Mental health
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Taiwanese singer Elva Hsiao has been on an indefinite hiatus after her health deteriorated back last March. A year later, rumors of her making a comeback started circulating as she reemerged on social media. However, fans are now concerned for Elva’s mental state after she uploaded a slightly disturbing video on her Instagram page on July 18. Elva,…
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The NYPD was rocked Wednesday as Deputy Chief Steven Silks was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his police vehicle, not far from the precinct station where he worked. Less than 24 hours later, officers’ grief was amplified as the body of homicide detective Joseph Calabrese was found at Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach, reports…
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Can you “catch” a mental illness like anxiety and depression the same way you catch a cold? It’s something many people believe to be true, according to a recent study published in the journal Memory & Cognition. In the study, participants reported thinking that after a social interaction with someone who lives with anxiety disorder, alcohol abuse, anorexia, and…
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It is normal for people to worry about past, present or expected events in their lives. Anxiousness may be positive or negative, for example, you may feel jittery before facing a panel of interviewers, or before taking decisions about crucial matters in your job, relationship or business. Anxiety is simply an emotion categorized with acts…
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An attempt at suicide could cost you more than your life. An Oklahoma man shared an image to Twitter of his one-week, $US93,000 ($AUD 130,000) hospital bill after an attempt to take his own life. Oliver Jordan, 21, shared the bill this week and garnered more than 25,000 likes and hundreds of responses. Image:…
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Bonafide pop star, Ariana Grande, opened up about her mental health, by recently sharing a scanned image of her brain. The singer took to her Instagram and shared a scanned image highlighting the difference between a healthy brain, a brain dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the third image was a scan of…
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Damian Hinds, the education secretary at Leeds University, has set up a taskforce to support students as they start undergraduate courses in a bid to address mental health problems related to the transition. Members of the new taskforce – which will be known as the Education Transitions Network – will include leading sector groups such…
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Kelly is reportedly in a “mental downward spiral” after being back in jail for unpaid child support. The singer was taken into custody on Wednesday, March 6 and was transported back into Cook County Jail for owing more than $160,000 in child support to his ex-wife. With his financial issues in addition to his legal woes, Kelly…
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A woman has left many people in utter shock after she reportedly killed her three children before taking her own life. The alleged killer reportedly faked a doctors report and presented at her daughters’ school so they could get a day off, then she drove them into the woods and killed them before turning the…
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The Federal Ministry of Health says about 20 to 30 per cent of Nigerians suffer from mental illness. The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Abdulaziz Abdullahi, said this at the Mental Health Action Committee and Stakeholders’ Workshop in Abuja on Monday. Abdullahi said with a population of about 200 million, Nigeria had a high…
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Workplace stress is exacting an ever-higher physical and psychological toll on workers and it adversely affects productivity, drives up voluntary turnover as well costs US employers nearly $200 billion every year in healthcare costs. Many companies are aware of these negative effects, and some have gotten busy devising ways to counteract them. Efforts range from…
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Serena Williams has advised women to consider talking to someone – a close friend or relative, if they feel threatened by postpartum disorders. The world-class tennis star gave birth to her first daughter last September but apparently suffered mental health issues ahead of her recent 6-1 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in their first round…
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Learning could be harder as one grows older but Gabriel Wyner, an opera singer and author of Fluent Forever, says the best way to learn and retain anything in our memories is to challenge ourselves at remembering it instead of reading and re-reading, for example, a list of vocabulary words. You should read just…
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The World Health Organization reports that over 82 million people around the world will most likely suffer dementia by 2030, and in the US, about 14 million people will fall ill with Alzheimer’s disease by 2050. Alzheimer’s, a leading cause of dementia, causes a slow but incremental decline in thinking skills. It has a direct…
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Selena Gomez is reportedly enjoying a better life after completing her mental health treatment program, reports confirm. The Texas-born star has had several health issues, particularly in 2017 when she had a kidney transplant after suffering complications from lupus, an autoimmune disease that she was diagnosed with in 2013. In October 2016, Selena was forced…
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We all face depression and loneliness at some points in our lives and admittedly, the feeling can be overwhelming. However, there are a few workable suggestions to help you out it. Instead of feeling helpless, here’s something you can do. Adopt these proven ideas alongside therapy and medications: trash every form of dysfunctional thinking, take…
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