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Exercise for Mental Health: Reasons to Start and Reasons to Stop
Despite the fact that more than 86% of Americans believe exercising for fitness improves a person’s odds of a long and healthy life by “a lot,” only 28% report they actually get as much physical...
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Strategies for Healing the Psychological Impact of Medical Illness
In the preceding blog, we considered the importance of recognizing medical illness as psychological trauma. In this blog we report on an interview with Michele Rosenthal, author of the trauma recovery...
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Important Validation for the Aftermath of Adult Trauma
Many people face a traumatic event in adult life. Be it a serious car accident, combat, rape, a natural disaster or the loss of a child, people are often confronted with a horrific event that threatens...
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Re-Connect With an Ex? Crucial Considerations
Recycling is a good idea, except when it comes to relationships. Regardless of what people tell themselves about the time invested, the good times missed, the great sex, or the feeling that things will...
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Does Hope Really Make a Difference? Scientific Findings
Almost everyone has some experience with hope: We hope for the best. We hang on to hope. We despair when we lose hope. It would seem that hope, which is broadly defined as an emotional state that...
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Recognizing and Understanding Depression After Trauma
Disaster and trauma studies often focus on identifying the incidence of PTSD as the sequel to traumatic events. Early interventions with those affected after a disaster or traumatic event increasingly...
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Gardening’s Unique Potential for Healing Trauma
There is a good chance that you either are a gardener, you live with one or you know one. As such, you know that whether you are tending to potted geraniums on the deck, prizing the tomatoes in your...
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Could My Child Be Depressed? Important Answers
While we often associate depression with the teen years, the recognition and treatment of depression in children is more easily overlooked. She’s a kid—she’ll grow out of it. He’s just moody–don’t make...
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Preventing Teen Suicide:The Importance of Information and Connection
It is difficult to look too closely at what baffles and terrifies us— teen suicide is one of those realities. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. for young people between the ages...
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Holiday Shopping or Compulsive Shopping? A Painful Difference
The Holidays bring with them the joy of giving and the need to shop for the right gift for the right person. For the some 18 million compulsive shoppers, however, the holiday is but one more trigger to...
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