Category: Narratives
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Snooping in the Time of Social Network: Is Jealousy Evolving?
How would you feel if, after snooping on your partner’s social network account, you read a message (sent by your partner) that went: “You must be my soulmate! I feel so bloody connected to you, even though we haven’t slept together xxxx.” In this time of social network, has this emotion changed between men and…
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Not All Quitters are Losers: Kicking the Smoking Habit Early
The point of cigarette smoking is nicotine, the known addictive substance that gives smokers the ‘high’ just seconds after a single puff. Or, for the young, perhaps another reason is merely to be ‘in’ among peers or be like those on TV commercials, cool and hip. They get the nicotine kick just the same. Nicotine…
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Self-defense or recreation: Increasing firearms violence changes landscape of gun industry
Many people from the United States have decided to arm themselves with guns these days, wary of the rampant crimes involving such weapons. In fact, around 100,000 Americans are injured or killed from firearm violence every year. In a recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers further discovered a shift in…
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Confusion over coconut oil: What gives?
The use of coconut oil has not sparked a debate nor created confusion among the people in this part of the world who have just every use for it and who consider the only species of the genus Cocos the ‘tree of life,’ until recently when they heard their precious oil “isn’t healthy and it’s…
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On International Day, UN says widows’ rights to independent life, livelihood after loss must be ensured
Whether they are single, married, separated or widowed, women must be able to enjoy the inviolable right that they are not dependent on anyone, the United Nations has said, marking International Widow’s Day. “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on all of us to include those who are at risk of being left behind,” said…
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PTSD: What’s next for this war-inflicted mental disorder?
At a flag raising ceremony one morning in this war-ravaged Marawi City in southern Philippines, soldiers were seen crying while listening and singing the country’s national anthem on an Independence Day celebration, past a month of fighting with a local terrorist group that pledged allegiance to the international terror network ISIS. The report said, along…
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New hopes for depression: A prick test and a smartphone app
Two interventions—one slightly invasive and the other non-invasive—separately give new hopes for depression sufferers. Scientists at the UT (University of Texas) Southwestern Medical Center’s Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care have unlocked for the first time what might be an effective way of telling which prescription for depression could give the best outcome for…
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Problem gambling suicide in the wake of a Philippine mental health law: Can it help Filipino gambling addicts?
A month after a mental health bill was given majority vote by the Philippines’ Upper House, a man, who was described as “an emotionally disturbed individual,” entered the casino of one of the country’s premiere integrated tourist destinations, torched its tables and later himself leading to his death. The Philippine Mental Health Act was passed…
