Tag: mental health
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Exercise and Mental Health
Read more: Exercise and Mental HealthNYT reports study about Activity and Mental Health in Women: People who are physically active appear to be at lower risk for cognitive impairment late in life, and for women, a new study suggests, physical activity during the teenage years may provide the greatest benefit.
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Tai Chi for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
Read more: Tai Chi for Stress, Anxiety, and DepressionScience Daily: Tai Chi Gets Cautious Thumbs Up for Psychological Health. [A study] found that practicing Tai Chi was associated with reduced stress, anxiety, depression and mood disturbance, and increased self-esteem. What’s Tai Chi? Wikipedia’s answer is here.
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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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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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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,…