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How to Maximize the Benefits of Therapy
Read More: How to Maximize the Benefits of TherapyGetting therapy for the first time may feel daunting. Because youโre talking to someone you barely know, opening up to a therapist and talking about your problems can be difficult. You may feel some uneasiness since it is a new experience, but it shouldnโt hinder you from getting the most out of therapy. Aside from…
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Closing The Mental Health Gap for Women of Color
Read More: Closing The Mental Health Gap for Women of ColorFrancisca Porchas Coronado was just nine when she left her home in the Mexican state of Sonora, just south of the border with Arizona, to migrate to the United States. The memories of traveling through the desert and resettling in a new country still linger even though she’s lived in the United States for more…
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Naomi Osakaโs Withdrawal From the French Open Highlights How Prioritizing Mental Wellness Goes Against the Rules, on the Court and Off
Read More: Naomi Osakaโs Withdrawal From the French Open Highlights How Prioritizing Mental Wellness Goes Against the Rules, on the Court and OffBy Dorothy Chin, University of California, Los Angeles and Tamra Burns Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she would withdraw from the French Open after she was fined and threatened with being disqualified for not speaking to media during the tournament to protect her mental health. French Open…
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The Unexpected Key to Healthy Aging: Mitochondria
Read More: The Unexpected Key to Healthy Aging: MitochondriaHealthy aging extends beyond being healthy at a certain age but rather maintaining overall wellbeing throughout an entire lifetime. The reality is healthy aging is essential to enjoying a higher quality of life throughout the years. Consequently, the concept of healthy aging has become a top priority for many as they grow older. Instead of…
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Weight Stigma Is a Burden Around the World โ and Has Negative Consequences Everywhere
Read More: Weight Stigma Is a Burden Around the World โ and Has Negative Consequences EverywhereBy Rebecca Puhl, University of Connecticut Lazy. Unmotivated. No self-discipline. No willpower. These are just a few of the widespread stereotypes ingrained in American society about people who have a higher body weight or larger body size. Known as weight stigma, these attitudes result in many Americans being blamed, teased, bullied, mistreated and discriminated against.…
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Marital Rape Is Still Legal
Read More: Marital Rape Is Still LegalIn the summer of 2017, Jenny Teeson made a horrifying discovery. Teeson, who had begun divorce proceedings from her husband of 12 years in Minnesota, was looking through files from their shared laptop when she discovered photos and videos of her husband raping her while she was unconscious. Teeson’s husband had been drugging her with…
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How to โBuild Back Betterโ Health Habits After the Pandemic Year
Read More: How to โBuild Back Betterโ Health Habits After the Pandemic YearBy Claudia Finkelstein, Michigan State University The U.S. is in far different shape today than it was last Memorial Day, and many Americans are, too. According to a recent survey by the American Psychological Association, undesired changes in weight driven by pandemic stress are widespread: 42% of adults reported gaining weight, with a median weight…
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Anxiety, Depression, Gender, Gender diversity, Lgbtq, mental health, Parenting, Self-Care, Stress, Transgender
The Other Side of the Rainbow
Read More: The Other Side of the RainbowAs told to Chandra Whitfield June is Pride Month. Even at a young age, I knew I was different. While the other boys loved to be rough and tumble, crashing their toy trucks and cars and playing sports, I longed to wear frilly dresses and I created fashion shows with my G.I. Joe dolls. It…
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5 Ways Fitness Benefits Your Mental Health
Read More: 5 Ways Fitness Benefits Your Mental HealthThe benefits of prioritizing fitness go well beyond a six-pack โ although thatโs a great bonus! Healthy lifestyle habits such as eating well and regular exercise can impact your mental health and emotional well-being, too. You probably already know that exercise affects the way you feel. After all, the entire reason many fitness fanatics committed…
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Exercise Can Help Stress, But Getting Started Can Be Tough
Read More: Exercise Can Help Stress, But Getting Started Can Be ToughExercise can be a great outlet to help relieve stress and improve mental health, and thatโs one of the reasons why so many people stay consistent in their routines. In the gym, youโll hear things like, โIโd go crazy if I didnโt liftโ or โFitness changed my life.โ But staying on top of your workout…
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No-Cancel Culture: How Telehealth Is Making It Easier to Keep That Therapy Session
