With ’spring’ time just about ready to ’sprung’, it’s time to say goodbye to the bitter temperatures, the freezing snow. Time to get rid off those winter bundled layers and, for millions of us, time to get back to “normal” after a season of “SAD” - Seasonal Affective Disorder.
SAD, as in Seasonal Affective Disorder – What distinguishes SAD from other kinds of depressions is its link to the calendar. And what makes SAD unique is not only when it strikes, but also where.
Doctors find that SAD is about two-and-a-half times more common in Pennsylvania and north than it is in, say, Texas or Florida.
That might not be surprising. After all, in Miami winter feels an awful lot like summer. But researchers say it’s not really the temperature that keeps SAD at bay, it’s the light. Winter days in the south are longer than they are in the north.
A public talk on self-management strategies for seasonal affective disorder (SAD, or winter depression) given by Dr. Erin Michalak from the University of British Columbia at the annual meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (www.sltbr.org) in Vancouver, Canada.
Two 10 year old boys murdered a 3 year old child in Liverpool in 1993.
I remember in February 1993 when a young 3 yr old boy was taken from his mother in a shopping mall in Liverpool UK,by two 10-year-old boys. The 3 year old walked away from his mother for only a second and these 2 boys took his hand and led him out of the shopping Mall to his horrendous death. [click to continue…]
Apparently in a new guide for people seeking to change their working lives in 2010 – Counseling has been listed as being in the top 10 career opportunities.
Research showed that 1 in 4 people were unhappy with their careers and felt they would be better suited to another profession.
‘The term “privacy” means many things in different contexts. Different people, cultures, and nations have a wide variety of expectations about how much privacy a person is entitled to or what constitutes an invasion of privacy.
Internet privacy is the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information. These concerns include whether email can be stored or read by third parties without consent, or whether third parties can track the web sites someone has visited.‘ [click to continue…]
Cognitive Analytic Therapy involves a therapist and a client working together to look at what has hindered changes in the past, in order to understand better how to move forward in the present.
Questions like ‘Why do I always end up feeling like this?’ become more answerable. [click to continue…]
“It is becoming increasingly more often that I here of a thoroughly diabolical and non-senseical news headline…Naturally as humans we try to make sense of situations or events…That is until one becomes exposed to these kind of monstrosities.” [click to continue…]
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