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Mental Health : Health & Medical

Daydreaming Your Way to a Healthy Mind

In our stressful, busy lives, any chance to rest, relax and gain insight into current issues is welcome. Recent studies by mental health professionals suggest daydreaming offers all that and more.

A Life Coach Could Find Success Where a Therapist Can't

For a more proactive method of treatment, a life coach can be a powerful ally where therapy and counseling has failed. With adaptability and direct methods being their chief strengths, life coaches are a growing profession that has helped innumerable people with a breadth of issues.

Anxiety May Increase Risk of Heart Disease

Anxiety disorders significantly increase a person's risk of developing heart disease in the future and also raise the odds of suffering a fatal cardiac event, two new studies suggest.

How to Be Happy: Harnessing the Power of Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology's rapidly expanding evidence base hold the keys to a happier and more resilient life. In this article we take a look at some of positive psychology's most important ideas and how they can be applied.

Dangers of Nicotine

Many people smoke tobacco in an active or a passive way. Both ways are dangerous to the body. There are anti-smoking campaigns and warnings everywhere telling us about those dangers, but we still continue to smoke. If you wonder why, the answer is nicotine. Though it is not the most toxic or dangero

Mental Illness in Children

Learn more from WebMD about mental illness in children, including risk factors and treatments.

Food and Mood, What's the Link?

I am firmly of the belief that every item of food or drink we consume has a biochemical effect on us, some negative and some of course positive. Nutrients are natural food stuffs that are not processed or altered from their original state by modern food industry practise.

Are You Serious Enough to Cure From Panic Attacks?

If you are in the middle Of searching for better panic attacks cure, STOP for a second and read this first. If you really want to get your life back, be serious. Here are the 5 Solid Gold Questions I used to ask myself when I first decided I have a panic disorder and when I want to get serious to cu

What Can You Do For Brain Injury Awareness Month?

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. It is important that people be made aware of the dangers they put themselves in and the risks they take so that they can avoid being included in the statistics of a brain injured survivor. What can you do to help others avoid the pitfalls?

Bipolar Disorder and Confidentiality

When you admit your loved one with bipolar disorder into treatment, you are given many papers to sign; among them being a confidentiality agreement. This is to ensure that your loved one's records will remain confidential.

Chronic Anxiety

What is chronic anxiety? Individuals who suffer from chronic anxiety are those who are constantly worrying about different things. This could be relationships, work, money, family, friends, health or a wide variety of other things. ...

The Act Of Delaying Premature Ejaculatione

There are certain steps that a person must follow when delaying premature ejaculation. Premature ejaculation is when a man reaches orgasm after a very short while after penetration. This problem is actually more common in ...

What Is Masked Depression?

You may have heard about the mind-body connection -- how the power of the mind can influence how your body feels. If you feel depressed, you may sense it in your bones -- your body may ache and your head may be pounded by migraines. Masked depression revolves around this mind-body concept. When "mas

Schizoid Affective Disorder - What You Need to Know

A lot of mental health-related disorders and diseases are not understood. While recent medical news and reports have helped to increase the general public's knowledge of certain mental health problems, some disorders are still very unknown. Schizoid Affective Disorder is one of those disorders