Word: mentalism
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...will ever accuse Carrie Fisher of holding back. Throughout her 30-year career, Fisher - the daughter of 1950s sweetheart Debbie Reynolds and crooner Eddie Fisher - has used her Hollywood childhood, drug addiction, mental illness and romantic failures as fodder for screenplays (Postcards from the Edge) and books (Surrender the Pink) Now the actress, 50, is on stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars...
...show and in no way a victim of anyone I'm discussing. Now, I had been giving speeches for a long time, and I'll try anything - usually they're things that are very bad for me. To both my horror and amusement I'm the poster girl for mental illness. So I had been going out and giving speeches about that for years. There was a lot of material that I was doing anyway, so now I do it in the show...
...Doesn't it make you uncomfortable to talk about your struggle with mental illness...
...disorders involve maladaptive or unhelpful, biased thinking,” she explains. Although the results from the first phase of the study are promising—patients showed significant improvement at the end of their CBT sessions—a lack of awareness about BDD, even amongst mental health clinicians, is of great concern to Wilhelm. “Many of these people suffer in silence,” she says. “It’s enormously helpful to get the word...
Physical activity leads to both physical and mental health, and, as a college bent on producing successful world citizens, Harvard can’t afford to ignore the body-mind connection. An August 2006 study in the journal “Stress & Health” found, in college students, a significant negative relationship between physical activity and perceived hassles/anxiety. As Wellesley College PE department chair Bridget Belgiovine said, “You’ve got to have an active body in order to continue to keep your mind rejuvenated.” Harvard students, whose day-to-day environment...