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Need a Mental Health Day? Look for These Signs

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adults experience mental health issues—struggles that can show up in a variety of different forms. People in leadership positions may have a harder time taking a mental health day because they think everything rests on their shoulders. What is a mental health day? In some cases that’s the opposite of a mental health day.”

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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And the powerful questions she learned to ask, as well as the tools she developed because of them, would provide a framework for the advocacy and education she would do outside her music. As a result, terms like “ mental health ,” “advocate” and “trauma” were not a part of her lexicon. This year, it’s estimated that the U.S.

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Discover the Best Volunteer Opportunities for Teens

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Give back with health and humanitarian organizations Teenagers who volunteer in health and humanitarian efforts provide valuable support to health care professionals and to their community. Fish & Wildlife Service and others offer volunteer opportunities for teens to learn new skills while benefiting the environment.

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Recent Study Reveals the Career Fields Most Likely to Cause Poor Pregnancy Outcomes

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Surprisingly, however, it was those in health and social work who “showed the highest risk of no live births,” while those in manufacturing and health and social work had similar rates of risk for “early abortive outcomes” like miscarriage, “compared with financial and insurance jobs.” One of the study authors, Jung-won Yoon, M.D.,

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Looking for accurate health information online? 6 tips to find it, from a doctor

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Many people want to do their own medical research online, and they should. Having quality information about any health condition should be a right, not a privilege. But getting quality medical information matters, because you will only be an empowered patient if you have accurate information. And yes, snake oil is alluring.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. The report also shows that mental health disorders cost $1 trillion in lost productivity every year, pointing to the necessity of mental health and wellness programs in making a dent in these losses.

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The Power of Strong Friendships in Strengthening Well-Being

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According to the Making Caring Common Project at Harvard Graduate School of Education, “36% of all Americans—including 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children—feel ‘serious loneliness.’” Aside from emotional distress, loneliness may lead to health issues that are widespread and terrifying. His heart breaks for them.

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