By Kids eatright. — 2019
In today's culture, weight can be a sensitive subject, especially for children and teens. The desire to be thin is reaching school-aged children, as girls as young as 6 years old express concerns about their body image and gaining weight.
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If you’re struggling with depression or anxiety, your symptoms may actually be due to untreated ADD.
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It’s no secret that kids today are more stressed than ever and why we must help ease children’s stress.
Experts I spoke with for this story pointed to a couple of reasons professional athletes are particularly susceptible to mental health issues.
It’s no surprise that when a person gets a diagnosis of heart disease, cancer or some other life-limiting or life-threatening physical ailment, they become anxious or depressed.
Plus expert tips on how to manage each of them.
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Here’s why it’s important to look out for all the ways anxiety can manifest in your body.
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Understanding the mind/body connection.
For many of my patients, and even myself, the recognition that anxiety can be its own toxic comfort has been a lightbulb moment. It can be unsettling to examine our thoughts and our behaviors closely.
“Because it is possible to create—creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self…—one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”
It’s normal to feel anxious from time to time, but anxiety that disrupts your everyday life may indicate a disorder.