That stabbing pain near your eye. A throbbing pain on one side of the head. The vise-like pressure around the top third of the head. A dull ache at the base of the skull. All of these pains are referred to as headaches, but where the pain is situated may actually signal different types of headaches — and different types of treatment.
Frequent pot smokers are more than twice as likely to suffer a stroke compared with those who don't partake, the first study found.
The online survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, also found that 56% of respondents have significant stress about the 2020 presidential election, an increase from 52% in the period before the 2016 election.
Getting more exercise could help ward off depression, even if you have a genetic risk for it, new research shows.
Orange County has experienced an alarming rise in children going to the emergency room for mental illness crises and suicide attempts, according to a new report from county officials, nonprofit groups and university researchers.
The rate at which children were hospitalized for serious mental illnesses rose 87 percent from 2008 to 2017, the latest available year of data, according to the annual Conditions of Children in Orange County report.
Most trans fats were banned in the United States last year. But foods with less than a half-gram of trans fats can be labeled as containing zero, so some foods still contain them.
Physical and mental stress during pregnancy may influence the baby's sex, and physical stress may increase the risk of preterm birth, a new study suggests.
Researchers assessed 187 healthy pregnant women between 18 and 45 years of age. About 17% were mentally stressed, with high levels of depression, anxiety and perceived stress. Sixteen percent were physically stressed, with higher daily blood pressure and calorie intake than other women in the study.
Health care professionals rely on several medications to lessen symptoms of agitation and aggression, but these medications carry significant risks. One, ironically, is worsening memory and thinking, the researchers said.
Emotional wellbeing is the foundation of happiness, physical health and even harmony in social relationships, says Sister B.K. Shivani in a Facebook Live interview Written By: Barkha Mathur | Edited By: Aishwarya Upadhyay | October 08, 2019 5:38 PM | 0 Emotional health is as important for a proper growth of a person as the physical health, says Sister B.K. Shivani during a Facebook Live discussion with NDTV New Delhi: Each one of us experience multiple emotions in our daily lives.
CBN News Health Reporter Lorie Johnson Explains the Mental Health Crisis in America Tens of thousands of people live on the streets of our most beloved cities. It's unsanitary and unsafe. One psychiatrist who closely examined Skid Row, the notorious section of Los Angeles that has widely become known the worst and most profound depiction of America's homeless crisis, says many people who wound up there as well as in nearby hospitals and jails are mentally ill and simply had nowhere else to go.
Self-help ideas can help some people, but they don't always help everyone.
If you’ve ever wondered why self-help works for some, but not for others, especially when one is battling depression, this is essential viewing. In this cinematic video, Entrepreneur Network partner Ben Angel shares his own experience with depression, and why he believes the self-help industry has gotten it seriously wrong.
Researchers found that between 2009 and 2017, the percentage of U.S. children and teens with a developmental disability rose from just over 16% to nearly 18%.
Nearly two out of every five Americans say politics is stressing them out, and one in five are sleepless or have had friendships damaged over politics, the researchers found.
It can be difficult in the twenty first century to find the ideal work life balance. We can be at work for over eight hours a day with an overbearing boss and unrealistic targets to meet. The risk of burnout is immense if you are heading home after your day in the office, only to whip open your laptop to continue working into the small hours. When do you get time to think about your own mental well being? Without the capability to be able to switch off, you risk running yourself into the ground. This is when burnout can occur.
An impending psychotic break can be identified and prevented if it is recognized early and appropriate steps are taken to head it off.
If you suffer from depression, anxiety, PTSD or another mental illness, here are some real-world tips to help you stay happy and healthy at work.
We can train our brains to look for the positive, even in stressful situations. Start by identifying things that fill you with anger, bitterness, envy or judgment. Then find comparative things in your own life that bring you joy or fill you with pride and consider how you have been blessed. It may take a few tries, but even if you fail at first, don’t give up. Say thank you for the small things, and mean it.
Sandy Hook, Parkland, Orlando, Virginia Beach and now the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting evoke painful memories of terrible violence and innocent deaths. Our nation reacts with memorials, discussions of access to firearms, followed by increased funding for safety measures such as armed guards, cameras and bullet proof glass at secure entrances. But far more needs to be addressed than just stopping the bullet. Tragedies grab headlines, but hardly tell the full story.
The largest study of its kind, involving more than 2 million people across five countries, finds that autism spectrum disorders are 80% reliant on inherited genes.
That means that environmental causes are responsible for just 20% of the risk.
The findings could open new doors to research into the genetic causes of autism, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says affects 1 in every 59 U.S. children.
When it comes to ADHD in adults, there's a lot of misinformation out there about the symptoms that go with it and the best way to get help. Learn how to cut through the confusion to get the treatment you need.
Suicides among teens have especially spiked, with an annual percentage change of 10% between 2014 and 2017 for 15- to 19-year-olds, researchers said.
It is a ghost disease. More than 2 million Americans are haunted every year by postoperative delirium, a strange, creeping state of confusion that the medical profession admits it can neither understand nor cure. It is a problem that affects the brain, divorces its victims from reality and plunges them into a state of derangement — and few doctors can tell them why. Indeed, physicians usually cannot even see the symptoms of this disease until the patient already is in its grip.
The state is teaming up with Silicon Valley to make mental health services more available. Promises abound, and so do potential problems.
For the past year, California state and county mental health officials, along with patient representatives, have met regularly with Mindstrong and another company, 7 Cups, to test smartphoneapps for people receiving care through the state’s public mental health system. Officials from 13 counties and two cities are involved, and the apps are already available to the public.
Happy, smile, sad, frown. Controlling your emotions seems like a life long practice. Feelings aren't right / wrong they just are. All we can do is control how we react to things. We've heard it's cathartic to seek professional help say from a therapist, writing about it and releasing the power "it" has over you. Fact is doing these things actually is very healthy for you, but how?
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