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Comprehensive and accessible mental health support remains a major need for LGBTQI+ youth, with more than half of queer young people in the United States not receiving the mental health care they wanted last year. According to The Trevor Project’s national survey on mental health among LGBTQ+ youth in the US, 39% of LGBTQ+ young people have seriously considered suicide in the past year, including 46% of transgender and non-binary young people. The nonprofit Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services provides mental health, substance use disorder and suicide prevention services, including affirming services and resources for LGBTQI+ people. “We celebrate the…

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — According to USA Health’s Integrative Health and Wellness website, “food is medicine,” but creating that medicine requires cooking and good recipes. Nearly 200-year-old mobile home in downtown undergoes emergency repairs Dr. Robert Israel, an internal medicine physician with USA Health, appeared on WKRG News 5 to share one of these recipes and talk about the upcoming series of cooking classes. Dr. Israel shared her recipe for sweet potatoes with black beans and cheese on WKRG News the 4 on 5, adapted from a recipe by NYT Cooking and Sarah Jampel. Black Bean and Cheesy Sweet Potato…

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Municipality is training doctors and paramedics working at urban health promotion centres in mental health screening.Metropolitan health department officials hope that the move will help hundreds of mentally ill patients in the city get timely treatment.”Access to free treatment for mental health problems is part of the right to free essential health care,” said Sajna Maharjan, the department’s acting director. “Training doctors and paramedics to screen for mental health problems will help in timely diagnosis of problems and initiating early treatment.”At least 32 doctors and dozens of paramedics from the city government’s Urban Health Promotion Centers took…

Every game, when teams come in for their initial walkthroughs and warmups, it’s easy to tell where University of Michigan football quarterback JJ McCarthy is: All you have to do is look for the base of one of the pylons. And it turns out that opposing players had been trying to pick McCarthy’s mind for quite some time before the game — and they mostly succeeded. When asked on the Minnesota Vikings podcast if he’d rather walk barefoot through a foot of Minnesota snow or have his pregame ritual interrupted, McCarthy chose snow. That’s how important meditation is to him.…

Every game, when teams come in for their initial walkthroughs and warmups, it’s easy to tell where University of Michigan football quarterback JJ McCarthy is: all you have to do is look for the base of one of the pylons.And it turns out that opposing players had been trying to pick McCarthy’s mind for quite some time before the game — and they mostly succeeded.When asked on the Minnesota Vikings podcast if he’d rather walk barefoot through a foot of Minnesota snow or have his pregame ritual interrupted, McCarthy chose snow. That’s how important meditation is to him. But before…

An experimental study with non-meditating participants found that a 15-minute intensive meditation session blurred the boundaries between self and environment, consistent with the sense of disappearing bodily boundaries reported by meditators. Some practitioners report feeling the boundaries of their body disappear during meditation, and when asked about the root cause of this experience, they say it is due to a sense of letting go of the need to protect themselves and feeling more connected to the world around them.This concerns peripersonal space (PPS), a dynamic multisensory representation of the space around the body that is influenced by internal and external…

Summer is full of sweet temptations and sugary drinks, so finding better-for-you options is key to staying healthy. Misinformation and “healthwashing” — misleading marketing that gives the false impression that certain foods are healthy — are more prevalent than ever. Athletech News has rounded up five healthy food and drink brands that will make it easier than ever to cut down on sugar, improve your gut health, and get more protein into your daily routine. Credit: Supergut Supergut is a gut-focused brand that offers a variety of products, including bars, shakes, and prebiotic mixes. Fight off summertime sweet tooth temptations…

A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) specialist gives acupuncture treatment to a patient at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic of Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 26, 2024. (Photo by Van PovXinhua)”TCM has become popular in Cambodia because it is effective and safe in treating many illnesses,” Than Sokun, director of the Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital, told Xinhua. “In just over two years, more than 20,000 Cambodians have received TCM treatment.”PHNOM PENH, June 27 (Xinhua) — Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is becoming increasingly popular among patients in Cambodia due to its efficacy and safety.At the Traditional…

Lori Greinawi, left, and Hugh Brady, of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Northwest Suburban Committee, protested Tuesday outside the Wheeling Township office in Arlington Heights. Steve Zalusky/szalusky@dailyherald.com About 30 protesters stood outside Wheeling Township headquarters in Arlington Heights on Tuesday, calling on township leaders to finally fund a mental health board established by voters more than 18 months ago. But when they later presented their request to the town board, they were largely ignored. Hugh Brady, a member of the National Mental Health Alliance’s Chicago Northwest Suburban Committee, protested outside its Wheeling Township office in Arlington Heights on Tuesday.…

1. Introduction There is growing interest in the application of mindfulness meditation (MM) for the management of symptoms associated with neurological conditions (Pickut et al., 2013; Smart et al., 2016, 2021; Smart and Segalowitz, 2017; Bachmann et al., 2018; Poissant et al., 2019; Shim et al., 2020). Briefly, MM encompasses multiple practices, all of which emphasize intentionally becoming aware of and directing one’s attention to specific aspects of one’s present moment experience non-judgmentally (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1985). The literature on neural/cognitive changes in healthy populations presents a foundation on which to explore the application to persons with neurological disorders (Smart,…