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How Does Complex Trauma Affect Cardiovascular Disease?
December 3, 2018 .
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Traumatic stress involves a threat to a person’s life or physical integrity. It can have a profound impact on the brain, nervous system, and peripheral bodily systems. The impact ... Read More
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Minority Stress May Increase Diabetes Risk in Lesbian, Bisexual Women
May 16, 2018 .
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Lesbian and bisexual (LB) women are more vulnerable to type 2 diabetes than heterosexual women, says a study in Diabetes Care. LB women also have higher overall stress due to violence and ... Read More
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How Are You Feeling? Take a Minute to HALT for Your Health
May 15, 2018 .
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How do you feel right now? Great? Okay? Not so good? If you aren’t feeling your best, taking a moment to HALT is one of the best things you can do for your overall mental and physical ... Read More
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Conversion Disorder, Complex Trauma, and the Mind-Body Connection
May 14, 2018 .
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“If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (and the need for the easier explanations such ... Read More
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Improving Treatment for Chronic Illness with Integrative Health Care
April 20, 2018 .
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The medical landscape of today has been transformed into something that our ancestors could barely have imagined. Over the past two centuries, medical science has revolutionized the lives ... Read More
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Vaginismus: What It Is and How It Can Be Treated
March 27, 2018 .
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Many people reach adulthood without ever receiving adequate or accurate information about how their bodies work. As a result, many—women in particular—suffer in silence over symptoms ... Read More
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Coping with Cancer: How Diagnosis Affected My Mental Health
February 2, 2018 .
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In June 2017, I was diagnosed with metastatic sarcoma. I went from being a healthy, practicing therapist who worked three jobs while also caring for my two children and husband, to being ... Read More
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Managing the Fear That Your Cancer Will Return
February 2, 2018 .
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Few things are more commonly experienced among cancer survivors than fearing that one day they’ll be told the cancer has returned. As there are more than 15 million cancer survivors in ... Read More
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How Food Affects Mental Health Differently As We Age
December 20, 2017 .
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Diet affects mental health, but the effects of specific foods change as people age, according to a study published in Nutritional Neuroscience. Research has shown that the brain continues ... Read More
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Can Hypnosis and Diet Help Manage the Pain and Distress of IBS?
November 29, 2017 .
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Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, affects between 8% and 20% of people and tends to be more common in women than men. People who have IBS report frequent gastrointestinal discomfort and ... Read More
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Bridging Medical and Mental Health: From the Doctor’s Office to the Therapist’s Couch
November 22, 2017 .
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The doctor re-entered the office, looked at Alex, and said, “Well, your cholesterol is up and your blood pressure is running a little high. Other than that, things look fine.” Alex ... Read More
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Emotions and Our Health: Understanding Medically Unexplained Symptoms
October 17, 2017 .
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Complex physical symptoms and syndromes like irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, and fibromyalgia are all too common among folks struggling with emotional difficulties, and mounting evidence ... Read More