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• Real loneliness can do serious damage

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 116
  Guardian This is a piece about psychology. It highlights the problems caused by being alone. Human beings are social animals – that is the way we evolved. But thanks to greater mobility, family fission, and other social pressures more and more of us live alone. And this is not good for us. The British very early ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shock as Government Report Claims Schizophrenia is ‘Epidemic’ Amongst Africans in Britain

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 587
  The liberal academic community is in shock this week after a Government Department of Health report claimed that schizophrenia runs at “epidemic” proportions amongst Africans living in Britain. The Department of Health’s (DH) New Horizons in Mental Health strategy document says that Africans are nine times ...
  2 weeks ago

• Being Alone and Stressed May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 532
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• Childhood traumas linger as health risk factors for adults

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 444
  We know that childhood trauma is one of the best predictors for adult mental illness, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, dissociative disorders, and so on. New research seems to indicate that it also increases the risk of other health issues. Childhood traumas linger as health risk factors for adults ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stress could increase breast cancer risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Washington, December 8 (ANI): Social isolation and related stress could be a factor in increasing human breast cancer risk, says a study.Researchers at the University of Chicago based their study on a rat model to identify environmental mechanisms contributing to cancer risk.Lead author Gretchen Hermes, a former ...
  3 weeks ago

• Isolation and Stress Up Risk for Breast CA

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 586
  A new study, albeit on a rodent model, finds that social isolation and related stress could contribute to human breast cancer susceptibility. University of Chicago researchers studied environmental mechanisms that could contribute to cancer risk and found that isolation and stress resulted in a 3.3-fold increase for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Childhood Abuse, Neglect Linked to Later Health Problems

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 586
  Researchers have found that adults who experienced early childhood abuse, neglect, social isolation or economic hardship were more likely to exhibit depression, chronic inflammation, and other markers related to increased health risks. The findings come from a long-term study of New Zealanders who have been tracked ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loneliness spreads like a virus

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 145
  Filed under: Happy Hour Hero (Our happy hour fact to amaze your pub-going pals with.) Loneliness is "infectious." A study of 5,000 adults in Massachusetts, USA conducted by researchers at multiple American universities found that people who feel lonely transmit this outlook to ... Read more   Permalink ...
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• Asian Lemming Syndrome

  
  The Asian Playboy on Interracial Dating & Empowerment — Authority: 120
  Are you focusing solely on academics and career in the hopes that youll get the girl "after youre successful?"Does your family discourage you from expressing your individuality?Do your parents forbid you from meeting girls?Then you might have Asian Lemming Syndrome.Lemmings are a race of curious creatures. Theyll ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loneliness spreads like a virus

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 540
  Filed under: Happy Hour Hero , Relationships (Our happy hour fact to amaze your pub-going pals with.) Loneliness is "infectious." A study of 5,000 adults in Massachusetts, USA conducted by researchers at multiple American universities found that people who feel lonely transmit this outlook to ... Read more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loneliness Spreads Like a Virus

  
  Asylum — Authority: 713
  Filed under: Health , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Loneliness is "infectious." A study of 5,000 adults in Massachusetts conducted by researchers at multiple American universities found that people who feel lonely transmit this outlook to ... Read ...
  3 weeks ago

• Animal Assisted Therapy

  
  The Marriage Counseling Blog — Authority: 127
  Making a real connection with those patients that are emotionally and or socially isolated is one of the great difficulties in therapy. It is in this area that animal assisted therapy has made such wonderful and helpful progress that ongoing studies are conducted in an effort to quantify the therapeutic results. ...
  5 weeks ago

• 100 Online Dating Sites

  
  Dating Tips and Advice — Authority: 145
  Internet communications make things easier for lots of people who suffer from a social isolation, and this trend is obvious in the large number of online dating sites. There are plenty of singles who find it difficult to get a relationship going for a number of reasons, and they feel a lot more comfortable to start a ...
  5 weeks ago

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