Read More: No-Cancel Culture: How Telehealth Is Making It Easier to Keep That Therapy SessionBy Eric Berger, Kaiser Health News When the covid-19 pandemic forced behavioral health providers to stop seeing patients in person and instead hold therapy sessions remotely, the switch produced an unintended, positive consequence: Fewer patients skipped appointments. This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free. That had long been a…
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My Parents Dismissed My Anxiety. Now Iโm Helping My Daughter Work Through Hers
Read More: My Parents Dismissed My Anxiety. Now Iโm Helping My Daughter Work Through HersAs told to Nicole Audrey Spector May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I can’t remember a time during my childhood when I didn’t feel worried. Even in first grade, there was always this sense of unease in my stomach, a tangled knot of dread. My mind was constantly churning out terrifying “what ifs.” What if…
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Seed Money: Black Entrepreneurs Hope Pandemic Gardening Boom Will Grow Healthier Eating
Read More: Seed Money: Black Entrepreneurs Hope Pandemic Gardening Boom Will Grow Healthier EatingBy Chandra Thomas Whitfield, Kaiser Health News DENVER โ Ietef Vita had planned to spend most of 2020 on the road, promoting โBiomimicz,” the album the rapper had released on his #plantbasedrecords label in January. Vita, known to his fans as โDJ Cavem Moetavation” and โChef Ietef,” had those plans unexpectedly cut short. This story…
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Pregnant Womenโs Brains Show Troubling Signs of Stress โ but Feeling Strong Social Support Can Break Those Patterns
Read More: Pregnant Womenโs Brains Show Troubling Signs of Stress โ but Feeling Strong Social Support Can Break Those PatternsBy Rebecca Brooker, Texas A&M University and Tristin Nyman, Texas A&M University Even before the pandemic, there was plenty for expectant mothers to worry about. Pregnant women must withstand a barrage of arguably well-intentioned, but often hyperbolic, warnings about their health and what’s to come, including concerns about everything from what to eat, to what…
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Domestic Violence Isnโt About Just Physical Violence โ and State Laws Are Beginning to Recognize That
Read More: Domestic Violence Isnโt About Just Physical Violence โ and State Laws Are Beginning to Recognize ThatThe Conversation By Lisa Aronson Fontes, University of Massachusetts Amherst Three or more U.S. women are murdered every day by their current or former intimate partner. That may in part be due to a failure of state laws to capture the full range of behavior that constitutes domestic abuse. The law continues to treat intimate…
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Treating Covid-19 Patients in the ICU Nearly Broke Me, But Now Iโm Stronger for It
Read More: Treating Covid-19 Patients in the ICU Nearly Broke Me, But Now Iโm Stronger for ItAs told to Nicole Audrey Spector May 12 is International Nurses Day. Imagine a sudden hailstorm โ the kind that forces you to duck for cover under a canopy or whisk away into a cab. Only in this scenario, there is no canopy, no cab. There is not even an umbrella or a raincoat. It’s…
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Popping Toys, the Latest Fidget Craze, Might Reduce Stress for Adults and Children Alike
Read More: Popping Toys, the Latest Fidget Craze, Might Reduce Stress for Adults and Children AlikeBy Katherine Isbister, University of California, Santa Cruz The newest fidget craze is popping toys. Adults and kids all over the world have been buying up this endlessly reusable version of a longtime favorite fidget activity: popping bubble wrap. Made of silicone and coming in a range of colors, shapes and sizes, they are half-sphere…
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What Causes Miscarriages? An Expert Explains Why Women Shouldnโt Blame Themselves
Read More: What Causes Miscarriages? An Expert Explains Why Women Shouldnโt Blame ThemselvesBy Rochanda Mitchell, University of Virginia Mother’s Day is a happy day for millions, but for those who have experienced a miscarriage, the day can be devastating. As many as one in four recognized pregnancies result in miscarriage. Pregnancy loss can be mentally and physically taxing. Women often have feelings of sadness, anger, isolation and…
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Family Meals Are Good for the Grown-Ups, Too, Not Just the Kids
Read More: Family Meals Are Good for the Grown-Ups, Too, Not Just the KidsBy Anne Fishel, Harvard University For all the parents feeling exhausted by the cooking, cleaning and planning of a million meals during the pandemic, there’s some good news. Commensality, or the sharing of food with others, is beneficial for your physical and mental health. Most parents already know that family mealtimes are great for the…
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Self-Care Is Important At Every Age
Read More: Self-Care Is Important At Every AgeTo kick off Women’s Health Month, we’re exploring the importance of self-care for women of all ages. Join HealthyWomen’s CEO Beth Battaglino and Patricia Geraghty, medical director of Women’s Health, Comprehensive Wellness for a Q&A on all things self-care on Instagram Live, Wednesday May 5 from 11:30-11:45 a.m EDT. For your best friend, it might…
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What Are the Biggest Differences Between Eating Disorders?
