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Tortured Souls: Poets and the Sylvia Plath Effect

Poets have a a reputation as "tortured souls". Indeed, it seems poets do have a higher occurence of mental illness and suicide than any other creative group. This phenomenon has been labelled the "Sylvia Plath Effect."

20 comments    depression suicide sylvia plath
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Does Life Begin at Fifty or Begin to End

Does life start at 50? Is it the mid-summer of my life where everything is rosie or is it the begining of autum, the begining of the end so to speak.

36 comments    health illness hospitals
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Milk in homeopathy, a spiritual perspective

Milk is our first food,it is also a source of great healing at all levels. The various homeopathic Lac remedies can help you to understand the origin of many emotional and physical ailments such eating disorders, drug addiction, self-harm, skin problems, depression, sexual dysfunction, fertility and more.

3 comments    food skin spirituality
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Are Wrinkles Droopy Eyes and Dry Skin A Sign of Bad Health - True Facts About Your Face

A guide on how to check that your wrinkles puffy face and other facial anomalies are not caused by an underlying illness.

66 comments    high blood pressure wrinkles
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Diagnosis Terminal Lung Cancer - The day she quit smoking

Getting diagnosed with terminal lung cancer is difficult. Quitting smoking is difficult as well. Sadly, it is a lesson people don't often learn until it is too late. My grandmother is one of those people.

16 comments    cancer smoking quit smoking
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Murderous Children: 15 Year Old Alyssa Bustamante Brutally Murdered a 9 Year Old Girl

9-Year-Old Elizabeth Olten. When most teenagers have a Friday off school, they sleep in, maybe get together with friends, or bum around the house in pajamas all day. When 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante of Missouri had a Friday off from school, she...

64 comments    murder mental illness missouri
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Goldfish Care, Breeds and Goldfish Diseases

Goldfish are very likely to get a disease at some point in their lives. It's very common. Goldfish diseases can be very easily treated, either by simple methods done at home or by buying specialised medications. Learn about common goldfish diseases and how to treat then easily.

5 comments    aquarium goldfish aquarium care
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Trypophobia - A Fear of Holes

I confess! I have suffered from this phobia (Trypophobia) since early childhood. I remember feeling utterly compelled to pick apart my crumpets at breakfast and crush my grandmothers dried seedpods in her pot-pourri but it was only recently that I...

41 comments    thoughts fear mental illness
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What is Manic depressive psychosis and how to tackle it?

Manic depression, more commonly known as bipolar, is a mood disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. It has several different manifestations, ranging from mild to severe. Bipolar I is the most intense, from what I have observed. Moods...

34 comments    health mental health psychiatry
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Fibromyalgia: Explaining and Understanding- 2 Tough Challenges

Explaining and Understanding Fibromyalgia are two tough challenges that I can understand through personal experience. These challenges are faced by the person that has the illness, the immediate family, relatives, friends, and believe it or not, the...

2 comments    health fibromyalgia illnesses
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