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Mental Health
Headaches
Everyone knows what it's like to get a headache. Often striking when we're feeling stressed, tired, or emotionally upset, the all-too-familiar throbbing pain and nagging pressure feel like they'll never go away. But there are ways to prevent and relieve headaches. Read on to get the "heads up" on head pain. And while you're at it, look for our tip on medicine cabinet cleaning - you probably need to get this off your chest!
Mental Health menu
Depression
- Beating the blues with exercise
- Brain food for thought
- Depression
- Depression: what is it?
- Depression: treatment
Sleep disorders
- Growth hormones and the effect on sleep
- Nine rules of sleep hygiene
- Overcoming insomnia
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sleep patterns and aging
Stress
- 27 ways to ease up
- Breathe in life: yoga exercises to do at home
- Goosebumps and other hair-raising stress reactions
- Ha! Laughing is good for you!
- How to take a bite out of stress
Research news
- Study: Bad marriage raises stress levels for men and women
- Study: Cognitive behavioural therapy may be as effective as medication
- Study: Diabetes, depression together increases death risk
- Study: Depression and diabetes combination can be deadly
- Study: Depression raises risk of Alzheimer's and dementia
Health features
- Addictions Close Up
- Bedroom Makeover: Create a Sleep Sanctuary
- Cancer: Coping Tips
- Commuter Stress
- Complementary Medicine
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About this channel
Mental health has long been a subject nobody has wanted to talk about, except jokingly or nervously. But it affects all of us – not just the tens of thousands of Canadians diagnosed with schizophrenia, not even just the one-quarter of Canadians with high chronic stress. Your mental health is as important as your physical health. Find out more about taking care of it.