What Are 5 Dangers of Alcohol? 5 Negative Effects on Health
Even trace amounts of alcohol can have long-term negative effects on your physical and mental health. Alcohol consumption is a personal choice, and many find it to be a wonderful relaxant or enjoy the pleasure it produces. You must, however, remember that alcohol is a psychoactive drug that produces addiction. Like all substances, alcohol harms […]
What Causes Stress? Stress Management, Signs, and Types
What is stress? Excess stress can manifest itself in a variety of emotional, behavioral, and even physical symptoms, and the symptoms of stress vary enormously among different individuals. Stress is a normal part of life that can either help us learn and grow or can cause us significant problems. Stress releases powerful neurochemicals and hormones […]
Can artificial intelligence reveal why languages change over time? American Sign Language is shaped by the people who use it to make communication easier
The way we speak today isn’t the way that people talked thousands — or even hundreds — of years ago. William Shakespeare’s line, “to thine own self be true,” is today’s “be yourself.” New speakers, ideas, and technologies all seem to play a role in shifting the ways we communicate with each other, but linguists […]
7 Cases When A High Sex Drive May Be A Sign Of Trauma
People cope with trauma in different ways, and sometimes you may not even realize your behavior is linked to your past. One way might be through hypersexual behavior, which can look like obsessing over sex, practicing unsafe sex practices and/or feeling unhappy after sex. A 2021 study in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that […]
Why You Want Your Therapist To Like You So Badly
Whenever Emma Flint meets a new therapist, she craves their approval — even when she doesn’t like them. While she wants everyone to like her, the need is different with therapists. “With a therapist, it feels more intense; it almost becomes all-consuming,” said Flint, a writer and freelance journalist. “I want them to like me […]
5 Signs You’re Dealing With A Toxic Parent As An Adult (And How To Cope)
When you grow up with a toxic parent, it can take years — even decades — to recognize how dysfunctional the relationship really is. That could be because their bad behavior was normalized over time or because you were holding out hope that your parent would change and the relationship could be salvaged, Peg Streep […]
More alcohol, less brain: Association begins with an average of just one drink a day
Even light-to-moderate drinking is associated with harm to the brain, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 36,000 adults that found a link between drinking and reduced brain volume that begins at an average consumption level of less than one alcohol unit a day — the equivalent of about half a […]
Opinion | Empathy: A Path to Healthier Healthcare
Even as the country creeps slowly toward a long-anticipated “new normal,” I’m unable to shake off my concern about the pandemic’s long-term toll on physicians, healthcare professionals, and others employed in the healthcare sector. In the midst of these winter doldrums, I had an interesting and surprisingly upbeat conversation with Helen Riess, MD, a psychiatrist […]
5 Hacks To Try If You Only Have A Minute To Destress
Even before the pandemic, Americans were among the most stressed-out people in the world. Then COVID came and walloped us even more. Name a group of Americans, and there has likely been a recent poll showing their stress levels have become unbearable: parents, teachers, health care professionals, teens — the list goes on and on. […]
We’ve Never Really Understood the Prostate
The mistreatment of women on sexual health issues — from mastectomies and hysterectomies to pregnancy and even surgery on sex organs to enhance male pleasure — at the hands of mainly male physicians has been a major theme since the emergence of the modern feminist movement in the 1960s. But what has been largely overlooked […]