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Sex Addiction – How To Keep It From Taking Over Your Life Sex addiction, or hypersexual disorder, is a disorder in which thoughts that are sexual in nature are ever-increasing, and ever-necessary to the individual dealing it with. So much so, in fact, that the addiction itself, and the thoughts and ideas that go along…
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Therapy Podcasts continue to make headway. from Mark Marron to Gilmartin the later of of whom Mark Winch writes about: How Self-Help Podcasts Are Helping People Therapy Cannot. Are self-help podcasts the new group therapy? here). Gilmartin’s podcast quickly touched a nerve, as within its first year it amassed over one million downloads (over 8…
Whether you’ve experienced it many times, or just once, somehow the face of grief in any serious loss hits us all just as hard, every time it comes up. It is the natural response to a deep loss of any kind, and even though we tend to think of grief mostly when someone we love…
Betrayal is often one of the deepest reasons we find ourselves in the midst of divorce. It can break trust indefinitely, while stirring up deep, raw emotions we didn’t even realize we could have. Whether the betrayal arises because of infidelity, lies, or something completely unique and personal, it is a hard concept to accept,…
Dreams have been present since the dawn of man, as a natural occurrence that happens when we sleep. Dreams are mentioned multiple times in the historical tales of the Bible, through classic literature, and have been the subject of many scientific studies. Everyone dreams, including animals, and they are a seemingly ‘involuntary’ operation. But, there…
When you think of Silicon Valley, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The high-tech world? Apps, startup companies, or maybe even Facebook? The one thing linking those ideas together in Silicon Valley is the idea of wealth – fame and fortune seems to run rampant throughout the area, with bundles of money being…
Did you know that the pain arthritis sufferers experience can actually make arthritis spread to other joints?
We live in fear of global warming, economic disaster and nuclear war, though not necessarily in that order.
The dangers of old-fashioned pesticides like arsenic, and more modern ones like chlorpyrifos (marketed as dursban and malathion), have led to a new generation of pesticides heralded as safe for mammals and birds.
The commercial, featuring a now-familiar perky blond actress called Janice Dickenson, shows Dickerson flashing a blinding smile and saying, “For a good clean feeling, no matter what.” Last week, that line set off my interior alarm. No matter what, I asked myself? Does that include fire, plague, civil unrest, Armageddon, serious illness or imminent death?…
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on the effects of xenoestrogens, so the headline from the Globe and Mail wasn’t that shocking.
At one time or another, I imagine almost everyone in the U.S. over the age of 18 has checked out an online dating site like Match.com (NASDAQ:IACI – $17.11) or eHarmony (a private company).
In the smallish town of Woburn, Massachusetts, three men have gone on trial for murder in the past few weeks.
In 2002, Michael Crichton wrote a fiction thriller called Prey, which highlights the dangers of nanotechnology.
Former Hewlett Packard (HPQ $41.27) CEO Carly Fiorina might have blown her chances of being Senator McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate after she told reporters that, as McCain’s campaign advisor, she’s been getting a lot of comments from women who are upset at the unfairness that many health plans cover Viagra (PFE $17.79) but not…
In 2001, Maureen Stout came out with a book called, The Feel Good Curriculum; The Dumbing Down of America’s Kids.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, have been pressuring manufacturers like Dupont (DD – $47.21) and 3M (MMM – $75.22, formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) for years to replace their toxic coatings containing PFOAs (a type of PFC) with more environmentally-friendly substitutes.
This week in Discovery Magazine online, scientists report observing same-sex parents entering into enduring relationships to raise communal albatross young.
Scott Belsky from Behance recently spoke at The Feast about making good ideas happen. The following 10 suggestions would be helpful to anyone in a creative field:
Photo: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com, Creative Commons, Flickr I recently wrote an article on a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of patients to sue over defective medical devices if the item has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Washington Post recently published an article, later picked up by MSNBC, on the fact that health insurance companies are now targeting patient’s electronic prescription records as a quick, easy and relatively inexpensive way to evaluate a person’s insurability. Gone are the days of contacting a physician’s office or hospital business center and speaking with…
Scientists have reported discovering living and fully viable bacteria in the ice of a Greenland glacier. The bacteria, called Chryseobacterium Greenlandensis, is one of about 10 new species found in melting polar ice and glaciers, and has survived more than 120,000 years in extreme cold and pressure in an oxygen-reduced atmosphere with limited food supply.…
On March 28, the New York Times reported that a cancer study, conducted by Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College in 2006, was funded in part by a little-known charity (the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment) whose proceeds are derived almost entirely from the Liggett Group, a cigarette maker.…
Disposable DiapersThe safest and most time-proven diapering method is the venerable cloth diaper. Following are the top five reasons you should use cloth: 1. Cloth Diapers are better for the environment: Andrea, a nurse practitioner at Tribeca Pediatrics in Manhattan says, “In a given day, if I see thirty patients, I might see two people…