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18 votes
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Too many people took Etika’s mental health struggles as a joke
9 votes -
California's aggressive pro-vaccination policies have made a big difference
9 votes -
Parkinson's disease-causing protein hijacks gut-brain axis
8 votes -
Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach
4 votes -
The chilling mystery of high-altitude suicides
6 votes -
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
17 votes -
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
7 votes -
A ban on smoking in many public outdoor spaces in Sweden comes into effect on July 1st
5 votes -
San Francisco bans sales of e-cigarettes
16 votes -
US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
10 votes -
Lyme disease cases are exploding. And it’s only going to get worse.
8 votes -
Pharmacies in Sweden run out of contraceptive pill Zoely
6 votes -
The health benefits of sauna use
7 votes -
Biohackers with diabetes are making their own insulin
17 votes -
Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
5 votes -
German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
8 votes -
She’s 103 and just ran the 100-meter dash. Her life advice? ‘Look for magic moments’
5 votes -
The medical ethics of fertility clinics refusing to treat prospective mothers they consider too large
6 votes -
Non-prescription mouthwash (SmartMouth) found to be as effective as prescription Chlorhexidine in fighting all degrees of halitosis
5 votes -
'We're on the right side of history': Victoria’s assisted dying laws come into effect for terminally ill
News article: 'We're on the right side of history': Victoria’s assisted dying laws come into effect for terminally ill Legal outline: Voluntary assisted dying laws commence in Victoria - Voluntary...
News article: 'We're on the right side of history': Victoria’s assisted dying laws come into effect for terminally ill
Legal outline: Voluntary assisted dying laws commence in Victoria - Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic)
6 votes -
Injuries in powerlifting: Basic results - Part 2
6 votes -
A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker
6 votes -
Data bleeding everywhere: A story of period trackers
11 votes -
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
8 votes -
New York ends religious exemptions for required vaccines
14 votes -
A friends-and-family intervention for preventing teen suicide
5 votes -
Five-year-old boy dies in Uganda as Congo Ebola outbreak spreads
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Do you practice any form of meditation?
I practiced and studied Zen meditation in many periods of my life, and it helped me immensely. I find it's philosophy reasonable and compelling: the basic idea of simply doing what's in front of...
I practiced and studied Zen meditation in many periods of my life, and it helped me immensely.
I find it's philosophy reasonable and compelling: the basic idea of simply doing what's in front of you. If you have to do the dishes, do the dishes and nothing else. Be full in the act of doing the dishes.
Zen writing and meditation reduce my anxiety by helping me look at life in a more positive and expontaneous way. Paradoxically, worrying less about results usually gets much better results.
With that said, I ask:
- Do you practice any form of meditation? Which one?
- What was your initial purpose for practicing meditation?
- Are you still doing it? Why?
- Do you study the philosophical, scientifical or religious aspects behind your practice?
25 votes -
It is official, the smoking age will be 21 in Texas
23 votes -
How doctors die: What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little
7 votes -
Oakland in California decriminalizes magic mushrooms and peyote
16 votes -
Animation showing the hierarchy of health research since 1947
@drmohidkhan: This is amazing: the hierarchy of diseases studied in the last 70 years! From https://t.co/aANCZti0Io #research #clinicalresearch #letstalkaboutnets https://t.co/xWUe5Jq56P
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European Drug Report 2019 directly contrasts US drug crisis, tells a story of relative calm
7 votes -
The forgotten victim of the Salvation Army building collapse
4 votes -
Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks
15 votes -
What it’s like to live beyond a death sentence: With stage IV cancer, chances at survival are slim. Men in remission tell us about staying strong when every day is a bonus
9 votes -
Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak cases have doubled in just two months crossing the 2,000-mark
6 votes -
What it feels like to learn your rapist is dead
4 votes -
The myopia boom: Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions.
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Mental health support & discussion thread (May 2019 edition)
a couple of people have commented on this thread being helpful for them since tildes is a pretty welcoming community and this thread seems like something that would be nice to make regular...
a couple of people have commented on this thread being helpful for them since tildes is a pretty welcoming community and this thread seems like something that would be nice to make regular anyways, so let's do that. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc.
resources that might also be of some benefit to you, since i have a list i informally maintain (s/o to cfabbro also for supplementing this list):
- there is, as always, the invaluable list of country hotlines maintained by /r/SuicideWatch
- https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ ("an online source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance abuse/addiction and/or mental health problems")
- https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/ (probably one of the best resources for finding a therapist)
- https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms (ditto, with finding a psychiatrist)
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml (covers some of the major mental disorders, their symptoms and treatments, and general topics like that)
- https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for (what symptoms to look for for major mental disorders)
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/ (US specific, but also covers ways you can help yourself and a bunch of ways to seek treatment or support)
- there's also some stuff over at /r/SWResources that might be worth checking out which is consistently updated.
20 votes -
The subtle ways cities are restricting abortion access
6 votes -
Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group'
10 votes -
Mental health support & discussion thread (June 2019 edition)
also going to toss this one up before i go to sleep this morning. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've...
also going to toss this one up before i go to sleep this morning. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc.
resources that might also be of some benefit to people:
- there is, as always, the invaluable list of country hotlines maintained by /r/SuicideWatch
- https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ ("an online source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance abuse/addiction and/or mental health problems")
- https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/ (probably one of the best resources for finding a therapist)
- https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms (ditto, with finding a psychiatrist)
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml (covers some of the major mental disorders, their symptoms and treatments, and general topics like that)
- https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for (what symptoms to look for for major mental disorders)
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/ (US specific, but also covers ways you can help yourself and a bunch of ways to seek treatment or support)
- there's also some stuff over at /r/SWResources that might be worth checking out which is consistently updated.
and here is the may thread if you'd like to reference/update us on something you mentioned there.
16 votes -
Ten years after abortion doctor's brutal murder, one woman carries the fight for reproductive rights
7 votes -
All-American despair: For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
12 votes -
U.S. measles cases in first five months of 2019 surpass total cases for any year since 1994, may cause loss of measles elimination status
7 votes -
The misbehaviour of behaviourists
6 votes -
My scars: Journey to body acceptance
5 votes -
In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history
3 votes