mental health

Mental health is the state of emotional well-being. People are beginning to realize taking care of their mental health is just as important as their physical health.

Mental and physical health and fitness are closely related. It is often argued that without one being in a healthy state, the other will not thrive.

In most people, a healthy body helps to keep the mind functioning like a well-oiled machine.

There are now mental health professionals who specialize in the level of cognitive well-being of their patients. Treatments for mental health disorders range from counseling and therapy to homeopathic medicine to prescription drugs.

Mental health disorders sometimes stem from traumatic experiences while others are simply inherited from family members.

You'll find bloggers talking about mental health at sites like Mental Health MN and Psych Central.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “mental health”

• in Social Media
  The Top Four Reasons To Quit Facebook
  Has the social media titan lost its edge?
  by ryanhonick / on Apr 13, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Brain Marvel: Meditation Keeps You Focused While Day-Dreaming Causes Depression
  The role of meditation is critical to our mental health. Meditation when done correctly involves higher states of consciousness that overtime, ultimately trains the brain to stay focused on specialized tasks. A wandering brain, conversely, creates ill health.
  by wellnesssultana / on Nov 28, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Low Birthweight Babies Five Times More Likely To Develop Autism
  Study shows low birthweight babies, when compared with general population, are five times more likely to develop autism.
  by vicfizzlebottom / on Oct 17, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mental health”

 

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  Sgt. Johnny Magnum shares his story about struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his unique method for coping and overcoming it in the hope that it inspires and helps others to seek assistance. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] By Sgt. Justin ...
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• Prison Planet.com » Bilderberg 2012: Dark Cabal Meet to Plot Final End Game

  
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  Paul Watson welcomes Charlie Skelton, reporter for The Guardian to discuss the upcoming Bilderberg Conference in Chantilly, Virginia. via Prison Planet.com » Bilderberg 2012: Dark Cabal Meet to Plot Final End Game. Related articles Occupy Bilderberg 2012 (2012patriot.wordpress.com) Bilderberg Agenda Attracts National ...
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• Financial Problems & Don’t Know What To Do

  
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  Don’t know what to do. Hello my name is Andrew, I am actually asking these things for both me and my grandma. She is 72 and i am 20 years old living with her. It seems every month we find it harder and harder to get by. She only makes money via social security, and after bills are payed we have 75-50 dollars left ...
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• Goin’ Crazy: Six Fabulously Fragile Film Femmes

  
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  In Virginia , the new film from Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black , Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly plays a single mom with a none-too-firm grasp on reality. Her idea for getting away from the washed-up resort town she’s stuck in? Faking a pregnancy and robbing a bank in a gorilla mask. Virginia is a ...
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• Mother with Schizophrenia

  
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  Hello, my mom has had Schizophrenia since I was born. Having seeing her before her medication has definitely scarred me but that’s not the problem. Even on her medication she still talks to herself, every time I hear it, I hear a little too much and it hurts my feelings pretty bad. She has tried to divorce my dad ...
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• Risperdal Is Working For My Five Year Old

  
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  Support my Sponsor & Preserve Family MemoriesSupport my Sponsor & Preserve Family Memories I have told the story of my Aj forever now, it’s been three years since we started the fight to find out what was up with him. Our first concern was the lack of sleep, never having slept through the night & always ...
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• Hanging Canberra’s leading suicide method for mental health patients.

  
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  The Open Government website has released an FOI request on suicides in the ACT by people in the care, or formerly in the care of Mental Health ACT between 2006 and 2012.Majority men, but not overwhelmingly so. And hanging a clear favourite although carbon monoxide very popular.Ingestion of caustic substance sounds ...
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• LSD EFFECT: SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER [EUPHORIA]

  
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• Don’t Help the Homeless.

  
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  In a flash of a micro second this familiar paradigm that is normally fraught with the constant conundrum of can I help this person today was flipped upside down and inside out.
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• Healthy & Vegan Memorial Day Recipes.

  
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• Epigenetics — genes do not determine your future! (or your mental health)

  
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  Epigenetics -- genes do not determine your future! (or your mental health)
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• Yes marijuana is good for your…

  
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  Yes marijuana legal bud reviews is good for your well being. Medical cannabis that is. Today there is increasing involvement in the utilization of medical pot for treating many techniques from cancer to monthly cramps and migraine headaches. Those who wouldn’t be caught dead using marijuana are actually interested ...
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• May Commemorates Many Things; Mental Health Is One PWDs Should Be Aware Of

  
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  The month of May commemorates many things, including Memorial Day in the U.S., which is a Federally-observed, national holiday on the last Monday of May meant to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. In practice, however, Memorial Day weekend, which amounts to a three-day weekend for most people, is ...
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• Mental Health Break

  
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• Sure marijuana is wonderful fo…

  
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  Sure marijuana is wonderful for your quality of life. Medical cannabis that is. Currently there is increasing fascination with using medical pot for treating many techniques from cancer to monthly cramps and migraines. People who wouldn’t be found dead using marijuana are now interested in medical marijuana because ...
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• The Benefits of Masochism. ~ Brandon Figliolino

  
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  I’d just ridden past that day’s final checkpoint banner for the Colorado Newmont BIKE M.S. ride. Cowbells were clanging and people were cheering on both sides of me, when a man around my age stuck his hand over the temporary fence. I gave him a high-five as he shouted with a grin, “Great ride, masochist!” [...]
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• Zero Gov – Anti-Government, Pro-Liberty » Blog Archive » Free To Choose: Refusal is the Ultimate Liberty by Bill Buppert

  
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  …..It strikes at the heart of what freedom actually is. At its most basic and stripped down level, it is elegantly and brutally unsophisticated; freedom and liberty is the imperative be left alone and not forced to comply with anything you don’t consent to. Are there negative consequences and sad outcomes as folks ...
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• Movie Review: Bud Clayman in ‘OC87’

  
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  Bud Clayman, a director of the documentary “OC87.”
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• Postpartum Dad Depression.

  
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  What I tell my students is this: "You had nine months to grow a baby. Give dad his nine months to get to know that baby."
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• WORLD SCHIZOPHRENIA DAY

  
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  Today is World Schizophrenia Day!
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