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Beyond Adversity: Navigating the Path of Post-Traumatic Growth

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Life’s challenges and traumatic experiences can serve as catalysts for personal growth and resilience. Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) is a phenomenon where individuals navigate adversity and emerge with newfound strength, awareness, and compassion. While acknowledging the normalcy of initial distress, embracing the potential for growth can lead to profound positive transformations. Understanding Post-Traumatic Growth Post-traumatic growth […]

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What It Feels Like to Wake up During Surgery: 'It Was Like a Nightmare'

What It Feels Like to Wake up During Surgery: ‘It Was Like a Nightmare’

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Surgeons perform procedures for patients after administering general anesthesia. Patients slip into a deep sleep with little or no knowledge of the surgical procedure. On rare occasions, patients wake up during surgery. This condition is called anesthesia awareness. This condition is generally traumatic.  What is Anesthesia Awareness   Anesthesia awareness is a condition where patients under

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What Causes PTSD? Here's What Happens to the Brain After Trauma

What Causes PTSD? Here’s What Happens to the Brain After Trauma

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According to the National Alliance for Mental Health, approximately 10 percent of women and 4 percent of men will develop post-traumatic stress disorder during the course of their lifetimes. Both men and women who’ve experienced sexual assault, terrorist attacks or violent crimes are at higher risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder. What is PTSD? Post-traumatic

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What Happens When You Take Ibuprofen Daily.

What Happens When You Take Ibuprofen Daily

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Sold under different brand names Motrin, Ibuprin, and Advil, Ibuprofen is a drug used to relieve inflammation, swelling, and pain. It belongs to a group of drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). You can purchase Advil or Motrin over-the-counter in 200mg tablets although higher doses require a prescription.Most people tend to think that drugs

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Natural and Alternative Treatments for PTSD Recovery

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Natural and Alternative Treatments for PTSD Recovery

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, more commonly called PTSD, is a mental health issue that affects some people after witnessing or experiencing a horrible event. A car accident, sexual assault, war combat, and natural disasters are common causes of the troubling emotional disorder. Fortunately, a number of alternative therapies are showing remarkable promise when it comes

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Could You Have PTSD? 5 Signs and Symptoms That You Should Know

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often receives a lot of press when it comes to soldiers returning from war. You might have even seen movies where a former soldier struggles with nightmares and flashbacks of the trauma that they endured. While the ravages of war are a common cause of PTSD, you should also be aware

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9 Weird Psychotherapy Methods that You Didn’t Know Exist!

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[nextpage title=”…”] 9 Weird Psychotherapy Methods that You Didn’t Know Exist! Psychotherapy isn’t what most believe it to be. While a certain stigma still exists, psychotherapy and other mental health professions are valid means of taking care of yourself. Psychotherapy exists as a professional relationship between the therapist and the patient. The goal is strictly to

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How Technology Can Reduce The Anxiety Surrounding Child Custody Communication

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Custody issues are stressful enough, having to communicate with your spouse or former spouse over them can be a minefield. Being expected to communicate and coordinate schedules with someone that you may have a contentious relationship is at times difficult and at other times impossible. Fortunately technology is available to make communications and coordination easier,

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Anxiety and Divorce: Holiday Style

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Going through a divorce is tough, really tough. Going through a divorce during the holidays is excruciating. Everything you have known about the holidays changes, and if you have children it is complicated exponentially. There are few situations that inspire more anxiety than figuring holiday schedules for children and planning how you will fill the

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Anxiety and the Infertility Rollercoaster

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Many people all around us are struggling with infertility. Infertility can a silent hell. People do not talk about infertility issues like they would if they had a physical condition or other stressful circumstance in their life. Many times a couple choose to walk the road of infertility alone, discussing it only with their doctor.

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