Health for Life

In everyday activities, when your teens talk about their failures and mistakes, listen for a tendency to blame others or to give up too quickly. If your children aren’t doing well in school, do they hold responsible the teacher or say, “What’s the use”? If their school project turns out unpleasant, do [...]

I found an interesting story on ABC News.com yesterday, which profiles an Arizona man who suffered a sever traumatic brain injury which left him in a minimally-conscious state since a car accident May 30 of this year. Jesse Ramirez was in a coma and was being supported by water and feeding tubes for a little over a week before doctors told family members that Jesse would not recover.

A 12-step program is the fundamental tool of many recovery programs, regardless of the addiction, be it drugs, alcohol, gambling, relationships, etc. The basic 12 steps that groups’ members actively stress are as follows, varying in some degree per addiction recovery program. Note that no particular religion or spiritual affiliation is required. All [...]

Next month armywide educational programs will be given on post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries to every solder and leader, in an attempt to remove the current negative perception of seeking medical and psychological treatment for these diseases.

Organizing and planning are normal parts of everyday life. Why be organized? So you can spend less time looking for things, more time enjoying things and being more productive. So you can stop feeling anxious and overwhelmed when you can’t find something and feel overjoyed instead at knowing exactly where your possessions are! So you can get [...]