... Read More...

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Anne Lamott’s Meditations on Life – Love and the Cycle of Aging REGISTER NOW

SOBRIETY BECOMES HER – Happening Tomorrow April 10, 2024 - In a series of deeply personal Washington Post columns, Anne Lamott has explored aging from the miracles that age makes easier to see to the “superpo... Read More...

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