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How to Avoid Alzheimer's Disease and Senior Care

Alzheimer's disease is a devastating disease - it impairs your ability to reason and judge, remember and record, and carry out even the most routine of daily activities. If you begin to notice symptoms in yourself or a loved one, you may need constant care from a senior care service. Senior car

How to Quit Smoking During a Vacation

Most smokers don't quit the first time they try. Even those who use prescriptions, patches or hypnosis get discouraged and slip into old routines. This is because you're not just overcoming the addiction to nicotine; you're also breaking a long-term habit that comsumes a large part of your life. Man

Health, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

Next time you see a cancer patient banging his head to the mammoth-beats of Led Zeppelin, do not ever ask why. He might just be channeling the music's healing property to his ailment and health as a whole. Does it sound ridiculous?

How to Avoid Negativity

Sadly, the most influential thing in a person's life is the media as opposed to family, church, school, and friends like in the 1950's that influenced people then. The consequence for such negative change, has been that as a society we are filled with negative attitudes, negative emotions and negati

Co-Parenting the ADHD Or ODD Child

Parents are often so overwhelmed with their job as parents, they tend to forget about taking care of themselves and their spouse. It can be a struggle to teach a child good behaviors. Those with children who have been diagnosed with a behavioral disorder like ODD or ADHD are facing even more challen

What Are Signs & Symptoms of Inattentive ADD?

School can be challenging for children with Inattentive ADD.school image by dinostock from Fotolia.comLiving with a child with Inattentive Attention Deficit Disorder (Inattentive ADD) can appear to be like a roller coaster. New projects that appear simple to complete may not be simple for...

The Truth About Social Phobias

We have all experienced some kind of social awkwardness during one point or another in our lives.Sometimes we have the fear of talking in front of a large audience or we may feel like we don't fit in

What Makes You Happy?

Ok, I admit it, at times I feel like I am in the midst of a midlife crisis. Not really a crisis, I am not rushing to do anything radical. I guess a better way ...

The Right Way to Treat Sleep Panic Attacks

Although sleep panic attacks are rare, they can happen. An individual suffering from sleep attacks are fearful to go to sleep. Treatment is the same as someone with regular panic attacks.

Reality Therapy Techniques

Reality Therapy techniques teach that we have five basic needs. These needs are widely accepted. They are power, love, freedom, fun, and survival. These are the things that we are constantly seeking in life, whether we realize it or not. The problem is that we don't do a very good job sometimes

Addiction: Various Significant Signs

A lot of people use the term "addiction" more than it really ought to be used. People have alleged that any hankering, for anything from a favorite movie genre to a popular food, is something ...

Help Your ADHD Child Overcome Shyness

Many children who have ADHD tend to be chatterboxes, with mouths that move just as quickly as their hyperactive limbs. Other kids with ADHD barely say a word to people other than their parents due to extreme shyness. Here's how to help your shy ADHD child.

Be Happy to Stay Healthy

There are several factors being documented that determine a feeling of loneliness. According to a study, roughly 20% of the world population is lonely, regardless of sex, age or social status. Studies show that most at risk of getting lonely are women, single parents, the widowed and the unemployed;

Depression Facts for Kids

Depression is not limited only to adults. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, up to 5 percent of children experience a depressive episode at some point during their childhood or teenage years. It is important for parents and teachers to understand what symptoms of d

Looking for a Drug Rehab in New York

Individuals can by no means know what they're confronted with the situation of having a loved one dependent on alcohol or substance. Locate a New York drug rehab center to help your loved one

What do we mean by script?

Script is commonly contrasted to fortune or fate by those who do not understand this Transactional Analysis concept. So just what does a TA therapist mean by script? Script is a important concept in TA. ...