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Enemies Good for Kids?
Read more: Enemies Good for Kids?Enemies can be good for a child’s growth, say researchers. Almost everyone picks up a tormentor or two while growing up, and until lately psychological researchers have ignored such relationships — assuming them to be little more than the opposite of friendship. Yet new research suggests that as threatening as they may feel, antagonistic relationships…
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Military Mental Health
Read more: Military Mental HealthIn the military, mental health hospitalizations continue to rise. Last year was the first in which hospitalizations for mental disorders outpaced those for injuries or pregnancies in the 15 years of tracking by the Pentagon’s Medical Surveillance Monthly report.
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Testosterone and Sleep
Read more: Testosterone and SleepFrom ScienceDaily: Could Dwindling Testosterone Levels Decrease Sleep? In young men, deep sleep represents 10 to 20 percent of total sleep. By age 50, it decreases to five to seven percent. For men over 60, it can disappear altogether. Sound familiar…?
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Moms Soothing
Read more: Moms SoothingGuess you don’t know for absolutely sure until you study it: Mother’s Voice Calms Stress. Once stressed, one third of the girls were comforted in person by their mothers – specifically with hugs, an arm around the shoulders and the like. One third were left to watch an emotionally neutral 75-minute video. The rest were…
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Journaling and Chronic Pain
Read more: Journaling and Chronic PainA new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone. Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the…