Reading Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz’s “The Body Book (The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body)” is like listening to your soothing-voiced BFF explain the female anatomy, its quirks and concerns.
Robin Williams’ final gift to the world was to create a higher awareness of depression and mental health.
Let’s talk about depression. More than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression globally. It is a very real problem that is affecting and claiming the lives of friends and family, the rich and the poor, the young and old alike. It does not discriminate.
Brahma Kumaris (BK) is conducting a daylong retreat on Aug. 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 34 T. Gener St. corner Kamuning Road, Quezon City.
It’s been said that there is no health without mental health.
I had a meltdown the other week, as I like to call my occasional depressive episodes. I had been getting progressively sadder this past couple of weeks, for many reasons—not the least of which is the vitriol around me.
Newly crowned Miss International Kylie Verzosa has said the Philippines may be forgetting the mental aspect of drug addiction amid the government’s relentless war on drugs.
Millennials are constantly in motion. Masters of the art of being busy, they juggle everything—schoolwork, org commitments, family, friends, pets,...
Oh, I remember doing this a long time ago, purely for fun, in the mid-’80s. I would stare at a group of small cloud formations, and focus to dissolve one cloud using my mind. I would mentally command the cloud to disappear, and it would.
My childhood friend Bunny, bless her soul, knows exactly how to do it. When I fell into another clinical depression in 2014 after 12 years off medication—thanks to menopause, chemical imbalance, and the aftermath of a yearlong fight with breast cancer—I turned to my friends. I would call Bunny almost every night, sobbing at the least provocation, wondering why I was still alive.
