The troubling rise of longevity fixation syndrome
This unofficial diagnosis describes the anxiety-driven, compulsive obsession with living as long as possible.
The personal rule of oneself occurs when one acts intentionally, with understanding and without controlling influences. Allowing others to maintain self-determination is essential in the doctor-patient relationship.
Self reflection is to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about one’s fundamental nature, purpose and essence; it is the capacity to contemplate the environment’s response to one’s stimulus value and to discern whether proper validation compels reinforcement or change of existing beliefs and/or behaviors.
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves.
Positive symptoms are symptoms present in a disorder, but not normally experienced by most individuals. They reflect excess or distortion of normal functions . For example, hallucinations are positive symptoms. Negative symptoms are functions that are normally found in healthy persons, but that are diminished or not present in affected persons. Thus, negative symptoms are something that has disappear from a person’s normal way of functioning.
Emotional intimacy is a deep biological need that effects all other areas of life. Everyone needs support and affection, needs the opportunity to express caring to others the range and intensity of emotions and needs to feel compassionate validation from another human being who can empathize with how it feels to be human.
Change can be exciting and motivating, particular in its early stages. Sustaining change can be difficult if it unbalances personal, familial or workplace equilibrium. While some changes concretize or normalize, others can remain an ongoing struggle. When fortune strikes, sustained achievement materializes to the point of seeming instinctive.
This unofficial diagnosis describes the anxiety-driven, compulsive obsession with living as long as possible.
The environment we grow up in can shape some aspects of our personality more than others.
Study looks at symptoms in midlife and if they signal greater vulnerability to dementia decades later.
The Department of Homeland Security’s push to detain and deport immigrants has led to high numbers of detainees and a need for more medical staff.
Experts recommend ways to respond to someone who expresses a desire not to have children.
Every autistic person has their own unique constellation of behaviors and characteristics.
The mental health program has become more robust with more than 500 psychological services professionals and several ways to assess athletes for mental health needs.
A new report from Common Sense Media found that more than a third of boys ages 11 to 17 have gambled in the past year.
Mental illnesses may be linked at the DNA level, as researchers identify shared genetic patterns.
Virtual learning means missing out on a different kind of education.
