_ Mental & Emotional Health Seven Ways to Spring Clean Your Mind By Sondra Forsyth article Spring is almost here, and many people will jump into the annual spring cleaning ritual in their homes and offices, … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health Hospice Use May Ease Depression in Surviving Spouses By article An Institute of Medicine's report on improving the quality of care near the end of life highlights the need for … Read More→
Mental & Emotional Health Short-Term Debt and Depressive Symptoms By article Results of a study led by Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and published April 30th 2015 in the … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health Study Links Facebook Use to Depressive Symptoms By article The social media site Facebook can be an effective tool for connecting with new and old friends. However, some users … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health Do You Have a ΓÇ£SubclinicalΓÇ¥ Eating Disorder? By article According Stanford psychologist Dr. Megan Jones, who also serves as Chief Science Officer of Lantern, ┬áthe groundbreaking mobile tool that … Read More→
Mental & Emotional Health Warning Signs of Potential Suicide By article Suicide causes immeasurable pain, suffering, and loss to individuals, families, and communities nationwide. On average, 100 Americans die by suicide … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health 4 Ways to Start Healing Your Life By article Neglect. Abuse. Divorce. Addiction. These are just a few of the life experiences that can leave children emotionally bruised or … Read More→
Mental & Emotional Health Biological Causes of Mental Illness Decrease DocsΓÇÖ Empathy By article Give therapists and psychiatrists information about the biology of a mental disorder, and they have less — not more — … Read More→
Mental & Emotional Health Substance Abuse and Mental Health Recovery at Midlife: If Not Now, When? By article September is not just the month school starts again. It is the 25th Annual National Recovery Month. The mission is … Read More→
Mental & Emotional Health Take Off Your Mask of Depression By article The tragic death of Robin Williams has stirred up so much conversation about depression, a difficult topic but one that … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health Watch: Do You Have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? By Jane Farrell article Here's another addition to our Third Age video collection. Press play to start learning.
_ Mental & Emotional Health Should You See a Shrink? By article By Sherrie Campbell, PhD It is often the assumption that if you go to therapy that you have serious problems you cannot manage on your own and there is something fundamentally wrong with you. In reality, if someone is attending therapy, the person tends to be on the healthier side of self-love and self-awareness. Because seeing a therapist is stigmatized many people who want to seek help, either often they donΓÇÖt, or they keep their therapy private so they do not invoke judgment.
_ Mental & Emotional Health How to Cultivate Contentment By Jane Farrell article By Mayo Clinic Staff Do you know how to be happy? Or are you waiting for happiness to find you?
_ Mental & Emotional Health When It's More Than Just Anxiety By Jane Farrell article Although thereΓÇÖs a lot of talk about depression, another condition ΓÇô Generalized Anxiety Disorder ΓÇô doesnΓÇÖt get nearly as much attention. And that can make it harder for friends and family to understand whatΓÇÖs happening when someone they love has GAD. Here, from the National Institute of Mental Health, are some things you should know: What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
_ Mental & Emotional Health Mental Illness: What's Normal, What's Not By Jane Farrell article What's the difference between mental health and mental illness? Sometimes the answer is clear, but often the distinction between mental health and mental illness isn't so obvious. For example, if you're afraid of giving a speech in public, does it mean you have a mental health condition or a run-of-the-mill case of nerves? Or, when does shyness become a case of social phobia? Here's some help in telling the difference. It's often difficult to distinguish normal mental health from mental illness because there's no easy test to show if something's wrong.
_ Mental & Emotional Health ΓÇ£Forgive and ForgetΓÇ¥ Really Works By Sondra Forsyth article If you’re still holding a grudge about a wrong someone did to you, you’d probably do well to follow the old adage that tells us to “forgive and forget”. That’s the advice of researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, who showed that the details of an offense are more likely to be wiped from your memory when you’ve forgiven that transgression. You don’t even have to forgive the offender in person. You can simply resolve to pardon the person in your mind.
_ Mental & Emotional Health May Is Mental Health Month: WhereΓÇÖs Your Sanity? By article By Dr. Claudia LuizΓÇ¿ΓÇ¿ Everybody is overwhelmed and nobody is afraid to talk about it. Historically speaking, we are more sophisticated than ever emotionally; we are highly aware of what we feel, and we can talk about it. If we don’t feel better, it’s only because our methods for dealing with what we feel are still so antiquated. It’s just the same-old, same-old: try to be better, get inspired to change. But it doesn’t’ work. ΓÇ¿ ΓÇ¿
_ Mental & Emotional Health A Healthcare Team Helps Women Beat Depression By article A collaborative approach to depression counseling for women at obstetrics and gynecology clinics involving psychiatrists, clinicians, specialists, and depression care managers is an improvement over typical of mental health care at specialty clinics. That is the finding of a study done at the University of Washington and published May 7th 2014 in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. A release from the university notes that approximately one-third of American women list an obstetrician/gynecologist as their primary physician.