Read More: What Are the Biggest Differences Between Eating Disorders?Mental health issues are far more common than many people think. There are numerous types of mental health issues out there. For example, some people suffer from depression. Other people may suffer from anxiety. There are even people who suffer from things such as bipolar disorder. One of the mental health disorders that are commonly…
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10 Ways to Quell Emotional Eating
Read More: 10 Ways to Quell Emotional EatingEmotions getting the best of you? If youโre relying on food to cope with uncomfortable emotions or even happiness and excitement, you can officially call yourself an emotional eater. Truth is, everybody fits this description because everybody does it at some point. โEmotional eating is natural because eating is emotional,โ says Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD,…
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Hospitals Are Allowing Medical Students to Perform Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women โ Without Their Consent
Read More: Hospitals Are Allowing Medical Students to Perform Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women โ Without Their ConsentApril is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. When patients go to the hospital, they expect to receive medical attention โ not to be subjected to nonconsensual examinations. In 2007, Ashley Weitz, a 37-year-old mother in Utah, went to the emergency room seeking treatment for nausea and vomiting. Weitz was sedated with promethazine to stop the vomiting.…
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10 Reasons to Start Doing Yoga
Read More: 10 Reasons to Start Doing YogaIf youโve thought about taking up yoga, thereโs never been a better time than now to hit that mat. Not only does yoga do body and spirit good (and given how stressful the past year has been, thatโs welcome news), but itโs also never been easier to find online classes. Feeling a little intimidated about…
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Can a Blood Test Diagnose Depression?
Read More: Can a Blood Test Diagnose Depression?More than 264 million people suffer from depression globally, and many never receive treatment. For those who have access to mental health care, treating depression and mood disorders can often feel like a guessing game with doctors and patients cycling through different medications in hopes of finding what works. “Mental health is not like other…
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Domestic Violence Calls for Help Increased During the Pandemic โ but the Answers Havenโt Gotten Any Easier
Read More: Domestic Violence Calls for Help Increased During the Pandemic โ but the Answers Havenโt Gotten Any EasierBy Tara N. Richards, University of Nebraska Omaha and Justin Nix, University of Nebraska Omaha Domestic violence rose globally in 2020 โ so much so that doctors have called it โa pandemic within a pandemic.” The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice, a team of national experts tasked with assessing the impact of COVID-19…
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At What Age Are People Usually Happiest? New Research Offers Surprising Clues
Read More: At What Age Are People Usually Happiest? New Research Offers Surprising CluesBy Clare Mehta, Emmanuel College If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it be? Would you choose to be nine years old, absolved of life’s most tedious responsibilities, and instead able to spend your days playing with friends and practicing your times tables? Or would you choose your…
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Planning on Walking Outside This Spring?
Read More: Planning on Walking Outside This Spring?Walking outside is an amazing form of exercise. Completely different from walking on a treadmill inside, walking outside provides both physical and mental health benefits. Not only does it raise our heart rate, but it also gets us in the sunlight and engages our brains. It has a powerful effect on many chronic conditions and…
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Hereโs How to Help Your Kids Break out of Their Pandemic Bubble and Transition Back to Being With Others
Read More: Hereโs How to Help Your Kids Break out of Their Pandemic Bubble and Transition Back to Being With OthersBy Dominique A. Phillips, University of Miami and Jill Ehrenreich-May, University of Miami Pilar’s parents took all the recommended precautions to shield her from the dangers of COVID-19. They stayed at home, away from family, friends and group activities. Pilar had remained in virtual schooling throughout the pandemic as a first and then second grader.…
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Women Frequently Experience Sexual Harassment at Work, yet Few Claims Ever Reach a Courtroom
Read More: Women Frequently Experience Sexual Harassment at Work, yet Few Claims Ever Reach a CourtroomBy Joseph A. Seiner, University of South Carolina Sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including at least three from current or former aides, are a reminder of just how commonplace unwanted touching, propositioning and other inappropriate behavior is in the workplace. My recent research explores the prevalence of toxic work environments โ…
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Longer-Lasting Rotator Cuff Repair May be Possible for Women Over 50
