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It may be surprising to learn that serious mental illness—such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease and severe depression—afflicts about one in 20 Americans. Some of us have encountered these conditions in the experience of family members. Others see it routinely on display on city streets. By now, as Thomas Insel notes in “Healing: Our Path From …

Monica Mendez and Jessica Chow both faced unplanned pregnancies at a young age. Each made a different choice. “When I saw the pregnancy stick, I thought my life was over,” said Chow, who decided to have an abortion. “I don’t want to do this, I want to keep my child,” Mendez, who had her child, …

There’s a common view of business today that says for-profit organizations neither can nor should have any higher goal than maximizing the bottom line and shareholder value. Everything else — people, organizations, assets — are just items to be used in service of that goal. Raj Sisodia and Michael Gelb offer a wildly different take …

Body art has become a form of self-expression. When visible, they tell the world something about you and what you like, about what you believe and value. Tattoos also pay homage to loved ones, permanently enshrining the names of lovers, precious children or dates of special significance. While the popularity of tattoos has grown, regulation …

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Every Friday west Baltimore’s Transformation Health turns a hallway into a dance hall. They say it’s all about mental health, and it helps clients feel better. It’s just a hallway off the lobby at the Transformation Health office until a little disco lighting and music comes on. “Why dancing? I think, and I …

There is no such thing, as an accurate, crystal – ball, when it comes, to foreseeing, one’s health, and happiness. However, most experts agree, one’s attitude, focus, self – confidence, and willingness to consider options, and alternatives, with an open – mind, enhances one’s possibilities, and potential! Are you someone, who considers, obstacles, as problems, …

Ostend, the blowy Belgian resort on the North Sea, has international aspirations and Marvin Gaye, the late prince of Motown, has emerged as central to realising them. In February 1981, struggling with drink and drug dependency and being chased by the IRS over a multimillion-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old singer-songwriter took the Southampton ferry to …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The new technique means a patient’s bandages do not have to be removed to see what is happening with the wound A new technique is being developed to help heal wounds by listening to them. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are creating tiny electronic sensors that can hear what is …

Of all the popular “new age” search terms in the health and healing category, my personal favorite is holistic healing. This term, it seems, embodies all of the others, like spiritual healing, soul healing, healing meditation, chakra, energy healing, spiritual journey and metaphysics. Some of these terms are specific methodologies like Chakra and guided meditation, …

A holistic Approach is a form of healing that takes the entire person into account, meaning physical – mental – and emotional. Healing is promoted by treating the individual of the person based on the principal that, where one part is out of balance, it causes the entire system to become imbalanced and therefore unwell. …