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Facts about PTSD

PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a psychiatric problem that affects people who have survived deeply disturbing or traumatic events. Some of the most common symptoms of PTSD include: Flashbacks,...

37 comments    treatment ptsd trauma
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Is Gardening Really A Key To A Long And Healthy Life?

In 2006, the islands of Okinawa, Japan, were estimated to have nearly 740 centenarians (a person has reached 100 years or over) out of a population of 1.3 million. According to the Okinawa Centenarian...

8 comments    health exercise gardening
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Nourish Your Brain

As we age our bodily functions deteriorate. We might not be as flexible as we have been in our forties or fifties. Our brain is aging, as well. And while wisdom is generally attributed to old age, it is old...

2 comments    nutrition mental health brain
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Beating the Fear of Recurrent Cancer

Something happens when you hear the doctor diagnose the dreaded "C" word. No longer are you able to go back to believing it won't happen to you. After you survive all the surgery, radiation and chemotherapy...

4 comments    cancer mental health fear
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Mental illness, truth and politics

When I was 23 years old I was granted a disability pension on the basis of psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia.  I was diagnosed as such at 19 years old.  Why?  And, how is that I now live without...

13 comments    politics religion literature
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Yes, Virginia, There Is Something Called Clinical Depression

Just recently I was part of an online discussion about whether or not depression is a real medical disorder as opposed to simply being “a wrong mindset”. Having suffered from clinical depression for 20+...

6 comments    depression mental health therapy
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Students Know Rights Not Responsibilities

What are the responsibilities of being a good student? Ask most pupils that as an examination question and they wouldn’t make the grade. What are the rights of a student? Put that as the compulsory...

5 comments    peer pressure teaching methods
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MindFlex Mental Acuity Game

MindFlex Game CLICK HERE TO GET MINDFLEX TODAY AND SAVE 10% OFF THE REGULAR RETAIL PRICE The Matrix was one of the block buster hit movies where Neo was able to control objects with his mind.Could you...

2 comments    mindflex mindflex game
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Fabulous at Forty: One Month Weigh-in

Still a long way to go, but this feels better! They are "Stretch" jeans, but I'm not stretching them any more!  It has been a month since my thirty-ninth birthday, and my declaration to the world that I was...

0 comments    food mental health hope
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Life before asylum

This is off the cuff again, I have told this story many different ways, so many times. I'll breeze over the early bits, I could but I will not blame anyone else for what happened in my life so far as drugs...

4 comments    depression mental illness acid
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