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Pro Ana versus Pro Recovery Websites: Choosing Hope Over Despair

Pro Ana versus Pro Recovery Websites: Choosing Hope Over Despair

Pro Ana websites are flourishing across the internet. These sites lead women toward unhealthy behaviors that have the potential to destroy them. It is essential that the internet community combat this
Alternative Approaches to Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Alternative Approaches to Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The sad fact of life is that often people experience some sort of traumatic event. These events can be difficult to deal with in the short term, but in certain cases, these traumatic events have ...
Boston Bombing Aftermath: Fear, Empathy, Anger

Boston Bombing Aftermath: Fear, Empathy, Anger

It’s normal to feel a range of emotions the day after the terrorist bombing attack at the Boston Marathon, even if you were thousands of miles away.
Nutrition, Supplementation and Acupuncture Support For Cerebral Palsy

Nutrition, Supplementation and Acupuncture Support For Cerebral Palsy

Effective support for people living with Cerebral Palsy begins with proper nutrition, digestive support and inflammatory control.The best way to accomplish this is through the use of sound nutrition, high quality supplements and anti-inflammatory therapies like acupuncture.
Alcohol & Drugs in the Workplace

Alcohol & Drugs in the Workplace

Substance abuse in the workplace can seriously impair proper judgment and on-the-job performance. These substances are not limited to street drugs: the use of alcohol, prescription drugs, and even over-the-counter medications can affect decision-making abilities and motor skills. Despite the danger,
Is There Housing Assistance for a Bipolar Patient?

Is There Housing Assistance for a Bipolar Patient?

According to the Meehl Foundation, an organization that provides support for people with bipolar disorder, about 1.2 percent of all Americans suffer from the condition. Not all people with bipolar disorder require housing assistance, but some do.
Why Smoking Gives You Terrible Breath

Why Smoking Gives You Terrible Breath

Smoking, to put it bluntly, stinks. The smell clings to your clothes and hair and makes you smell bad in general, notes Youngwomenshealth.org. Cigarettes also produce internal odors by causing bad breath.
Cause of Alzheimer's Disease

Cause of Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease that slowly deteriorates memory and cognitive abilities. It is the most common cause of dementia with 10% of the population over 65 years of age and 50% of those over 85 having Alzheimer's disease. Research has also determined that the in
Understanding Anxiety Through Evolution

Understanding Anxiety Through Evolution

Everyone gets anxious from time to time but there are some people who just feel anxious all the time. They suffer from social anxiety and fear being criticized or scrutinized by others. Nowadays we tend to fear this criticism and looking stupid in front of others more than many other far more danger
Study Finds Doctors Prescribing More Sedatives

Study Finds Doctors Prescribing More Sedatives

Frequent use of these powerful drugs along with narcotic painkillers may explain more medication deaths
Mental Health Disorders May Shorten Life Span: Study

Mental Health Disorders May Shorten Life Span: Study

Researchers find people with psychiatric conditions live an average of 10 fewer years
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as Childhood hyperkinesis is a disorder mostly presented in kids at an early age. A person with ADHD is very inattentive, over-active, and impulsiv
Bipolar TV from WebMD

Bipolar TV from WebMD

Tune in and learn. Reliable information about bipolar disorder, current information, and real life stories about people living with bipolar disorder and tips for coping every day – in each episode.
Control your weight using EFT

Control your weight using EFT

Weight loss has been easily achieved using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). This was introduced by Gary Craig as an alternative of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and is useful in solving peculiar prob
How to Stop Being Co-Dependent

How to Stop Being Co-Dependent

We depend on many things in life. However, what some people depend on can be destructive. Drinking, gambling or fits of rage may be the crutch used by some to get through each day. Addictive behaviors can be very difficult to break; so it is understandable that we want to help others eliminate negat
Acute Treatment of Mania in Children and Adolescents

Acute Treatment of Mania in Children and Adolescents

Manic episodes in children and adolescents may manifest differently than in adults, and treatment can vary. This review looks at current best-evidence for treating acute mania in this population.
Essential Tips For Panic Attacks That You Need to Know

Essential Tips For Panic Attacks That You Need to Know

The thought that you are going to die very soon during a panic attack can be extremely frightening and is best understood only by those who have experienced one. Add this together with everything else that is going on such as shaking, chest pains, rapid breathing, a chest pounding heartbeat and dizz
Everything You Need to Know About Anxiety and How to Treat it Now

Everything You Need to Know About Anxiety and How to Treat it Now

To start effectively treating your anxiety, you will need to have as many different methods of treatment as possible available to you. This article will get you started by looking at some of the best ...
Fit and Active Lifestyle For 40+

Fit and Active Lifestyle For 40+

Beyond the age of 40, your fitness starts taking unexpected turns and your health and overall well-being cannot maintained solely through a well balanced diet. Activities that were easy in your 20s or 30s and had done wonders to your body just don't work at this age. Those workouts may start to
What Is ADD? Getting Past Lists of Symptoms

What Is ADD? Getting Past Lists of Symptoms

What is ADD? This article offers a better way to define ADD, including that the defining quality of ADD is not attention deficits but rather a state of mind wherein these folks have an excess of attention.