Distress: Controlling Your Response
While stressful events in and of themselves are harmless, it’s our reactions to them that cause so many illnesses, both physical and mental. A number of harmful habits have been found to be reactio ...
Recognizing Your Hurtful Personality Type
The Charmer/Attacker
You can enter a room and find ways to entertain the guests even though you rather avoid crowds. People are attracted to your sense of humor and charm. You are the life o ...
Major Depressive Disorder
I am a person, a unique complex individual. My diagnosis does not define who I am. It only describes some of the things that I experience. Major depressive disorder is one way to describe how I feel ...
Inner Beauty
The Chamber of Deputies, France's lower house of parliament, recently adopted a bill making it illegal for anyone to "incite extreme thinness;" the latest and strongest of a series of measures propose ...
basics about meditation
to begin with what is the very purpose of meditation
why one shd meditate
how can one begin with the process
so so difficult it is to silence your thoughts , mind
actual difference be ...
Standing on Scale Daily Won't Cause Psychological Damage
According to a news brief on Runnersworld.com, several studies show that daily weigh-ins help people lose weight. But other argue that such a strict routine could lead to psychological problems. At ...
Living with chronic pain?
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Research is ongoing at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Centre for Pain Research - http://www.nuigalway.ie/cen ...
Readers share drastic attempts to lose weight
Oh, the things we'll do to lose a few pounds...
In response to an MSNBC.com story about a new over-the-counter diet pill with some icky side effects, readers shared the most extreme measures the ...
When to Suspect Lyme
The most useful diagnostic reference: the “Bible” of Lyme medical literature.
by John Bleiweiss, MD.
The When To Suspect Lyme Disease essay:
This essay, written by John D. Bleiweiss, ...