What Are Ways to Reduce Stress? 28 Stress Relaxation Techniques
While you can’t always avoid stressful situations, here are 28 tips and relaxation techniques that can help you manage and reduce stress Chronic stress can be harmful to your health and raise your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and other conditions. While you can’t always avoid stressful situations, here are 28 tips and […]
How Do You Catch Someone Lying? 10 Signs of Liars
Whether it’s a romantic relationship or business deal, here are some signs that may help you determine if someone is lying to you. Whether it’s a romantic relationship or business deal, lying hurts all involved. Although you cannot run a lie detector test in everyday life, some signs may help you determine whether someone is […]
How Do Covert Narcissists Argue? 6 Techniques They Use
Covert narcissists tend to be passive-aggressive and may use emotional manipulation to win arguments. Here are 6 arguing techniques they use People with narcissistic personality disorders (NPD) are extremely self-centered, unwilling to resolve conflict in a healthy or mature manner. Covert narcissists tend to be passive-aggressive and may use emotional manipulation to win arguments. 6 arguing […]
What Are 6 Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders?
Here is a quick checklist of 6 signs and symptoms to help determine whether your anxiety is a disorder or not. Anxiety is a natural way for the body to prepare for an important event. One may have observed that during or after the event, they began to relax and breathe more easily. Anxiety helps […]
What Are 4 Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder? Depression
Here are the 4 main symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which include feeling sleepy, desire for carb-rich foods, mood swings, and feeling low. Symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) are similar to those of normal depression, but they occur regularly at a specific time of year. They typically begin in the fall or winter […]
Testing Third Doses of COVID Vaccine in Transplant Patients
Last month, we reported in JAMA and here in MedPage Today that almost half of transplant patients show no antibodies after a full two-dose mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine series. We’ve also recently published that the antibody response is no better, and possibly even worse, with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson adenovirus vaccine. Combined with reports of […]
How Do You Help Someone Who Is Struggling Emotionally? 11 Ways
While you may not be able to fix someone’s problems, here are 11 simple ways to offer support to someone who is struggling emotionally Supporting someone who is struggling emotionally can make a huge difference in their recovery. While you may not be able to fix their problems, you may be able to help them […]
How Do You Relieve Stress and Anxiety? 30 Stress Management Tips
Here are thirty tips for relieving stress, including deep breathing exercises, relaxation strategies, blood pressure management and mental health stress responses. Feelings of stress and anxiety can be unpleasant, even affecting your mental and physical health. These feelings can result in distress, which makes them extremely challenging to deal with. Fortunately, here are some easy […]
Getting Ready for the Next Plague
Yesterday I got an email from the Department of Health here in New York City announcing that they are spraying local bodies of water in Brooklyn starting this Thursday, to eliminate mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Man, it’s bad enough that we’re dealing with the Delta variant of COVID-19 — now we’ve got to remember […]
How Can I Tell If I’m a Narcissist? 21 Signs of NPD
How can you tell if you are a narcissist? Here are 21 signs of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) We live in an increasingly self-obsessed culture, and we hear the word narcissist thrown around quite often in social media. But what is narcissism, and how can you tell if you are a narcissist? Here are 21 […]