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Can prolonged social isolation and loneliness increase blood pressure and the production of stress hormones? A headline like “Public Health Crisis of Social Isolation and Loneliness” would likely have you thinking that this is an article about the global coronavirus pandemic. Actually, that is not entirely...
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Eating as an Emotional Coping Aid
How worried should we be about the extra pounds we’re putting on while stuck at home? With the effects of the pandemic stretching on far longer than most people had any idea that it would, a lot of us have begun to worry about the extra pounds that we are putting...
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Coping with Depression
What are some things that can be done to help ease the effects of depression? Based on separate polling done in March by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Census Bureau, somewhere between a third and half of the American people are showing...
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Not All Anxiety is a Disorder
Are there ways of dealing with feelings of anxiety without going on medication? Anxiety is one of those terms that we all use but perhaps understand less than we know. We pepper our general conversation with expressions like “my anxiety level was off the charts” and...
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