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Five creative writing tips to help manage anxiety
Poet and artist Blake Auden shares tips on how to use writing to manage your mental health I have suffered from anxiety most of my adult life and I’ve tried a range of therapies, techniques and approaches to managing my mental health – but nothing has quite helped me in the way that writing has. There are numerous studies that highlight the benefits of writing when it comes to trauma, anxiety, and overall mental wellbeing – as it allows people happi
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As American Independence Rang, a Sweeping Lockdown and Mass Inoculations Fought off a Smallpox Outbreak
By Woody Holton, University of South Carolina Many Americans of the founding era denounced government tyranny, celebrated the Declaration of Independence – and favored lockdowns and mass inoculations to combat a viciously contagious disease. Unchecked, smallpox kills more than one in 10 of its victims, leaving many of the rest blind, disfigured and sometimes sterile. Many historians say the reason George Washington never had children was his near-fatal bout of smallpox in 1751. The summer of 1776 was a time Healthy
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How to look after yourself when caring for someone else
It can be easy to neglect your own needs when you’re focused on caring for another, but here are five tips that could help Receiving and living with a physical or mental health diagnosis can be a massive challenge. Not just for the person with the diagnosis, but for those closest to them, too. Often, a diagnosis is accompanied by complications that affect whole families – additional health conditions, responsibilities, finances, or navigating clinic appointments, and benefit systems. As a happi
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Hypertension Forced Me to Have My Baby Preterm. There Were No Warning Signs.
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector As a maternal fetal medicine nurse, I’m used to running around from one patient to the next. But on that day in December 2012, the floor was unusually quiet. So I figured, « What the heck? May as well go have my fetal stress test done. » Just shy of 36 weeks pregnant, I had another eight days to go before my pregnancy would be full-term. I expected my blood pressure reading to be normal because Healthy
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Poor mental health is UK’s most common medical complaint
Ahead of physical illnesses, research finds that mental health problems are now the UK’s most common medical complaint One in four people will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime – and, now, according to new research from not-for-profit healthcare provider Beneden Health, poor mental health has become the most common medical complaint for adults in the UK. Broken down into age brackets, and assessing the rates of mental health problems in the past two years, it was discovered happi
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I Never Smoked and Got Lung Cancer
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector It started with a cough and shortness of breath. This was in May of 2020, and my biggest fear was that I had Covid. So when the Covid test came back negative, I was overcome with relief. But my upper respiratory symptoms persisted. I was spending a lot of time outdoors with my husband and our kids since there was so little we could safely do inside during lockdown. Maybe I was just having Healthy
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Conversations with your daughter: Unlocking the power of self-esteem
In our modern world, we want to raise girls to feel they can go out into the world with their best foot forward. To do that, we need to raise our girls to believe in themselves It may sound cheesy, but self-belief and self-esteem are crucial to raising girls to go out into the world feeling confident and resilient for what lies ahead of them. And while raising girls with high self-esteem despite their being surrounded by digitally altered images happi
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Bullying in the LGBTQIA+ Community
Bullying is rampant these days. We live in an age of social media where constant scrutiny and the ability to taunt and hurt others on a very visible level is mainstream and easy to do. Bullying is something anyone can be affected by. The LGBTQIA+ community is no exception. This group of people experiences bullying and harassment more than other groups do. In fact, this group is almost 2 times more likely to be verbally harassed, called names, or physically talk
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How to manage teeth grinding
The pain of teeth grinding is something many people struggle with, and yet lots don’t even realise they’re doing it – though they certainly feel it. Here, we get to the root of bruxism, and how to stop it leaving you ground down A few years ago I was eating a Twix, when one of my teeth completely disintegrated. I was upset and embarrassed. I didn’t understand how I had gone from never having a filling, to bits of broken happi
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Anxiety in Teens: Disorders, Symptoms, and Treatment
Anxiety in teens is becoming increasingly common. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it’s estimated that close to 32% of teens aged 13-18 will have an anxiety disorder. It may be a difficult topic to discuss, but avoiding the topic won’t make it go away. Helping teens with anxiety understand how to manage their stress can teach them to navigate things they’ll likely face throughout adolescence, and even into adulthood. It’s important to also understand the differences between talk
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Anxiety vs. Depression: What’s the Difference?
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health conditions we see. And though they’re frequently confused, they’re actually different classes of disorders. Some of the confusion stems from an overlap in symptoms and in the fact that they often co-occur. But despite sharing some symptoms, there is a significant difference between anxiety and depression in the actual definition of each condition. On a high level, anxiety involves excessive worrying or stress about the outcome of a situation. talk