Tag Archive For "depression"
Has Britney Spears got it right? Yoga and Anxiety
Everyone gets anxious. Even Britney Spears, who probably has 10 assistants at her beck and call. Stress and anxiety have reached epidemic proportions all over the world. In the U.S., about 18 percent of adults suffer from medically diagnosed anxiety. Imagine how many others suffer in silence? Studies show about 44 percent percent of us …
World Wide Wellness or World Wide Risks: How the Web Affects Our Health
If newspaper headlines are anything to go by, the disadvantages of using the internet are endless: hacking scandals, security risks from online transactions or uncovering paedophile rings seem to be an everyday occurrence. These aspects of being online can certainly be stressful, but does using the web also have direct health risks?
Bipolar Disorder: A Silver Lining in a Mainstream Film? Part 2
Continued from Part 1 Unlike many films depicting mental illness, the theme of stigma is not central to Silver Linings Playbook. In fact, the audience is even encouraged to feel positively towards some symptoms of mental illness – overly tidy habits and being the life of the party, for example. When the film shows Pat …
Bipolar Disorder: A Silver Lining in a Mainstream Film? Part 1
The Oscar-nominated film Silver Linings Playbook has offered a new perspective on bipolar disorder through the unique medium of cinema, but, has this film really taught us anything new about how we view mental health issues? Silver Linings Playbook has garnered much critical acclaim thanks to its take on mental health issues, in particular for …
Medical Treatments You’re Grateful They Don’t Use Anymore
I forget the number of times my parents tried to get me to the doctor only for them to be met with flat refusal. “I’m fine!” might be a common exclamation from anyone who feels like visiting the GP amounts to admitting defeat, but try and imagine falling ill only a couple of hundred years …
6 Medical Findings We Wish Weren’t True
As a child, you’re pretty carefree about the things you and you’re also pretty feckless as to the effects of pretty much everything. But part of growing up is finding out how much all the fun things you used to do are going to come back and bite you. Hard. I still remember the day …
