Tips for Talking to a Loved One Who Has Depression

These tips will help the conversation go smoothly.

With depression affecting approximately 9.5% of American adults in a given year, knowing how to help someone with depression is an important skill to have. But before you can help, you first need to the right way to talk with a friend or loved one whom you feel may be depressed.

Because the very nature of depression causes people to shut down and withdraw emotionally, it may be especially important that you reach out to them to talk about...

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Embracing Imperfection: Our Scars Tell the Story

The Japanese have a form of art known as Kintsugi. This entails a piece of broken pottery being repaired with either gold or silver. The gold or silver is placed in the cracks of the broken pottery and in some cases whole pieces are replaced with one of the two. This technique embraces the imperfection or flaw in an object. Such as how we should embrace our own imperfections, flaws, or scars. Because those scars tell our stories.

As with the gold enhancing the pottery our scars enhance us....

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source https://psychcentral.com/blog/our-scars-tell-the-story/

Tips for Talking to a Loved One Who Has Depression

These tips will help the conversation go smoothly.

With depression affecting approximately 9.5% of American adults in a given year, knowing how to help someone with depression is an important skill to have. But before you can help, you first need to the right way to talk with a friend or loved one whom you feel may be depressed.

Because the very nature of depression causes people to shut down and withdraw emotionally, it may be especially important that you reach out to them to talk about...

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Embracing Imperfection: Our Scars Tell the Story

The Japanese have a form of art known as Kintsugi. This entails a piece of broken pottery being repaired with either gold or silver. The gold or silver is placed in the cracks of the broken pottery and in some cases whole pieces are replaced with one of the two. This technique embraces the imperfection or flaw in an object. Such as how we should embrace our own imperfections, flaws, or scars. Because those scars tell our stories.

As with the gold enhancing the pottery our scars enhance us....

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Mid-Life Chronic Inflammation Tied to Frailty in Old Age

Chronic inflammation in midlife is associated with a greater risk of frailty and overall poorer health in old age, according to a new Johns Hopkins study of nearly 6,000 Americans.

The findings, published in The Journal of Gerontology, found that each standard deviation of higher inflammation detected in midlife was linked to a 39 percent higher risk of frailty in participants over two decades later. The link was found to be stronger among whites than African-Americans.

Overall, the...

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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/04/27/mid-life-chronic-inflammation-tied-to-frailty-in-old-age/134951.html

Best of Our Blogs: April 27, 2018

Are you more sensitive than your friends? If you can’t brush off a joke or negative comment, the usual reaction is to blame yourself or escape the feeling. In other words, “fight or flight.” But what if there was a different way.

In moments when you’re feeling down, it’s worth it to dig into the feeling. Why did this particular statement hurt? Is it about this person or someone in your past who made you feel this way?

Feelings are always trying to tell us something. Whether it’s...

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source https://psychcentral.com/blog/best-of-our-blogs-april-27-2018/

Mid-Life Chronic Inflammation Tied to Frailty in Old Age

Chronic inflammation in midlife is associated with a greater risk of frailty and overall poorer health in old age, according to a new Johns Hopkins study of nearly 6,000 Americans.

The findings, published in The Journal of Gerontology, found that each standard deviation of higher inflammation detected in midlife was linked to a 39 percent higher risk of frailty in participants over two decades later. The link was found to be stronger among whites than African-Americans.

Overall, the...

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