12 Ways Your Pet Can Improve Your Mental Health!
When I am feeling down and weary, and I can barely lift myself off the couch, my dog comes to my rescue. She cuddles with me, then motivates me to get up, dressed, and out the door for a walk or some play time. Somehow my fur-baby even gets me to smile, no matter how [...]
More Sex Partners Linked to Higher Risk of Drug Addiction, Alcoholism
Getty Images/Blend Images / Getty Images/Blend Images – Close up of couple’s feet in bed And the risk is especially great for women, according to new research. Researchers explored the relationship between addictions and risky sexual behavior in a report published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. They followed virtually all of the 1037 [...]
America’s Psychologist launches Healthy Divorce App
Psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere , Professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and mental health consultant to various television programs, today announced the launch of his Healthy Divorce App. The mobile application makes the lessons Dr. Jeff has learned from over two decades of helping individuals through every stage of the divorce process available to [...]
Expressing love can improve your health
After giving a talk at a university in Texas, Kory Floyd received an unusual request from an audience member. The young man asked for a prescription for the health booster Floyd had discussed in his presentation. It was an odd question, given that Floyd isn’t a medical doctor; he holds a doctorate in communication. And [...]
Want a Better Relationship? There’s an App for That
Getty Images / Getty Images Next time you see a couple at a cafe focused intently on their phones instead of each other, don’t assume their relationship is in trouble. They might actually be working out their conflicts, using well-known approaches from couples therapy. Except, of course, with a digital update. She could be texting, [...]
Closeness in a Relationship: Is it Overrated?
Betsie Van der Meer / Getty Images Closeness in a relationship doesn’t necessarily follow the more-is-better approach. A new study shows it doesn’t matter how ‘close’ you and your partner are to make your hearts flutter. What matters is that you’re as close as you want to be, even if that means you’re not very [...]
Loneliness, like chronic stress, taxes the immune system, researchers find
New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to harm overall health. Researchers found that people who were more lonely showed signs of elevated latent herpes virus reactivation and produced more inflammation-related proteins in response to acute stress than did people who felt more socially [...]
The perils and pitfalls of bringing up daughters
by Kate Figes - National Times Steve Biddulph’s warmth, common sense and easy style have turned him into one of the world’s most popular parenting gurus. His book Raising Boys has sold more than 4 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. So it was perhaps only a question of time before he would [...]
Can Dad’s Distress During Mom’s Pregnancy Affect Newborns?
Sonntag / Getty Images Man with head in hands, woman lying in background He doesn’t carry the child, but a father’s prenatal anxiety may have an affect on children’s later behavior. For years, research centered around how a mother’s mental health could impact her child’s development, including later behavioral problems, but the latest research suggests [...]
Family thought to play part in reducing stress for young Mexicans, study shows
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Family members may play a unique and influential role in buffering Mexican youth against the negative effects of stress as they transition into adulthood, suggests a new study by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at universities in Mexico and the U.S. More than 6,700 Mexicans ranging in age from 16 through 21 [...]
