Be Well: How Therapy Sessions Can Boost Your Mental Health
Stigmas around mental health and wellness often keep people from seeking professional help from licensed therapists when they need it most. Dr. Olivia Verhulst, licensed mental health counselor, joined Cheddar News to talk about benefits therapy sessions can offer and who exactly should be seeking them out. "Therapy really is for everybody. There is this idea out there that you need a humdinger of a reason to come to therapy or a trauma or diagnosis but at the end of the day, the human condition is condition enough to seek therapy," she said.
Doctors in Taiwan made a surprising discovery when a 64-year-old female patient complained of a clicking and rustling sound in her ear, which turned out to be a spider.
Many DNA tests on the market offer a glimpse into what makes your individual character, including who your ancestors are and some can even analyze your risk for developing certain diseases. Cheddar News spoke with Sam Beeler, chief strategy officer with Nebula Genomics; Eleanor Griffith, a certified genetic counselor; and Dr. Neil Iyengar, a medical oncologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center about the process involved in checking DNA and its effectiveness.
A new study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry that involved 80 participants with moderate to severe depression found hot yoga could have some positive impacts on mental health.
