#social-support

#social-support

The friendship breakup has become a feature of modern life: Online, advice abounds on "how to aggressively confront, or even abandon, friends who disappoint us," Olga noted. But what if another solution exists? Instead of firing your friends, psychologists told her, it helps to expand your circle, allowing more people to provide you with different types of support or camaraderie: "Rather than resting on one pillar, healthy friendship is better imagined as crowd-surfing-many hands holding you up," Olga writes.

For this study, researchers Mable Ho and Esme Fuller-Thomson of the University of Toronto focused on those who were over 60 after participating in the three-year study. Their analysis of the data shows that we can put aside our 'gerascophobia' ( fear of aging) and look forward to many years of optimal health even if we experience a setback related to disease or injury. The secret is how healthy we were before the illness, and our lifestyle choices afterwards.

If you've gone through a divorce recently, you may be worried that you'll never find love again. Being in a painful marriage which ends in divorce can often leave women feeling unloved, or worse, unlovable. Feeling sad, lonely, rejected, and betrayed are all common reactions to separation and divorce but feeling unlovable can be one of the most painful. Here are a few things you can do to regain your sense of lovability.

In the preamble to the definition of PTSD, we write, these people have been exposed to an extraordinary event that's outside of normal human experience. So it turned out that this is not an unusual experience at all. One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time. I did the first study on Prozac for PTSD, the first study for Zoloft for PTSD.

"I was taken aback by the support I received, I wasn't expecting that level of support from people across the country, in English and Irish," she said speaking in Irish.

If it seems like the world is in crisis, it's because it is. Over 25% of Americans reported experiencing stress so severe they could not function.

People with steadfast religious beliefs not only identify strongly with a spiritual being, but also tend to socialize with others who share those beliefs.

Vulnerable beneficiaries are being left without essential support as charities across the UK are forced to scale back services or halt expansion plans due to surging operational costs.