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Severe Depression Rises While The Economy Falls

With the worst financial crisis in decades in full swing, mental health professionals across the country are seeing a rise in major – or severe – depression.
Eight-two percent of those surveyed in a poll by the American Psychological Association noted they were stressed by financial issues related to the economy. The survey percentage is [...]

How to Cope with Depression During Mother’s Day

While Mother’s Day isn’t perceived as one of the holidays that causes people stress and depression, some people do experience intense sadness.
Mother’s Day can make someone extremely sad if she lost a child or has a sour relationship with one. As everyone else is enjoying time with her families, a mother who has a lot [...]

Why Sleep Helps with Stress Management

If you’re feel especially stressed lately, lack of sleep may be the cause. When you feel overwhelmed, it’s because your body has been at an altered state of stress and then when you’re confronted with more you become overloaded. When you sleep at night, your body repairs itself. It brings stress [...]

Stress Management: Cutting Stress with Goal Setting

Everyone deals with stress but some people are able to handle it better than others. While everyone has their own way of dealing with it, there are certain strategies that most “stress-free” individuals utilize – goal setting.
What Is Goal Setting
If you’re a goal oriented person, you like to give yourself some sort of objective and [...]

Weight Loss: Dieting Can Cause Disease

Just when you thought dieting and exercising was going to help prevent disease, a study is showing that it can actually cause you to develop one. We can’t win here, can we?
The Study on Diet and Disease
According to a study reported on dailymail.co.uk, individuals who dieted by counting calories produced more of the stress hormone [...]

Childhood Cancer: Kids Fighting Against Cancer

The mind-body connection is strong. Training your mind to manage extreme pain (physical and emotional) is possible. Stress management techniques can help you decrease stress, whether it’s from physical or emotional pain.
In the following video, you will see child cancer patients show you how strong they really are in their fight against cancer. They are [...]

Men’s Health: Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease

Many men are embarrassed to admit that they have erectile dysfunction. They may chock it up to stress and turn to their doctor just for a prescription of Viagra. While this may help a man’s erectile dysfunction, it may only be masking a more serious and/or deadly condition.
Erectile Dysfunction Linked to Cardiovascular Disease
Think about [...]

Laugh at April Fool’s Day Jokes to Improve Your Health

It’s April Fool’s Day! It’s time to take a minute to be healthy by laughing. Yes, that’s right. You can improve your health significantly but just cracking a chuckle.
How Laughter Improves Your Health

When you laugh you reduce stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine, and dopamine, which all increase when you are under high levels of [...]

Indentifying Depression: Are You Just Sad or Are you Depressed?

When life gets difficult, it may be hard to determine whether you’re sad or have a bigger problem, depression. Feeling sad is a key component in depression but it’s not the only one. You’ll need to consider many other factors when trying to determine if you are depressed.
The Symptoms of Depression
If you’ve experience any of [...]

Eat Your Easter Candy for Stroke Protection

According to a review of studies in the medical journal of Neurology, eating chocolate may reduce your risk of stroke and help you survive one if you do have one. The antioxidants in chocolate are believed to help stroke especially those in dark chocolate. However, you receive some in regular chocolate too so it’s still [...]