Word: mentalism
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...Galley Girl: What got you interested in the subject of mental illness...
...makeup. "It's not just about one person," she says on the last day of camp. "You want to encourage other people to do good so your team will all come together." Try as she might to be upbeat, however, Krystin can't quite hide her physical and mental exhaustion. Being 13, perky and perfect is tough, even for a cheerleader...
Christian Smith, a co-author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, says adolescent-specific church programs may be thriving, but his study of more than 3,000 teenagers left him wondering how deep the experiences were. "At 13," says Smith, "a lot of kids' mental and emotional lives are consumed by school, sports, media, maybe a boyfriend or girlfriend, so they don't have a lot of room for deeper thought." For many 13-year-olds, God is less an eternal truth than a friend helping them get through a really tough year...
...Cancer is as much a mental war as it is a physical war and this project is truly an emotional aspect of medicine,” Jernegan said. “For me to have the opportunity to see this level of expertise and what they’re trying to accomplish is comforting...
...that you have a problem. It's a problem of special interest to researchers because it reveals a lot about addiction as a whole. One of the difficulties in understanding drug or alcohol abuse is that the minute you add a chemical to the body, you muddy the mental processes. "It's hard to tease the connection out because you don't know how much is the drug and how much is the behavior," says Whyte. "But gambling is a pure addiction...