Stigmabase | North America

LGBT Athletes Are Harassed Twice as Often as Heterosexual Peers ... : Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender athletes are harassed twice as frequently as their heterosexual peers, leading to a negative campus environment that affects their academic success as well as their athletic identity, a new report says.

Treatment for Mental Illness Is as Necessary, and Normal, as Chemo  - I have had it! I know that it's going to take years before the devastation of mental illness is as well-known and as acknowledged as the damages and ...

Gay pride is kosher in Ra'anana, as long as it stays 'modest'? Gay pride is kosher in Ra'anana, as long as it stays 'modest'? Try as one might to freeze time, the winds of change will blow anyway and some circumstances force a politician to stand up and show us what they are made of. By Allison Kaplan Sommer ...

Children as young as four are 'mentally unwell' - Almost all teachers polled say they have seen mental health problems ... Children as young as four are suffering from mental health issues such as ...

Children as young as seven affected by parents smoking A new study out today [24 July] shows that children as young as seven had elevated levels of cotinine (a by-product of nicotine) in their blood if their mother  ...

Social media is as harmful as alcohol and drugs for millennials - Although we are starting to become aware of the problem, there is no classification of social media addiction as a mental disorder in the same way as ...

How to make your family live as healthily as the Japanese - They interviewed some of the world's leading experts on child health and nutrition, as well as a cross- section of Japanese mothers of young children ...

Study says kids of lesbians just as healthy as those of straight parents  -  Children of same-sex parents are just as healthy emotionally and physically as the children of different-sex parents, according to a recently published ...

US Kids Eat As Much Salt As Adults, Study Finds : The average U.S. child consumes as much salt as an adult, a new study finds. In the study, children ages 8 to 18 consumed about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day between 2003 and 2008. That's about the same amount of sodium consumed by U.S. adults ...

Dealing badly with stress even as a teen 'increases risk of heart disease'  - as a risk factor for coronary heart disease as well as other health problems. ... The new study found that a low resilience to stress as a teenager was ...

Children as young as one 'regularly using touchscreen devices'  -  Children as young as one regularly use touchscreen devices, with most toddlers handling them competently by the age of two, research shows.

Term LGBTQ doesn't help community as much as it used to: Heard - Actor Amber Heard said she believes the term " LGBTQ " does not help the marginalised community as much as it did at one point of time, ...

Bingo-style LGBT homework project introduced for children as young as 11  - A homework project asking pupils as young as 11 to look out for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) characters and references in TV ...

Poor job as bad for mental health as no job Having a job with poor working conditions can be just as bad for a person's mental health as being unemployed, according to new research published in Psychological Medicine today. The study, led by Associate Professor Peter Butterworth from the ANU ...

Maybe this is how democracy ends - The election of Donald Trump has triggered as much wonderment abroad as it has in the United States. David Runciman, a professor of politics at the University of Cambridge, has written in the  London Review of Books  a provocative reflection on the nature of democracy in the age of Trump: “Is this how democracy ends?” There is much to praise in his essay, including his heavy qualification that we really don’t know for sure if what we are seeing is the end phase of mature Western democracies since we do not have the appropriate historical precedents to be certain. Runciman is correct; as an admirer of Karl Popper, I believe that there is no such thing as historical determinism, either in the form of the Marxist dialectical process, or in the guise of its mirror image, the invisible hand of  laissez-faire . Accordingly there is no surefire way to tell in advance whether Trump, Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders would spell the end of democracy as

Lack of resilience as a teen tied to higher diabetes risk as an adult  - Lack of resilience as a teen tied to higher diabetes risk as an adult ... "Both the amount of stress and stress resilience may have important health effects ...

Pupils as young as four are suffering from depression: Children in primary schools experience ... - Infants as young as four are suffering from symptoms of depression and anxiety, a shocking survey has revealed. Pupils in primary schools are experiencing eating disorders, self-harming, panic attacks and even considering suicide amid an 'upswing' in problems. Teachers warn that mental health  ...

Children in poverty 'as happy as more affluent classmates' : "Children living in poverty are as happy as classmates from wealthier homes, a study of 32000 young people has found. Researchers at the National Foundation ...

Basis for eating disorders found in children as young as eight  - Basis for eating disorders found in children as young as eight ... based at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London – the research arm of Great ...

Opposing gay marriage now is as brave as being openly gay was in 1970 Since one's attitude to homosexual acts is now considered the main way of judging whether a person is civilised, one must salute those in public life who defy this. To oppose gay 'equality' today is roughly as brave as it was to be publicly homosexual ...