- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health Problems Quotes
Mind, body, and the systems behind wellbeing.
These health problems quotes look past symptoms to the systems around them — psychiatry's uneasy relationship with the social side of mental illness, and why treating it seriously is a matter of Care, not just biology.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.
- Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.
- Efficacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from the stereotype that psychodynamic treatments are appropriate only for the 'worried well,' a growing body of evidence points to their efficacy in dealing with the most pressing mental health problems of our time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no single cause of homelessness, and vulnerable people, those with mental health problems and addictions for example, need support not punishment.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020