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Excess Deaths Among Those With Mental Health Conditions And Intellectual Disabilities Rises During COVID-19
Excess deaths among those with mental health conditions and intellectual disabilities has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. A UK study of more than 160 thousand patients found that deaths from COVID-19 among people with learning disabilities were nine times higher than among the general population during the first UK lockdown and were five times higher among those with eating disorders. “Prior to the pandemic we knew that people with severe mental illnesses and with intellectual disabilities were at an increased theravive
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All snuggled up: Why do 1 in 10 adults sleep with their childhood teddies?
New survey results reveal one in five adults still own their childhood teddies, while 9% of us choose to sleep with a soft toy at night Cuddly toys and security blankets are just two of the most common comfort objects (also known as loveys) many of us have as children. Snuggling up with a stuffed animal or wrapping up with a security blanket can provide comfort when feeling overwhelmed or may help to soothe you when feeling anxious. These transitional happi
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Guide Me: How To Set Digital Boundaries For Yourself
There is no denying we are all a little dependent on our smartphones! Interestingly, the relationship with our social media is a love/hate one. Especially, in current times when most of us rely on our digital devices, it is important to maintain a healthy relationship with our time spent digitally, with our digital devices. The best way to make it work is, setting digital boundaries. To help you with the same we are sharing some effective ways to set digital calmsage
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How to help a loved one with body dysmorphic disorder
Seeing someone we care for be consumed by perceived ‘flaws’ can be extremely difficult – especially at a time when re-entering society has us all feeling under more intense scrutiny. But if you are at a loss for what to do, the good news is there are ways you can support a friend or family member experiencing BDD Between countless hours on Zoom staring at our own faces, and the mounting pressure to return to the social world with a happi
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A Mammogram Saved My Life
October 15 is National Mammography Day. As told to Jackie Froeber The mammogram stars aligned for me in 2017. I was working at St. Peter’s Health Partners and popped into a co-worker’s office to say hi. On her desk was a flier advertising free mammograms over the weekend for employees. I had just turned 40 two months earlier, and since I didn’t have any plans that weekend, I signed up. Although my grandmother had breast cancer, I wasn’t worried or Healthy
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Can Trigger Point Injections Treat Your Pain?
Keep waking up with that painful knot in your back? You may be among the millions of people who experience ongoing pain from trigger points, or tight knots deep in the muscle tissue. According to an article published in Practical Pain Management, trigger points may affect as many as 44 million people in the United States alone, although some researchers believe the true number is even higher. That’s because trigger points often cause pain in unrelated parts of the body, best
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Pediatric Crisis Stabilization Unit Planned In Tennessee
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn. and mental health services provider The McNabb Center (Knoxville) are planning a pediatric crisis stabilization unit in Knoxville, according to an article in wate.com. The unit, which will provide behavioral health treatment, therapy, and medication management, is slated to open in early 2022. healthcare
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Understanding Relationships Better: Can Setting Boundaries Reduce Stress
We all want to live a peaceful life without much stress in life. Something we dig our own graves. We do not pay much attention to our limitations and boundaries. That is exactly how we invite stress in our lives. Setting boundaries can be used as a stress management technique. Before you can do that you need to first understand what boundaries you need to set. Where are you lacking in terms of boundaries, that you are experiencing so much calmsage
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Texas A&M Health Hub Opens
Texas A&M Health Science Center in Bryan, Texas, has opened the Texas A&M Health Hub, according to an article in kagstv.com. The three story, 33,000-square-foot facility includes 35 exam rooms, three procedure suites, and eight telebehavorial booths on the third floor. The health hub provides family care, psychiatry, telebehavorial, urgent care, women’s health, and pharmacy medication management services. healthcare
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The uncertainty experts: helping us embrace the unknown
A new interactive online documentary pairs science and storytelling to help us improve resilience, creativity and productivity How do you feel about stepping into the unknown? After the last couple of years, you would have thought we’d be comfortable with uncertainty. But the truth is, many of us aren’t. As someone with anxiety and a history of an eating disorder, routine and the ‘known’ are very much my happy places. And while I have gotten better at dealing with uncertainty happi
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Common micro stressors and how to tackle them
Spot the micro stressors in your life and take steps to soothe them Stress is something that all of us experience – it can come and go, or affect us over long periods of time. This stress can come from a number of different places, and we can often trace them back to big events in our lives. But something you may not be so aware of is the way that micro stressors affect our wellbeing. So, what are micro happi
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Can Anxiety Make You Nauseous? Exploring The Reasons, Causes & More
Have you ever worried so much about something that you started to feel physically sick? Well, there’s a reason behind that. Anxiety is not only an emotional reaction to stress and worry but it can also cause physical responses such as nausea and vomiting. Nausea is a sign of anxiety and involves an easy feeling of being sick in your stomach. Nausea that anxiety causes can interfere with your ability to perform daily tasks. Similar to other mental and physical calmsage