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Looking At Plenty Of Trees Reduces Stress and Depression
The activity increases liveliness and reduces stress, depression and aggression.
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How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol
From sloth to burnout, each age remakes exhaustion in its own image. By Hannah Rosefield.
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The way out of burnout
A psychoanalyst explains why for people feeling “burnt out”, simply trying to relax doesn’t always work. By Josh Cohen.
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Notes From My Suicide
A low point, a bottle, a cat, a gun. By Kenneth R. Rosen. (March, 2016)
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Magic mushrooms could help treat severe depression
Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms, improved the symptoms of depression in a small-scale trial. The trial, which was conducted on 12 people and has been published in The Lancet, found that the compound even worked on so called "treatment-resistant" depression. The research could provide the basis for radical new treatment for depression. "It is important that academic research groups try to develop possible new treatments for depression as the pharmaceutical industry is pulling out of this field," said David Nutt, senior author of the research. "Our study has shown psilocybin is safe and fast acting so may...
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The Magpie That Saved a Family
After a fall left Sam Bloom paralysed and depressed, help came from an unexpected source – a magpie chick which had fallen from its nest.
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Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart
Epidemics of mental illness are crushing the minds and bodies of millions. It’s time to ask where we are heading and why. By George Monbiot.
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Quick Fix — Real Life
WikiHow is an ever-evolving collection of coping mechanisms. By Naomi Skwarna.
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Depression in Young People Affects the Stomach, Anxiety the Skin
Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are more common after depression, while anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases.
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Artist Creates Death-Inspired Comics To Fight Her Depression
Haenuli is a fashion designer from South Korea who has been battling depression by drawing a friendly relationship between a girl and death in the form of a skeleton. “Even dark things give comfort.”
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The David Foster Wallace Disease
It’s funny, knowing that, if I were living in one of my favourite minds, I might want to turn it off. By Sasha Chapin.
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HOW TO HELP SOMEONE WITH A DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM
Drug abuse has become one of the most pressing issues of societies all over the world. Given that drug addiction has created a lot of negative effects, governments are becoming more and more aggressive in looking for strategies that can curb it especially among the youth. Communities are being made aware of the effects of.....
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Seniors Are Fighting Aliens in a Video Game to Deal With Depression
Video Games could be a powerful treatment for depression in the future. Elderly Californians are battling aliens and exploring foreign worlds to help researchers understand whether an iPad game could help combat depression in seniors. Depression in the elderly is a common occurrence. As they age, seniors become particularly vulnerable due to prolonged social isolation, the loss of a partner, or management of a chronic illness.
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Saving Chickens, Saving Myself
The author on depression, her relationship with her aunt, and the importance of being seen. By Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
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Brain Architecture Alters to Compensate for Depression
A study has found structural differences in the cerebral cortex of patients with depression and that these differences normalize with appropriate medication. The stud is the first to report within the context of a randomized, controlled trial, the presence of structural changes in the cerebral cortex during medication treatment for depression and the first to provide in vivo evidence for the presence of anatomical neuroplasticity in human brain.
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Yes, Your Sleep Schedule is Making You Sick
What jet lag, insomnia and mental illness have in common.
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I Thought I Was Depressed But It Turns Out I’m Bipolar
And not the kind you’re thinking of. By Christina Stiehl.
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Polish Artist Illustrates His Fight With Depression In These Dark And Mysterious Paintings
Depression is not an easy thing to deal with, but sometimes you can take your weakness and turn it into something beautiful. By Andrius.
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‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use
Sarah never planned to take antidepressants for 14 years. Three years after she began taking them, when she was 21, she went to her GP and asked to stop: 20mg of Seroxat a day had helped her live with anxiety and panic attacks, but she began to feel uncomfortable about being on medication all the time. Her doctor advised her to taper down her medication carefully.
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Sleep problems, anxiety and depression — it goes both ways
For many people, treating sleep problems before treating symptoms of anxiety and depression is less stigmatising and might encourage people to seek further help.
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