In an undergraduate class I’m tutoring, we recently discussed the definition of health, and one of the first suggestions from the class emphasized that health encompasses not only physical health, but also mental and emotional wellbeing.
Read MoreAlzheimer's and Our Sense of Loss: A Very Personal Affair
The post I write today is personal. And it is about an experience that is becoming increasingly personal for a growing number of people and families, globally. This post concerns the growing prevalence of Alzheimer's among our elderly.
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Finding 'Truth' in Psychiatric Diagnoses
We've all encountered mental illness in some form or another. Maybe someone in your family suffers from depression, or someone from your school was rumoured to by “crazy”, or perhaps you are convinced that the homeless man on the sidewalk who yells a lot has schizophrenic paranoid delusions
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