The additional hour of afternoon darkness may be particularly arduous for people who find themselves “weak to feeling down within the autumn and winter — which is an terrible lot of individuals,” mentioned Norman E. Rosenthal, a scientific professor of psychiatry on the Georgetown College Faculty of Medication who coined the time period “seasonal affective…

The dread units in round 4 p.m., because the solar inches nearer to the horizon and begins to wind down for the day. The tip of Daylight Saving Time each fall can really feel like one thing out of a Stephen King novel. We determined to speak to some consultants about how to deal with…

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It was Joanna Acevedo’s psychiatrist who first raised the thought of a weight-loss drug. Since 2018, Ms. Acevedo has relied on antipsychotic medicines to handle her bipolar dysfunction. The medication stored her paranoia at bay — actually, they stored her alive, she mentioned. Additionally they led her to achieve 70 kilos. By age 26, she…

The autumn and winter months typically sign the season of celebration and holidays. However for a lot of, the darker, colder days herald one other kind of interval: one in all fatigue, lethargy and melancholy. Seasonal affective dysfunction, or SAD — a kind of melancholy that happens with the altering of the seasons — can…

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Closure is a spectrum, and “fashionable exorcism strategies have a tendency to put much less emphasis on exterior elements and extra on inner therapeutic,” Ms. Alderson stated. “Sitting with adverse emotions can really feel uncomfortable within the second, however finally, it might probably permit for emotional therapeutic to happen, and there’s way more consciousness of…

Music remedy, whereas nonetheless a comparatively small discipline, has grown over the last decade. The follow helps folks deal with illnesses as wide-ranging as stress, power ache, restricted mobility and hypertension, and is carried out in quite a lot of settings, together with psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, senior facilities and colleges. Scientific research has begun…