Columbus, OH

There is a connection between stress, emotional arousal, and pain. The brain’s pain map can be triggered any time, leading to pain flare-ups. Awareness can help loosen the connection between stress, emotion, and pain. If you are one of the four million individuals in the United States struggling with...

Manage Fibromyalgia Flare-Ups and Get Back to Enjoying Life

Mood and emotion affect both what and how we learn and how we adapt to the environment. Disrupted neural activity in reward (striatum) and mood (insula) centers characterize bipolar disorder. Further exploration of the link between mood momentum shifts and RPEs might lead to new targets for therapy. How would...

Mood Momentum in Bipolar Disorder

The neuromodulator dopamine accounts for your motivational peaks and valleys. Experiencing pleasure and feeling motivated are impossible when baseline dopamine drops significantly. Depleted dopamine levels need replenishment but rebounding is psychologically akin to feeling physical pain. Many of us are familiar with the demoralizing feeling of a letdown. It happens...

Embrace Pain to Amplify Your Long-Term Pleasure

OCD is often misdiagnosed as generalized anxiety, leading to less effective interventions. PTSD can ignite anxiety symptoms associated with hypervigilance. A variety of physical health conditions can cause symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety is likely the most common difficulty reported by clients I meet. Whether it is anxiety due to life...

4 Things That Masquerade as Anxiety

Health Digest

As it turns out, certain medications can have adverse effects on the quality of your sleep. If you take them close to bedtime, you may not get adequate rest.

9 Medications You Should Avoid Taking Before Going To Sleep

We all have that one friend who keeps us guessing about where we stand with them. No matter how much we try to include them in our plans, share our thoughts or just be a good friend to them, our efforts always seem to fall flat. And when we try to talk to them about it, we often end up feeling even more confused.

3 Ways to Spot a Bad Friend From How They Speak to You

Women now cheat at rates near similar to men. Women often explain their infidelity as a result of a dissatisfying primary relationship. Only about 7 percent of women say they cheated because of how they felt about their affair partner. Why do women cheat? For affection? For revenge?. In most...

When Women Cheat, It's Usually for These 10 Reasons

The Hill

For those experiencing a reinfection, the symptoms they feel this time around may be different.

Why your COVID symptoms may feel different with this wave of infections

Research shows that we tend to become more self-compassionate as we grow older. Self-compassion can be a powerful resource for living, encouraging you to treat yourself with kindness. Self-compassion makes it easier to cope with life’s curveballs and to make peace with your own imperfection. There’s no point trying...

My Midlife Superpower

The first signs of cognitive decline in an older relative could hint at a condition called dementia. One form, Alzheimer's dementia, manifests in 7 stages.

The 7 Stages Of Dementia Before Death Explained

Irish Star

Dementia is a condition that affects cognitive abilities, but memory is not the first thing to go, and there are symptoms that appear before memory loss

Five early dementia symptoms you'll notice before memory loss

Heartburn, acid reflux, GERD: What’s the difference?. Ever felt an uncomfortable tightness or pain in your chest after a big bowl of chili or spicy takeout? It could be heartburn, which occurs when the acid in your stomach sloshes back up into your esophagus (the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach) and irritates its lining, causing that all-too-familiar burning sensation.

Need Fast Relief From Heartburn? Try These Home Remedies

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Emily Standley Allard

If you’ve ever wondered why your partner or mate was so gosh darn easy to love, or on the flip side impossible to love at times, their sun sign could give you some important clues! I’ve definitely been in relationships that have tested my patience to the limits and other ones that have been a smooth sailing ride. The answers just may be in the stars! Read on to discover the zodiac signs according to Astrology.com that are the easiest to the hardest to love.

The Zodiac Signs Ranked Easiest to Hardest to Love

Chicago, IL

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

If you’re facing cancer, so much can seem out of your control. But with a few strategies, you can still have some power over how you feel — in mind, body and spirit — as you get through chemotherapy. A cancer expert shares tips. 1. Start a...

6 Tips to Get Through Chemotherapy

I had never heard of what is officially labeled “broken heart syndrome” until a friend of mine collapsed five weeks after her long-term sweetheart died. She was rushed to the emergency room and admitted into the hospital, but within 36 hours, she, too, was dead. When 92-year-old former first lady Barbara Bush died in 2018, her husband – of 73 years! – was admitted to the hospital the day after her funeral. He recovered and was able to return home, but many observers worried that he would develop takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which often claims the lives of brokenhearted survivors.

Can a Broken Heart Kill You?

In conversation, we generally expect people to be truthful. Certain intentional linguistic choices can mislead a listener without actually "lying." Scalar implicatures allow speakers to be deceptive. By being "truthfully" misleading, speakers can maintain plausible deniability. Although there are some who might feel no compunction about lying, most of us...

What It Means to Be Truthfully Misleading

Colorado State

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Anxiety and anger are two powerful emotions that are sometimes closely intertwined. While at first glance, they may seem unrelated, having anxiety can be the driving force behind feelings of anger or vice versa. Understanding the link between anxiety and anger may help people who are experiencing them seek appropriate...

Is there a connection between anxiety and anger?

Virginia State

Cheryl E Preston

Wendy's birthday was spent away from her loved ones. Virginia Wendy Williams fans, the latest update is not encouraging. The former talk show host turned 60 on July 18 without any of her loved ones around. According to Yahoo, family members remain "out of bounds" and have no access to Wendy as she battles dementia and progressive aphasia.

The family of talk show diva Wendy Williams were unable to celebrate her 60th birthday by her side

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How to Cope With Physical Pain

Apply the dichotomy of control. Don't demand a perfect solution. Apply the problem-separation technique. An unpleasant and often difficult aspect of life consists of experiencing temporary,...

How to Cope With Physical Pain

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