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Living With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Between the ages of 12 and 14 I was afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, though I didn’t fully know it at the time. It wasn’t until years later in college when I was actually given time to think and reflect on it did I realize that it was, in fact, f̶u̶l̶l̶-̶s̶c̶a̶l̶e̶ c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶ t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶ full-blown…

Living With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Between the ages of 12 and 14 I was afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, though I didn’t fully know it at the time. It wasn’t until years later in college when I was actually given time to think and reflect on it did I realize that it was, in fact, f̶u̶l̶l̶-̶s̶c̶a̶l̶e̶ c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶ t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶ full-blown…

Austrian court snuffs out planned e-cigarette restriction

The government had proposed that sales of e-cigarettes be limited to the Alpine republic’s licensed tobacconists from October to protect young people and for public health reasons. The court ruled on Monday however, that the proposed amendment was unconstitutional, saying that the health arguments put forward were not solid enough to justify blocking the retailers’ right to trade freely and that e-cigarettes should not be treated the same as other

Pediatric brain injury may lead to attention problems

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Kids with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have more lapses in attention and longer reaction times than children who suffer trauma to other parts of the body, researchers report. Attention problems have been seen in adults after TBI. This study, however, is the first to show not just lapses of attention in children with TBI but also that these lapses are related to intelligence and

Sleep Is the Most Underrated Health Habit

The most basic shift we can make in redefining success in our lives has to do with our strained relationship with sleep.As Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer of the Cleveland Clinic, put it, “Sleep is the most underrated health habit.” Most of us fail to make good use of such an invaluable part of our lives.

Stop Exercising To Lose Weight

Exercise has forever been the go-to torture regimen for people trying to lose weight. It’s typically an acrimonious chore or insufferable extra in an already long day. More and more often, exercise requires a self-demoralizing offensive into a meat market filled with coveted six-packs and lavish hand-wash-only spandex. And in the end, it rarely…