Category: Mental

Medical, Mental, Physical, Wellness

Interventions: The Road to a Better You

An intervention is the process or action of intervening to improve a situation. It is a combination of program elements or strategies designed to produce behavior changes or improve the health status of an individual. They can sway someone to seek help for alcoholism, drug abuse, compulsive eating, over spending, and a plethora of other addictions. Interventions are usually performed by people who are closest … Continue reading Interventions: The Road to a Better You

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The Mental Impacts of Stuttering

Stuttering is a multifaceted disorder than can have a significant impact on social, emotional, and psychological issues. This is largely due to people’s reactions to those who stutter; these people may not understand that stuttering is a break in fluent speech that cannot be controlled. According to Beth Gilbert of PsychCentral, stuttering is characterized by sound, syllable, and phrase repetitions; hesitations; fillers; and revisions in … Continue reading The Mental Impacts of Stuttering

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Get Your Life Back With Bariatric Surgery

Sterling Center Bariatrics affords patients a second chance. For some, it is the chance to start over; for others, it is the chance to save their lives. Marissa Phillips, a 25-year-old accountant from Homerville, Georgia, is one of those success stories. Phillips underwent a gastric sleeve procedure in June 2017. The procedure works by removing over half of the stomach and then sewing the remaining … Continue reading Get Your Life Back With Bariatric Surgery

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Children, Lifestyle, Mental, Wellness

No Play Equals a Dull Day

Do you believe video games teach your children to be violent menaces to society? Do you think that video games don’t allow for a positive influence on your children? If you nodded in confirmation, allow me to challenge your skepticism. Video games host a plethora of cognitive benefits to anyone that plays them, regardless of the common misconceptions that they influence anti-social behaviors and desensitize … Continue reading No Play Equals a Dull Day

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VSU Offers a New Program for Health Sciences Students

Valdosta State University is offering a new Health Sciences bachelor’s degree program for their College of Nursing and Health Sciences students starting fall 2018. Chuck Conner, the program director, and LaGary Carter, the associate dean of the school of Health Sciences, are excited to have this new program bring more educational opportunities to their students. The program itself took about a year and a half … Continue reading VSU Offers a New Program for Health Sciences Students

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