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Stopping Pain Without Drugs
Read more: Stopping Pain Without DrugsHere’s a quick interview with Dr. Vijay Vad, author of “Stop Pain.” He suggests exercise for chronic pain. Not quite on the stress illness bandwagon, but in its neighborhood: I have seen a big explosion in chronic back pain and arthritis, and what I realized is that people have very limited self-help options. In the…
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Reducing “Self-Stigma”
Read more: Reducing “Self-Stigma”A study uses something called Narrative Enhancement Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address internalized stigma for people with mental illness. The intervention is aimed at giving people with a mental illness the necessary tools to cope with the “invisible” barrier to social inclusion – self-stigma. [The study] showed that those who participated in the intervention exhibited…
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CBT and Depression
Read more: CBT and DepressionA study suggests more C, less B is helpful in early weeks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy treatment for depression. Also: Patients improved more when they collaborated with their therapists about a plan for treatment and followed that plan. Not surprisingly, patients also showed greater improvement when they were more engaged in the therapy process and…
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Mental Illness and Jails
Read more: Mental Illness and JailsGrim report: Mentally ill people are sent to jail more often than hospital. As a result of the deinstitutionalization movement that began in the 1960s, though, “it is now extremely difficult to find a bed for a seriously mentally ill person who needs to be hospitalized,” Pavle and his co-authors write. In 1955, they write,…
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Mindful Computing
Read more: Mindful ComputingHeard of this? Stillness Buddy. Designed for those who find themselves jumping from one thing to another on the computer without a second’s break or breath. From the site: Stillness Buddy works by displaying on your desktop screen, short “moments of stillness” and longer “mindfulness pauses,” spread out during the day. These breaks are very brief so…