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The closer you live to nature, the healthier you’re likely to be. For instance, people who live within 1 kilometer of a park or wooded area experience less anxiety and depression, Dutch researchers report. The findings put concrete numbers on a concept that many health experts had assumed to be true. “It’s nice to see that it shows that, that the closer ...
All antidepressants may not be created equal when it comes to worsening of suicidal ideation during treatment, researchers found. Men taking nortriptyline (Aventyl, Pamelor) were 2.4 times more likely to have an increase in suicidal thoughts than were those taking escitalopram (Lexapro), Nader Perroud, MD, of King’s College London, and colleagues reported online in BMC ...
A nervous breakdown refers to a mainstream and often-used term to generically describe someone who experiences a bout of mental illness that is so severe, it directly impacts their ability to function in everyday life. The specific mental illness can be anything – depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or something else. But the reference to a “nervous ...
Everyone has anxious moments regardless of who you are or what you do. A little bit of anxiety is not going to hurt anyone but there are levels of anxiety that can actually make you physically ill. This is a full blown panic attack. You may be asking what a panic attack is exactly. The panic attack is an immediate and overwhelming attack of anxiety that comes on without any warning. One ...
