There is nothing wrong with you when you feel depressed during the holidays. All that celebration, joy and good will can actually get a little much. You might believe that you are out of step with the rest of the world, but statistics say that over 40% of the population just feels exhausted and inadequate. […]
According to the recent study , 4.4 percents of Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder at some point in their lives. Most of them (83 percents) have a severe version of the disease. Many people are not diagnosed properly and only about half of them are receiving treatment. Another interesting finding of the study […]
It baffles parents worldwide: why are our children so unhappy? The more we give them, the more miserable they are. We are faced with an epidemic of anxiety among children. 11 percents of children and young adolescents are suffering from depression. The rates of aggression among children doubled in the last 25 years. Most children […]
The new study found that loneliness and unhappiness can make us vulnerable to diseases by undermining our immune protection. The results of the study have not been published yet, but were presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in New Orleans.
There is an ongoing debate among the scientists in the British Medical Journal about whether anti-depressants are over-prescribed or not. This debate crops up every now and then, and scientists are divided between those who believe that most people are just promoting anti-depressant’s manufacturer’s industry, and those who are aware of the increase in the […]
As the population ages, the number of people with old age dementia and particularly Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise. According to the Alzheimer’s Disease International, 35.6 million people worldwide are living with this debilitating disease, and the number is expected to grow to 115 million people by 2050. There is currently no cure for […]
People are living longer than ever before and it can be credited that advances in routine testing and examinations are the positive causes. However, routine testing using radiation or invasive procedures plus the practice of prescribing unnecessary medications can actually cause more harm than good.
There is nothing like soaking in a hot bathtub, with soothing smell of aromatherapy candles lined all around you. You could spend hours enjoying it and feeling all the stress going away. Scientists now say that one hour is the limit. Longer than that and aromatic oils will do more damage than good.
Using hypnosis to treat physical ailments is being heavily researched, because of many successes so far, but also as a way to cut costs for medical care. While scientists used hypnosis before to treat diseases, it was done in strictly clinical conditions. The new study conducted by a group of Swedish scientists found a way […]
There is nothing like soaking in a hot bathtub, with soothing smell of aromatherapy candles lined all around you. You could spend hours enjoying it and feeling all the stress going away. Scientists now say that one hour is the limit. Longer than that and aromatic oils will do more damage than good.
