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For roughly 38 percent of women diagnosed, postpartum depression becomes a lifelong condition, according to a 2014 report published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
In the moment when a doctor is prescribing pain-relief pills to an older patient, the physician might not go into the nitty-gritty details of using opioids, because they assume only young patients are at risk.
“People have many beliefs about benefits from it, but there’s very little research to support any of the proposed benefits. This is partly, perhaps even mainly, because controlled studies in a laboratory have not yet been done.”
“These are very difficult things for girls to talk about. We were thinking, ‘We can normalize this conversation. We can give girls words to use, we can tell them some of the things they’re thinking about are absolutely normal, all the things that make young girls feel like, I’m a freak.’”
Talking to kids about porn requires parents to go beyond setting internet filters or telling kids to abstain from looking at sexually explicit content, strategies that aren’t foolproof themselves.
Compared with both currently married and previously married people, lifelong single people stay in touch with their siblings and parents more and socialize with their friends and neighbors more.
Play can “promote positive feelings like joy and excitement, which can bolster mood and diminish anxiety and sadness,” while insufficient playtime has been shown to increase symptoms of depression, anxiety, inattention, and conduct problems in students.
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With new tools and technologies now available to help identify where and how health misinformation spreads, evidence is building that the health misinformation we encounter online can motivate decisions and behaviors that actually make us more susceptible to disease.
In Dutch schools that use the country’s most popular sex-ed curriculum, yearly lessons begin with 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds talking about differences between male and female bodies, learning about reproduction, and discovering their own sexual likes, dislikes, and boundaries. Third-graders learn about love, including how to be kind to your crush. Before middle school, children get lessons on sexual diversity, gender identity, deciding when to have sex, and how to use barriers and contraceptives. All along, students are schooled in healthy relationships and how to reject gender-role stereotypes.
