Depression can be an insidious disease. Feelings of helplessness and worthlessness — major symptoms of depression — can also make it difficult for people to get the help they need. But public policies play a role as well, according to a new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
If you're the parent of a twenty-something, one of your biggest concerns is probably whether you child has health insurance. Currently, 14.8 million young adults were uninsured in 2009, an increase of more than a million over 2008, according to a report by The Commonwealth Fund. That represents one of the largest uninsured groups of Americans, the report says.
It wasn't supposed to happen. Not this soon. We're far fitter than our parents were at the same age. We exercise more, eat better, have more sex (okay, some of us do), and we believe our 50s are the new, hell, the new 30s! So it just wasn't supposed to happen.
We know the perils of being in the Sandwich Generation: stress, burnout, depression, even feelings of despair. But it doesn't have to be that way. New research found that helping loved ones can actually make you healthier.
Losing a child is a parent's worst nightmare. And when the parent is a celebrity, everyone feels entitled to weigh in on what should be the most personal of tragedies. That was the case last year when John Travolta and Kelly Preston's 16-year-old son Jett died of a seizure. Now the news that Preston is pregnant again at 47 is bound to fire up talk again.