By Robert Firestone
Each individual faces a struggle against powerful odds to retain a unique selfhood and personal identity.
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Experts and researchers use terms like “epidemic” and “crisis” to characterize the mental health challenges currently facing American college students. Statistics back up these claims.
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Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.
“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”
A cancer diagnosis brings a wealth of psychological challenges. In fact, adults living with cancer have a six-time higher risk for psychological disability than those not living with cancer.
This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
Experts I spoke with for this story pointed to a couple of reasons professional athletes are particularly susceptible to mental health issues.
Research shows exercise can ease things like panic attacks or mood and sleep disorders, and a recent study in the journal Lancet Psychiatry found that popular team sports may have a slight edge over the other forms of physical activity.
More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.
Death anxiety encompasses a broad spectrum of emotions ranging from a few passing moments of fear to a complete state of panic.
The ultimate tragedy of the human condition is our awareness of our inevitable mortality.
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