Read More: Longer-Lasting Rotator Cuff Repair May be Possible for Women Over 50ย For sports fans, nothing beats seeing their favorite athletes compete at the top of their game. But a shoulder injury such as a badly torn rotator cuff threatens toย pause or end the career of any athlete in sports ranging from football, basketball, and baseball to golf and tennis. Tearing our rotator cuff is an incredibly…
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Service Dogs Can Help Veterans With PTSD โ Growing Evidence Shows They May Reduce Anxiety in Practical Ways
Read More: Service Dogs Can Help Veterans With PTSD โ Growing Evidence Shows They May Reduce Anxiety in Practical WaysBy Leanne Nieforth, Purdue University and Marguerite E. O’Haire, Purdue University As many as 1 in 5 of the roughly 2.7 million Americans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD, a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening traumatic event, is a complex…
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My Autism Diagnosis in My Late 30s Changed My Life for the Better
Read More: My Autism Diagnosis in My Late 30s Changed My Life for the BetterMarch 29 to April 4 is Autism Awareness Week. I woke up in the hospital in the middle of the night to the worst pain of my life. I felt my jugular vein in my neck pulsing, and I was crying uncontrollably. The doctors whisked me off for an emergency CT scan of my head…
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7 Fitness Training Tips that Women Over 50 Should Follow for Better Health
Read More: 7 Fitness Training Tips that Women Over 50 Should Follow for Better HealthCongratulations on your first step towards achieving better health and better shape. Life for women over 50 is not an easy period for achieving health goals. It is understandable that we are extremely anxious about all that life entails. Although we are over 50, we remain quite stressed out about our body image however, you…
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US Has a Long History of Violence Against Asian Women
Read More: US Has a Long History of Violence Against Asian WomenBy Karen Leong, Arizona State University and Karen Kuo, Arizona State University Asian American women understand that the alleged murderer of eight people in Atlanta was acting in keeping with a culture filled with racialized and sexualized views of Asian women. Of the people murdered, four women were of Korean descent and two of Chinese…
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Boxing is helping me rage out my grief after losing my pregnancy and my father
Read More: Boxing is helping me rage out my grief after losing my pregnancy and my fatherWhen I learned I was pregnant in mid-December, my husband, Patrick, and I were ecstatic. We’d been trying for a year and given my “geriatric” age of 37, had been wondering if something was wrong. Patrick, 42, had his semen tested. All clear! I had some blood tests to measure my hormone and thyroid levels…
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As Death Approaches, Our Dreams Offer Comfort, Reconciliation
Read More: As Death Approaches, Our Dreams Offer Comfort, ReconciliationBy Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo One of the most devastating elements of the coronavirus pandemic has been the inability to personally care for loved ones who have fallen ill. Again and again, grieving relatives have testified to how much more devastating their loved one’s death was because they were unable to hold their family…
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Love and Laughter
Read More: Love and LaughterWhether she’s hosting/executive producing “Little Women Unfiltered: Atlanta,” narrating “Bridezillas,” or guest judging “Ru Paul’s Drag Race,” comedian Loni Love lives to make people laugh. With the many dramatic events of the past year forever changing the way people live their lives, Love believes we’re at a point in history where comedians are needed more…
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The Exercise Pill: How Exercise Keeps Your Brain Healthy and Protects It Against Depression and Anxiety
Read More: The Exercise Pill: How Exercise Keeps Your Brain Healthy and Protects It Against Depression and AnxietyBy Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University As with many other physicians, recommending physical activity to patients was just a doctor chore for me โ until a few years ago. That was because I myself was not very active. Over the years, as I picked up boxing and became more active, I got firsthand experience of…
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Suffering in Silence: Middle-Aged Women and Eating Disorders
Read More: Suffering in Silence: Middle-Aged Women and Eating DisordersFebruary 22-28, 2021 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. When you think of eating disorders, you probably think of young, white, teenage girls. But women in midlife struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, too. In fact, 13% of women over 50 experience symptoms of an eating disorder. We…
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I Had An Eating Disorder for 20 Years Before I Knew Anything Was Wrong
Read More: I Had An Eating Disorder for 20 Years Before I Knew Anything Was WrongAs told to Alex Fulton February 22-28, 2021 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. My eating disorder started when I was 12. I was sitting in the kitchen eating some chips when my father came in and looked at me. “You’re getting chubby,” he said. Then he turned to my mom. “You need to watch…
