Swimming great Ian Thorpe has revealed he has battled mental health issues since his teenage years as he opened up about his struggle with depression.
Date Posted: February 19, 2016
Categories: Depression
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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are a group of highly inheritable behavioural disorders that pose major personal and public health concerns. Patients with ASDs have mild to severe communication difficulties, repetitive behaviour and social ...
Feb 18
Categories: Asperger's Syndrome, Autism spectrum disorders
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When a person full of negative energy enters a room occupied by an empath (highly sensitive person), the empath picks up on those feelings right away. The empath loses their grip on how they previously felt, giving it all up to understand and maybe ...
Feb 17
Categories: Positive Psychology
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We all know people who complain about everything, never see the good in anything, and think that sharing any sort of happiness will “jinx” whatever it is they secretly want. We also know that misery loves company. Therefore if you’re looking ...
Feb 17
Categories: Positive Psychology
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Always check your assumptions, be curious, suspend judgment and know when you’ve had enough.
Feb 16
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Do you know someone who always agrees, no matter what they really think?
Feb 16
Categories: Health Psychology
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Phobias and anxieties are best dealt with by facing them. It is not easy, but if done step-by-step most people can learn to deal with anxieties and fears, possibly even overcome them.
Feb 15
Categories: Anxiety, Fear
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Valentine’s Day is not always a candy coated day of love and romance. For many who've lost a loved one, suffered a break up or are on the brink of separation or divorce, this day is anything but sweet.
Feb 13
Categories: Other
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Poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size 20 years later, according to a study published in the February 10, 2016, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Feb 12
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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The old advice to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, may have roots in more than simply how others perceive you - many studies show that the clothes you wear can affect your mental and physical performance. Although such findings ...
Feb 12
Categories: Self-Confidence
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A lot of has been written about how focusing too much on materialistic ambitions, at the expense of relationships and experiences, can leave us miserable and unfulfilled. In a new paper published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, a ...
Feb 11
Categories: Happiness
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Since 2010, more than 613,000 people have pledged to combat bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens as part of the "It Gets Better" campaign. And a new Northwestern Medicine study has found that most adolescents would agree ...
Feb 10
Categories: Child Development, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) ...
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Labels matter a great deal to people with mental illness. People show less tolerance to those referred to as 'the mentally ill'. The better terminology to use is "people with mental illness". The emphasis, then, is on the word 'people' rather than ...
Feb 6
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We are aware that therapy isn’t discussed very much in our culture, and the media often portrays it in a condescending and useless manner. So why send your teen to counselling, and what are the benefits?
Feb 5
Categories: Health Psychology
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