DON'T EVER GIVE UP
On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what ails you. (To stay […]
2022-02-17 Inside the Tactical Tug of War Over the Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Arthur Allen The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked federal officials’ decision to decline routine Medicare coverage for a controversial Alzheimer’s drug. They’ve gone as far as to accuse them of tacit racism, ageism, and discrimination against the […]
2022-02-03 For bullied teens, online school offered a safe haven Bullying happened more during in-person school than when schooling was online. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images Hannah L. Schacter, Wayne State University Online school during the COVID-19 pandemic was hard on many teens, but new research I co-authored has found a potential silver lining: Students were bullied […]
Leaving Secrets: How to Create a Personal Instruction Manual for Life By: Joe Vitale Imagine if your great, great grandfather or grandmother had left you a book with their secrets for living. Maybe it contained nuggets of wisdom, yummy recipes, favorite jokes, or just insights for how to lead a good life. Ever since […]
2022-02-16 This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help. Noam N. Levey Alexander Roodman was packing up his room, preparing for a gap year before college, when I met him at his family’s Washington, D.C., townhouse. The room was a typical teenage disaster zone, with clothes and […]
Abandonment: Referencing the Characters Nomi Nickel from Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness, and Chiyo from Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha Abandonment is a mother bird deserting her baby chick after its first flight. Leaving a loved one to fend for itself on its own, results in confusion and heartache. Yet, if […]
How Support Systems Are Failing Millions of American Children (StatePoint) At a time when the economic impacts of COVID-19 are making it hard for many families to afford healthy food and safe housing, and ever-changing work and school schedules are making their logistics hard to juggle, a new report finds that inequities […]
Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may have as pets. – […]
2022-02-15 Why Millions on Medicaid Are at Risk of Losing Coverage in the Months Ahead Rachana Pradhan The Biden administration and state officials are bracing for a great unwinding: millions of people losing their Medicaid benefits when the pandemic health emergency ends. Some might sign up for different insurance. Many others are bound to […]
The Triangle for Success By: John Neyman Jr Success is a direct result of applying the right principles to your professional life and your personal life. The question is what are the right principles to apply in order to achieve success? Over the years of studying, four primary principles of success continue to surface […]