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.
Research now shows dogs tend to age better when they have plenty of interaction with humans and other pets, according to a study published in the journal Evolution, Medicine & Public Health.
Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said in reports released Tuesday evening.
Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
