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Mind your mental health According to the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), anxiety disorders last at least six months — unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by an event such as speaking in public or a first date — and can get worse if not treated ...

Taking a mental health day: The case for staying home from work for your mind Why is it considered acceptable to take a sick day to heal your body, but not a mental health day to recharge your mind? Let's challenge traditional thinking in 2013 to make mental health days as acceptable as sick days. Have you ever called in “sick ...

How to Maintain Your Mental Health Naturally After 50 - Conditions like depression and other mental illnesses become more likely and you need to find ways of keeping your mind in top condition. A healthy ...

The mental cost of prejudice: how your skin-colour and who you sleep with affects your mind  -  Mental health issues affect one in four Britons over their lifetimes – but the impact doesn't fall equally. Here's how your gender, the colour of your skin ...

Mental health as important as physical health - What comes on your mind when somebody brings up the topic of ' mental illness '? For the majority , its equivalent to being mentally retarded or simply ...

Speak Your Mind Texas' Campaign sparks discussion about help for mental illness  - McKenzie pleaded with a room full of 60 mental health facilitators, school administrators and state officials to find help for parents who are “stuck in the ...

How to exercise your way to a better state of mind -  Mental health also exists on a continuum; you don't need a clinical diagnosis to have an attitude of growth toward your psychological well-being.

10 Ways To Handle New Year's Diet Resolutions When You Have An Eating Disorder - But bear in mind, ways to handle New Year's diet resolutions when you have an eating disorder are not only vital to your mental health ; they can save ...

Teen depression: how can you tell if your moody teenager is a typical teenager - or has a more ...  - Time to Change is the mental health programme run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness . The latter is a beneficiary of the Telegraph's ...

Young people hit hard as US poverty rate increases to 15.1 percent : They matter for your physical and mental health , your family's stability." "Poverty feels intractable to a lot of people, but when we as a country put our mind to it and try to do something about poverty, we really make headway," Lewis said. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Seven ways to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder - Rachel Boyd, of the mental health charity Mind, says: “If you experience trauma, it's natural that it has an impact on your life.” But not everyone will ...

With your health , don't separate mind from body - When you think of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, rage, bipolar disorder, addiction and other mental illnesses , do you think of them ...