University Study: Facebook is Bad for Your Mental Health

UH study links Facebook use to depressive symptoms. Findings suggest amount of time spent and social comparison on Facebook impacts mental health.

The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective tool for connecting with new and old friends. However, some users may find themselves spending quite a bit of time viewing Facebook and may inevitably begin comparing what's happening in their lives to the activities and accomplishments of their friends.

According to University of Houston (UH) researcher Mai-Ly Steers, this kind of social comparison paired with the amount of time spent on Facebook may be linked to depressive symptoms. Steers' research on the topic is presented in the article, "Seeing Everyone Else's Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms" published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Germanwings plane crash: major media cover-up

Jon Rappoport

“When systemic fraud reaches a certain level where collapse of some basic institution is inevitable, the powers that be invent a different storyline. They tell an outright fairy tale and keep pushing it. They’ll even stage events that confirm the fairy tale. Anything to avoid the truth that would disintegrate the whole structure. For example: the structure called Psychiatry.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) 

Airbus A 320 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. Crashed in French Alps. All 150 aboard killed. Pilot Andreas Lubitz flew the plane into a mountain. Lubitz had seen a psychiatrist for depression. 

Major media cover the story from several angles. 

Should airline personnel have known one of its pilots was suffering from depression? Did they know? Did they cover it up, or ignore it? 

These media outlets studiously ignore the elephant in the room: the drugs used to treat depression.

Are Smartphones Becoming a Substitute for Thinking?

Alex Pietrowski

Our smartphones are like a wealth of information at our fingertips. They help us find directions to new restaurants, offer information about the places we want to visit, and can instantly answer any question about whatever inquiry fills the mind. But are we getting lazy and avoiding thinking about things that we might already know?

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo asked just that same question and conducted three studies with a total of 600 participants. The study categorized the subjects by measuring their cognitive style, ranging from intuitive to analytical, and it also evaluated verbal and numerical skills. The study also analyzed the participants’ device usage habits.

Parental Incarceration Can Be Worse for a Child Than Divorce or Death of a Parent

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With more than 2 million people behind bars, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This mass incarceration has serious implications for not only the inmates, but their children, finds a new University of California-Irvine study.

The study found significant health problems, including behavioral issues, in children of incarcerated parents and also that, for some types of health outcomes, parental incarceration can be more detrimental to a child's well-being than divorce or the death of a parent. 

Rosemary and Lavender Oils Affect Cognition and Mood Differently

Heather Callaghan

Ancient Greeks held essential oils in the highest esteem, believing that rosemary oil in particular could improve memory. In the 15th century, rosemary was believed to be a disinfectant. The documented clinical use of essential oils for mood-disorders goes back to 1920s Europe. Throughout the centuries, people have reported the same effects for the same oils.

In the last decade, researchers who hadn't often officially studied essential oils, wanted to know - Is this just a belief? Or do these claimed far-reaching complex oils produce an actual biological shift?

In a controlled blind study in 2003, published in International Journal of Neuroscience, researchers not only confirmed one wide belief about rosemary oil, but unwittingly showed the importance of knowing the recommended uses of oils like lavender.

Truth Does Not Fear Those Who Fear Truth

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Michelle Marie Angel
Global Illumination Council
  
When one is attuned to and aligned with Truth, there is no fear that comes with awareness of Truth that is revealed. It is considered as relevant intelligence for decision-making. Our higher choices depend on it. Nor is there any fear in telling the truth. Our integrity depends on it.

Some may naturally react with judgment towards information that has been revealed regarding some group or individual. The feeling of being deceived or manipulated carries emotion that may roll one off balance for a moment or a period of time. But as we evolve, we realize that balance will occur naturally. We are called to respond rather than react.

Our response is more benevolent and beneficial when it comes from a higher vibration. If we strive to practice coming from love and forgiveness, we transcend the states of consciousness that caused the unethical, corrupt, and malevolently designed patterns in society to begin with. Furthermore, when we stabilize higher states of being, we activate deeper perceptions that allow us to know truth when we are exposed to it. We become less and less likely to be deceived or manipulated.

Pharming for the Future

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Whatever you put in to something is what you’re going to get out of it.  This is true in all phases of life: investing, exercise, work, and most importantly, diet.

What is your diet?  Well, before you start thinking that you are not on a diet let’s define diet, “food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health”. So in other words we are all “on a diet”. My question is: what exactly are we eating, and why?

It is past the time for people to start asking some serious questions of themselves and their habits.

People have to start realizing that there is a long chain of lies, loaded with media hype and fabricated information. The system works to benefit corporations, at the expense of our future health.

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans had mental illness in 2009

Editor's Note: Judging by the state of the republic -- obviously.

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CNBC

CHICAGO - More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on Thursday.

Young adults aged 18 to 25 had the highest level of mental illness at 30 percent, while those aged 50 and older had the lowest, with 13.7 percent, said the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA.

The rate, slightly higher than last year's 19.5 percent figure, reflected increasing depression, especially among the unemployed, SAMHSA, part of the National Institutes of Health, said.

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