Interventions to Prevent Psychosis
An impending psychotic break can be identified and prevented if it is recognized early and appropriate steps are taken to head it off.
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How to Manage Your Mental Illness at Work
Read Full ArticleIf 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.
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Love it: Practicing the art of appreciation
Read Full ArticleWe 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.
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How Congress Can Address The Mental Health Issue Of Mass Shootings
Read Full ArticleSandy 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.
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Autism Largely Caused by Genetics, Not Environment
Read Full ArticleThe 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.
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Adult ADHD Myths and Facts
Read Full ArticleWhen 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.
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U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High
Read Full ArticleSuicides among teens have especially spiked, with an annual percentage change of 10% between 2014 and 2017 for 15- to 19-year-olds, researchers said.
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Ghost disease: A first-hand, disturbing account of delirium after surgery
Read Full ArticleIt 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.
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California Tests a Digital ‘Fire Alarm’ for Mental Distress
Read Full ArticleThe 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.
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Do This for 12 Minutes a Day to Release Negative Emotions – HealthZap
Read Full ArticleHappy, 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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41 facts about the brain you didn’t know! – HealthZap
Read Full ArticleThere have been some new discoveries about this mysterious organ which have been made just in the last 15 years. There have been myths about the brain which have been busted and here are … facts about the brain that are mind-boggling!
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I Work 3 Jobs Every Week - Here's How I Make Time to Exercise
Read Full ArticleII'm to busy. I can't afford a gym membership. I can't afford the expensive equipment. We've all said or heard these same old excuses as to why we can't make time or fit in a workout into our day. That stops now! Make your health a priority and quit the excuses. Here's how.
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I tried waking up at 5:30 a.m. for a week and it actually turned me into an early riser
Read Full ArticleSome big takeaways learned after deciding to shake things up and quit the late night monotony of staying up to do nothing and instead wake up at 5:30am for a week. How the daily routine change impacted a life. What could making a change do for you?
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It Took Me Years to Separate Working Out From Trying to Lose Weight. Here's How I Did It
Read Full ArticleWhen you workout you should lose weight, right? In today's society there is so much emphasis placed on how you look, fat/skinny/tall/short, and its come to the point where now our weight and sense of self worth are dangerously becoming one. You can make the shift in how you think, but why you ask.
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28 Signs You Grew Up With an Autoimmune Disease
Read Full ArticleSo rare, so hard to detect and diagnose. When you're life is turned upside down because you've been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Then what, what are the next steps to help you live as long of a healthy, happy life as possible.
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Health insurance: California bills would reinstate individual mandate
Read Full ArticleLawmakers in California have introduced bills that would reinstate the individual mandate, requiring all state residents to have health insurance starting in 2020 or pay a tax penalty. Fair or unfair?
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4 signs you're eating out of boredom and 4 ways to break the habit
Read Full ArticleAre you an emotional eater? Are you like the majority who lives in the guilt of knowing they eat mindlessly, often overeating more than you'd like, and tired of the "after." Fear not, become one with these 4 ways to break the habit once you've admitted why you're engaging in the unhealthy behaviors.
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Do Social Media Hurt Mental Health of US Young?
Read Full ArticleInvestigators found that beginning in the mid-2000s, those under the age of 26 started reporting a huge rise in symptoms related to depression, distress and suicidal thoughts or attempts.
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A Deep Look Into How Selma Blair’s MS Diagnosis Has Totally Changed Her Life
Read Full ArticleDevastating diagnosis, fight for your life. How Selma Blair's MS Diagnosis has completely changed every aspect of her life.
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Cutting One Ingredient Helped This Guy Lose 150 Pounds in 9 Months
Read Full ArticleSugar, it's evil. One man lost 150 lbs just by cutting it out of his life. "If you want something bad enough you will get it. Just start slow and set yourself up for success by setting small achievable goals for yourself every day. Yes, every day! When you do achieve them, you will feel amazing and continue to set more and more goals. Always keep them realistic and in sight." How to kick the bad habit.
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Survey: 1 in 3 Older Adults Feel Lonely
Read Full ArticleOver 50, not feeling the lust for life, the endless energy, the excitement you once felt when you wake up each morning. Survey's are showing that 1 in 3 older adults feel lonely and the numbers don't seem to be going down. What leads to these feelings of loneliness, how can they be nurtured and "solved."
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25 Best Habits to Have in Life
Read Full ArticleAs creatures of habit everything we think, do and say is a result of a deep-seated habit that was etched into our mind through the years. Our daily rituals keep us stuck or help propel us to take action and make progress in our life. Turns out if you can implement these 25 habits into your life you'll be on your way to living your BEST life possible.
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What to do when a child experiences grief
Read Full ArticleLosing someone or something we love is part of life. For children this may be a new experience, grief and sorrow may be something your child has never experienced before. What to do to help guide them through and keep the communication lines open.
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Insurance coverage not keeping up with telemedicine
Read Full ArticleDr. Bart Demaerschalk, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic says telemedicine can reduce costs by eliminating emergency air and ground transportation. Virtual doctor’s visits connecting patients and physicians who are miles apart are increasing, but insurance coverage hasn’t caught up with the move toward telemedicine.
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