Leslie Glass's Blog, page 228
October 16, 2019
For Years, Alcohol Was My Only Comfort. Then It Nearly Killed Me.
By 2006, it was time for me to re-enlist. My flight chief and the commander informed me that if I did I would have to go back to the flight line. For me this was not an option, so in 2007, I left active duty. The next nine years were consumed by spiraling depression, increased...
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We Are At The Beginning Of A Global Mental Health Revolution
In the United States, mental disorders among children and adolescents have reached a crisis level, with the country experiencing its highest suicide rate in 50 years. Internationally, mental disorders — ranging from something more common like depression to a more complex illness like schizophrenia — affects hundreds of millions of people. And in...
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Eggshell Relationships
No one calls them “eggshell relationships,” but that is what they turn into. Relationships where you have to tread lightly—each day you wake up you are figuratively having to walk on eggshells because your partner or someone you know behaves or acts all too frequently with a constellation of traits that are simply toxic. So...
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October 15, 2019
Quiz: Do You Know How to Spot A Narcissist?
Narcissism is more than simply being selfish. It's a disorder.
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Video: Brief History of Intoxicants
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October 14, 2019
The New Sobriety
And sober foodies need no longer feel left out for ordering a Diet Coke at critically lauded restaurants. Patrons at Cote, Daniel and French Laundry can now order nonalcoholic substitutes for a negroni or a dark-and-stormy from Curious Elixirs, a new line of individually bottled alcohol-free craft cocktails. They are also available at nightclubs like...
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Inside The Elementary School Where Addiction Sets The Curriculum
MINFORD, Ohio — Inside an elementary school classroom decorated with colorful floor mats, art supplies and building blocks, a little boy named Riley talked quietly with a teacher about how he had watched his mother take “knockout pills” and had seen his father shoot up “a thousand times.” Riley, who is 9 years old, described...
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Why So Many of Us Don’t Lose Weight When We Exercise
Afterward, everyone returned to the lab for comprehensive remeasurements. As expected, the control group’s numbers, including their weights and resting metabolic rates, had not budged. But neither had those of most of the exercisers. A few had dropped pounds, but about two-thirds of those in the shorter-workout group and 90 percent of those in the...
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Smash the Wellness Industry
I had paid a lot of money to see a dietitian once before, in New York. When I told her that I loved food, that I’d always had a big appetite, she had nodded sympathetically, as if I had a tough road ahead of me. “The thing is,” she said with a grimace, “you’re a...
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