NPR News: Even Famous And Successful Black Women Can Encounter Serious Pregnancy Complications

Even Famous And Successful Black Women Can Encounter Serious Pregnancy Complications
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, about the fact that black mothers have a higher mortality rate than white mothers.

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Hair Pulling, Nail Biting, Skin Peeling and Biting

All my life I’ve bitten my nails. It’s caused me a lot of trouble, especially with my bipolar mother who has always thought screaming and shouting at me (and often a smack when I was younger) would make me stop.At around 7 I also started biting and peeling the skin on my fingers which has caused a lot of social and health issues for me from being to ashamed to join in with prayers at school, to getting my fingers getting a fungal infection causing long lasting damage to my fingers.Soon after I started to pull out the tiny hairs on my legs during school assembles and by 12 I began to pull my eyebrow hair out.How can I stop doing this to myself? I don’t even realise I’m doing it half the time (I started biting the skin around my fingers just writing this and caused it to bleed a little). I’m afraid to bring this up with my parents because of how they have reacted in the past and I’m far too embarrassed to ask anyone I would typically trust. It has severally impacted how I interact with …

Painful Memories Evoke More Intense Emotions in Those With Depression

People with major depressive disorder (MDD) experience more intense negative emotions while recalling painful memories compared to non-depressed people, according to a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.And although those with MDD were able to turn down their negative emotions about as well as non-depressed people, they used different brain circuits to do so.The new findings pinpoint brain differences in MDD associated with the processing of autobiographical memories — one’s memories of personal events and knowledge of one’s life — that help us develop our sense of self and guide our interactions with the world around us.“This study provides new insights into the changes in brain function that are present in major depression,” said journal editor Cameron Carter, M.D. “It shows differences in how memory systems are engaged during emotion processing in depression and how people with the disorder must regulate these systems i…

New video by FDMX Fitness on YouTube

TRX Back and Shoulder workout
Here we are back with the TRX Suspension trainer for a back and shoulder workout! We will be wearing our polar h7 heart rate monitors, to keep track of our heart rate zones and calories burned. We will be doing the following exercises in this TRX workout video 1. TRX Shoulder press 2. TRX Low Rows 3. TRX W-Drills/ TRX L-Drills 4. TRX Mid Rows 5. TRX Shoulder press 6. TRX High Rows 7. TRX W-Drills/ TRX L-Drills 8. TRX Mid Rows Be sure to check out all of our TRX workout videos at http://ift.tt/2n62Kj3

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