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How to Reduce Holiday Stress

The holiday season is marked with extra gatherings with loved ones and with overall holiday preparation. Work-life balance can be quite difficult to attain during the holiday season, and it is not uncommon for professionals to feel overwhelmed and torn between multiple obligations. Follow these simple tips to regain your sanity and to fully maximize...

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A Fun but Effective Psychological Trick for Managing Anxiety

Whether public speaking makes you weak in the knees or the thought of stepping foot on a plane turns your stomach, everyone experiences anxiety about something. Anxiety isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s meant to keep you safe. If someone dared you to jump off a bridge or tried to talk you into a get-rich-quick scheme, your anxiety should...

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Depression Is Anxiety

Anxiety and depression are the same entity. Depression describes the constellation of symptoms created by relentless anxiety. Since anxiety describes the feeling generated by elevated stress hormones and the autonomic nervous system, it is descriptive term and not a diagnosis. Neither is the term, “relaxed” a diagnosis when you are laying in sun with you...

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Why More Psychiatrists Are Recommending Yoga

A recent study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice offered yet another piece of compelling evidence that yoga may be an effective treatment option for depressed patients (Scott, T). In the study, 30 participants were separated into two groups. One group received three 90-minute yoga classes and 4 homework sessions per week and the second...

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Tips for Celebrating the Holidays with Recovering Family Members and Friends

Peter Gaumond, Chief, ONDCP Recovery Branch This time each year can be stressful for anyone, but the holidays present a special challenge for people recovering from an addiction. Those in long-term recovery typically are adept at navigating the minefield of temptation at holiday social gatherings. But many of those in their first year of recovery,...

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Depression And Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study

People living with air pollution have higher rates of depression and suicide, a systematic review of global data has found. Cutting air pollution around the world to the EU’s legal limit could prevent millions of people becoming depressed, the research suggests. This assumes that exposure to toxic air is causing these cases of depression. Scientists...

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Helping Stressed-Out Teens

Source: Lacie Slezak/Unsplash Dear Christine, I know you have teenage daughters around the same age, so I’m hoping you have some insight about how to help kids deal with stress. My youngest daughter has always been confident, gregarious, and goal-oriented. But starting in her sophomore year in high school, she’s not been herself. She’s stressed...

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It’s Really Okay To Ask For Help

We can’t get through life alone – but so many of us are afraid to take the plunge and find help. Whether it’s because of our independence, pride, anxiety, confidence, or just lack of knowledge of where to get this help, keep in mind that everybody has needed some guidance at one point. Getting help...

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How to Stop and Overcome Emotional Abuse

What is emotional abuse and what are its symptoms?  The answer can vary across campuses.  What can be agreed on, however, is how traits of emotional abuse differ from physical abuse.  Physical abuse often bears bruises, cuts, scars, and more.  Emotional abuse, however, is difficult to detect because it is primarily inflicted through words and patterns of behavior, leaving...

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Emotional abuse: The short- and long-term effects

Types of emotional abuse A person may be subjected to emotional abuse from a number of different people throughout their life. Emotional abuse has a number of potential sources. These include: The sections below cover each of these sources in more detail. Parental emotional abuse People of all ages can be subjected to emotional abuse,...

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