This article talks about the harsh reality of people committing suicide. The article discusses how suicide is viewed as an easy way out of problems and emotional distress. Several paragraphs are devoted to the discussion of how group therapy and counseling can bring back depressed people who are on the brink of suicide to a healthier, more positive state of mind.
Physician Assisted Suicide and The Art of Care
In an age of managed care, rationing of care, and technological care, there is The Art of Care. We live in a society that has been given various choices to self-determine ones destiny in dying as one has been able to self-determine ones destiny in life itself.
Lost Lives Through Weight Loss
Recent study reveals a startling connection between suicide and a popular weight loss operation known as bariatric surgery. There is a great possibility that depressive symptoms may worsen in patients who have unrealistic expectations about the results of surgery, or who struggle not to regain weight after the procedure.
Mental Health: Knowing When To Get Help
Mental health is how we think, feel and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Learn when to get help if your mental health is at risk.
Holiday Blues Are Just Around The Bend
While it is a time for gift-giving and merry-making, it can also be a source of stress and depression. Keeping humor up and having realistic expectations help a great deal in being in tune with the holiday spirit. Setting realistic goals for the holidays and keeping your expectations simple for yourself and everyone else is the key to avoid stress and anxiety brought about by the occasion.
From the Couch to the Deathbed
The article is about the stress and anxiety that is experienced by patients under emotional distress and how even their own counselors or psychiatrists share these difficulties. The article centers on Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, as an example of how psychiatrists themselves can suffer from emotional and psychological strain that is so severe that it can even lead them to acts of suicide.
Fathers Dealing with Postpartum Depression
This article relates the significance of new mothers that deals with postpartum depression. New research studies have shown that fathers can also get depressed after the baby is born. Certain factors contribute to fathers getting postpartum depression, and how this study aims to provide help for those new parents that get depressed.
Believe It, You Are What You Eat!
While the old adage that says, you are what you eat may be a bit exaggerated, the food, water, and other substances we consume can have profound effects on physical, mental, and emotional wellness or illness. Evidence continues to mount up suggesting that the food we eat have powerful effects not only physically, but psychologically as well.
Broken Homes, Broken Children
According to a research, the top five reasons why people got married are; to signify a life-long commitment, to make a public commitment, for legal status or for financial security, because of religious beliefs, and security for children. However, when parents get divorced, the children’s security and well being is seriously at risk.
The Mental Disorder Known As Schizophrenia
A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it can also contribute to chronic problems with behavior and emotion. Due to the many possible combinations of symptoms, there is ongoing and heated debate about whether the diagnosis necessarily or adequately describes a disorder, or alternativ…
Suicide is Not an Option
We never know who it is in our destiny to meet and interact with over a lifetime. All of those ‘plays’ of life will never be able to exist because one of the characters on the stage will not be there to fulfill his role.
Will your child die of Bullycide?
What bullies do
Calling another names, putting them down
Cruelty: excluding the child, and recruiting others to do the same
Taunting and constantly teasing
Ignoring the person, diminishing their importance
Threatening behavior, and singly or group intimidation
Damaging another’s belongings, with no chagrin
Taking their books, hat, other items that belong to another
Making another do silly, embarassing things to be “included”
Physical harm: hitting, pulling hair, tripping another