Another misconception is that there is a causal link between creativity and mental illness. While many individuals living with mental illness might be highly creative, there are equally as many who would not be described that way at all – by themselves or others.Instead, I would argue that creativity is healing and restorative whether we…
You’ve got to have friends. That’s what friends are for. You can always count on me. Many songs and many movies extoll friendship. I extoll friendship, you probably do too, we all do. Friendships are important but are hard to come by and keep. Are friendships harder to keep these days? Studies say “yes”: over…
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) have developed what they are calling a “highly accurate, portable, yet user-friendly, affordable and non-invasive device for detecting oral cancer in resource-constrained clinical settings.” (Image above of Professor Suman Chakraborty and his student Arka Bhowmik on the left and their affordable, non-invasive device on the right)…
If you think that getting a firm and sculpted chest is something that you can achieve only when you have all the gym equipment or have a gym membership, then this article is for you? Sit tight and read this article till the end where we have compiled a few at-home chest exercises that require…
People dream of attaining toned washboard abs when they think of reducing weight. We’re sorry to break it to you that doing hundreds of crunches every day isn’t the right approach to lose belly fat. In fact, there aren’t any exercises that help with spot removal, especially from the belly. So, here are a few…
Dear Parents, When we set out to bring a new life into the world, mental illness isn’t the first thing we think about. Instead, we prepare for months, reading tons of books, magazines and blogs about how to breastfeed our baby, how to get them to sleep through the night, and how to make sure…
What Does it Mean to be Your Authentic Self? Being authentic isn’t difficult but does take practice (as with everything in life). To be authentic, you must have a keen awareness of who you indeed are, including what you care about, believe in, and stand for. An authentic person, for example, says and does things…
Type 1 Bipolar is my diagnosis but I try not to let the label get to me too much. I definitely think about it on a daily basis, but I’m not embarrassed or ashamed of it anymore like I was back when I was first diagnosed in 2006. Sure, the self stigma is still there, but…
Your browser does not support the audio element. Hi there. This is Abs, and I am going to sit with you for a bit while we get this anxiety under control. If it helps, you can close your eyes and hear my voice, or, if you’d prefer, you can read along on your screen. Before…
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself—a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have. I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately. It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get…