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Tag: mental health
Resilience: Jessie and Glenn Close on mental illness and stigma
http://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm-news/one-to-one/audio/2016/CostelloxGlennClose.mp3/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.audio.mp3hq.mp3 It's ironic. Their last name is Close, yet these sisters were anything but in childhood. They spent their formative years in a sprawling …
Promoting fearlessness: Domestic violence hotline reaches women in India
Women in India have one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. And yet, according to studies, they're among the least likely …
Delving into the bipolar brain
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 6 million American adults have bipolar disorder, a psychiatric illness marked by episodes of mania and depression that …
Four science-backed tips for achieving your goals
New Year's resolutions usually last for weeks, if not days. Despite our good intentions, we drop our career goals, dieting aspirations, mindfulness practices or exercise regimens, and …
U.K. study finds uncertainty is more stressful than a bad result
When faced with a possibly unpleasant situation, many of us would rather receive bad news right away than grapple with the stress of uncertainty. Now research by scientists …
Suicide, rape and other crises stump Siri and her conversational agent peers
Siri can help with navigation, offer cooking tips and even tell stories. But how does she respond in a crisis? Not well enough, according to …
Tips to survive — and thrive during holiday family events
Every year, in the interim between the last bites of my Thanksgiving meal and my first cup of coffee on Black Friday, a gnawing uneasiness …
Take it from me: To improve compliance with psychiatric meds, we must educate patients
We’ve partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Turning loss into hope for others: New website teaches about mental health
Suicide slices close to the heart for me, and I remember well the story of Shelby Drazan, a Woodside, Calif. 17-year-old who died by suicide …
Stanford addiction expert: “The country needs to spring into action” on heroin epidemic
What's underlying today's heroin epidemic and what can be done about it? That was the focus of the opening hour of KQED's Forum yesterday morning, and …
A discussion of intimacy and illness at Medicine X: “Embrace yourself and embrace your normal”
Medicine X is well known for shining a light on dark feelings and difficult-to-talk about topics, as well as being a safe place to hold …
Sleep-deprivation and stress among factors contributing to smoking relapse after childbirth
Smoking can make it more difficult to get pregnant and it can contribute to complications after conception and endanger the health of babies as they …
Optimizing work breaks for health, job satisfaction and productivity
Think about the breaks you take during the day. Perhaps you hit pause midday to grab lunch and to run errands. Or maybe you step …
Stanford psychiatrist: It’s my “mission to help people develop to their full potential”
How can a person fully develop his or her potential, regardless of life circumstances? This is the question that brought Stanford child and adolescent psychiatrist Victor Carrion, MD, …
An Rx for physician burnout
Burnout, which is characterized by emotional exhaustion, a sense of depersonalization and a lack of a sense of personal accomplishment, is on the rise among …