“You have to be mindful and focused on the moment. It does not leave much room to let your mind wonder on things that may be going on in your life — you have to focus on not falling,”
Source: Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression — ScienceDaily
Sounds promising and for some people a better alternative than drugs.
Yeah, I had to Google it too.
In both a 2014 white paper by IBM’s Smarter Workplace Institute and in a conference panel the company hosted just weeks ago, its own experts suggested that remote workers tend to be happier, less stressed, more productive, more engaged with their jobs and teams, and believe that their companies are more innovative as a result of flexible work arrangements.
Source: IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal
Memo to IBM:
Why?
Source: Spousal Suicide Ups Morbidity, Mortality in Surviving Partner and
Original JAMA Psych article is the second link.
The article has a link for the full HCHS data brief in pdf format.
Getting rid of belongings is generally seen as positive, even healthy—but when the need becomes compulsive, it can be a sign of a life-consuming disorder.
Source: Compulsive Decluttering: The Opposite of Hoarding – The Atlantic
OCD variants – Compulsive Decluttering or Obsessive Compulsive Spartanism. Puts the Tiny House movement in a different light, no?
“They can’t tolerate discomfort or having to struggle,” Dan Jones, director of counseling and psychological services at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, told the New York Times. “A primary symptom is worrying, and they don’t have the ability to soothe themselves.” In 2010, a national study showed that nearly half of college students seeking counseling had serious mental illness. Those students outnumbered a 2000 study by 100%.
via The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit.
Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers – NYTimes.com.
More Venlafaxine please.
About half of patients in the U.S. don’t take their medications as prescribed, including patients who have had heart attacks.
Daily Pill? No Thanks, I’ll Take Early Death | Medpage Today.
I actually started to write something really, really snarky but better judgement prevailed. Why even mention people who discontinue statin use without their physician’s knowledge, have a myocardial infarction and two drug eluting stents all while denying the MI ever occurred and maintaining belief that the second stent was not necessary?
Why write about the Standard offer for life coverage? I was asked to review the medical records for my opinion.
Standard? I think not.
You’re a Vegetarian. Have You Lost Your Mind? | Psychology Today.
The question however remains the same. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Just when you think you’ve got it figured out…
Update
http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/02/here-we-go-again-vegetarian-diets-and.html
Same author with a recent blog post.
I asked Peter Senge about that. How to try to live and work in a sane way when you’re in the middle of insanity: a voracious workplace that will eat you alive, friends and neighbors who raise eyebrows if you pull your kids out of some competitive activity. He gave some important advice: Create your own community, a network of like-minded people. Humans are wired to conform—that’s why these cultural pressures, however silly they may seem, wield such power over us. So find a group that fits your values that would make you happier to conform to.
via America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic.
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