How Do I Explain Bipolar Disorder to Family? When you think about how to explain yours or a loved one’s bipolar disorder to others, it can feel daunting. It may even feel like you should not have to explain it to anyone, yet it is impacting your life. When thinking about how to organize your…
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Is Water Fasting Safe? Water fasting is popular in the wellness world. You should approach it with caution. It may help you lose weight but it is not sustainable to health or weight loss. It may put you at risk of health complications, especially in recovery. Know more about it before you consider starting one…
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Try Healthier Habits in Recovery for a Boost Healthy habits are hard to maintain. Eating healthy, exercising, keeping a good body weight, not smoking are just a few that are good for us but we don’t always do them. The healthiest lifestyles are those that help people stay healthy longer and achieve a better course…
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How Do People in Rural Communities Find Help for Addiction? Access to health care continues to be a topic of global discussion, with accessibility to treatment needing to be addressed as part of that access. People in rural areas particularly struggle to find help for addiction. More than 100 million people in the United States…
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Your Wandering Mind is Just Fine: How to Stop Worrying When You Can’t Focus When you are sitting somewhere or walking around and find your mind wandering, it is okay to wonder why you simply cannot stop and focus for five minutes. While most literature paints your mind wandering as detrimental, even dysfunctional, it is…
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How Do I Know if I Struggle with Learned Helplessness? Learned helplessness is a state animals can get into when they meet negative stimuli when they try to escape. After awhile, they stop trying to get away. They assume the situation is hopeless and cannot be changed. This can become such an issue that even…
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Why the Early Bird May Have an Advantage Over the Night Owl The inner workings of the body clock are just beginning to be known for how much they help our overall health. When we think about mental health and disease, it is good to know about circadian rhythms and the body’s natural way of…
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What is a Relaxation Response and How Does it Aid in Recovery? The counterpart to fight-or-flight response, the relaxation response, occurs when the body no longer is in perceived danger. The autonomic nervous system functioning returns to normal and the body relaxes. The relaxation response is the opposite of the body’s stress response. During relaxation,…
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For Better Recovery, Try Happiness on for Size Short writing exercises can help boost the mood of adults recovering from addiction in a study conducted by researchers at a research institute. Recovery is hard but worth the effort. For better recovery, it helps to find happiness as a travel companion. Finding Joy Most people in…
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Do Therapy Dogs Help Improve Overall Health? Therapy dogs are pets that improve health by giving emotional support. You may train your dog to be a therapy dog to provide support to yourself and others, but they are animals that basically help support growth and better functioning. They can visit a variety of settings, including…
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