Mental Health

Why the evidence doesn’t hold up very well when it comes to exercise and depression — Depression is one of the biggest health issues in society today. It’s hard to know for sure how many people experience depression, but current best estimates put it at about 1 in 10 people experiencing symptoms consistent with major depressive disorder every year, and a scarily high 1 in 5…

The Ultimate Guide for Fakeclaimers — Hello and welcome to my professional opinion. Today I’ll be talking about dissociative identity disorder (DID), which is caused by extreme, ongoing trauma in early childhood. People with DID can exhibit multiple personalties, and sometimes appear online — much like many other humans in 2023. If you’d like to tell…

Five years later, we were divorced, making the entire ordeal a monumental waste of time — Fear of having your blood drawn is commonly referred to as trypanophobia or venipuncture phobia. It is a type of anxiety disorder that can cause severe distress and feelings of panic when faced with the prospect of being pricked with a needle in order to draw blood. It is estimated…

These traits determine whether you are actually going to succeed in life, relationships, and work. — My mid-30’s have become kind of a weird trip. For the first time in my life, I’m seeing a massive divide between a lot of my groups of friends. In a word, I’m seeing a massive shift that deals with my adult “have’s” and “have-not’s.” What’s strange is that the…

Keep your standards high and boundaries strong. — We talk a lot about emotional boundaries, which are the lines that you draw around the behavior and treatment that you will (and won’t) accept from the people around you. At times, they’re the most difficult to maintain in an intimate relationship, because emotions run high, judgment can become cloudy…

How to tell if all that noise is a serious health problem or just annoying — You snore, I snore, even our dog snores. Almost everyone snores, at least now and then, experts say, and the behavior can be totally innocuous — at least to the person actually getting some noisy z’s. But when snoring sounds like a freight train rumbling through the bedroom, or startling…