What Is Anorexia? It's got a fancy Latin name: anorexia nervosa, "nervous want of appetite." It's a killer. One in 10 cases ends in death. People with anorexia starve themselves by eating far too little food. Eventually they become dangerously thin -- yet they still see themselves as fat. Peo...

Recently, I read that in some religions, it is felt that when a pet owner is ill, the animal can take on the illness to help in healing their owner. While many pet owners claim that their pets do make them feel better, there are still some skeptics. However, research studies show that pets do have a...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that mainly affects girls but boys can still suffer from it. Anorexia nervosa starts in the early teens and surveys suggest 1 per cent of school girls and uni students have anorexia nervosa. The disease is most common in the western part of the world and woman ...

Disabilities in Sport With more and more facilities and activities becoming accessible to people with disabilities, so to have they become more visible, at the same time the idea of exercise as both a preventative measure and a treatment for secondary conditions has increased within the health ca...

The main feature of any of the substances labeled psychedelic is the enhancement of experience. Psychedelics have even been described as "instant experience." These drugs seem to raise the level of respond to fine gradations of stimulus input, to enhance response to stimulation at the upp...

One of the most important developments in psychosocial approaches to emotional problems has been the success of cognitive therapy for depression. Evidence for the powerful efficacy of this approach has increased throughout the years, particularly in regard to its long-term outcome. Because it empl...

Many different drugs have very serious, complex negative effects on the person who is using that particular drug. Some of these drugs do actually have some positive effects. Drugs make the brain stimulated in certain places more than others, which are not as stimulated while not on any type of drug....

When it comes to trying to define our own "character," usually we attempt to define it based upon our own experiences and thoughts. But just as we all carry with us different experiences and ways of thinking, we all can derive slightly or sometimes even vastly different understandings of what char...

The Molding of Guy Haines Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train features two very different people. Guy Haines and Charley Bruno invade each others' lives the moment they meet on the train headed south. Even with their obvious differences it turns out that the two men are the two s...