Segal Trials Just over four years ago, when Alyshia Hull arrived on campus at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, New York, she found herself surrounded by hundreds of other wide-eyed new students. But beneath her eagerness to start her first semester at college, Hull was battling something that made her feel entirely alone: anxiety. She had dealt …
Dr. Chat is a monthly segment in which Segal Trials discusses various health topics within the community to provide support, insight, and education. The topic for February’s Dr. Chat is ‘Autism, Tourette Syndrome and kids who are prescribed with antipsychotics.’ In this interview, Dr. Scott D. Segal MD, MBA, talks about what is Autism and Tourette Syndrome, their …
David Archuleta opens up in an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment posted Tuesday (Nov. 27) about his struggles with mental health, his relationship with his father and more following American Idol. “You’re basically a character on a TV show, and parts of it are worked so that it fits the TV show — but they’re using …
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore shared with fans in late October that her daughter Brooklyn would have to be delivered early due to preeclampsia, a condition that causes high blood pressure in pregnancy. Now, Moore revealed in a new interview that her delivery wasn’t easy either. Moore, 47, told People that she had to have a three-hour emergency …
If you aren’t super familiar with schizophrenia, you might associate the condition with movies like A Beautiful Mind or episodes of Law & Order. But schizophrenia is a complex, widely misunderstood condition, and pop culture references to the disorder don’t always (or even usually) get it right. Here’s what you actually need to know about schizophrenia. 1. Yes, schizophrenia …
If you drew a Venn diagram to compare the kinds of birth control that prevent pregnancy and the ones that protect against sexually transmitted infections, the overlapping portion in the middle representing those that do both would be pretty small. While all forms of contraception are designed to impede pregnancy in some way, only a select few attempt …
America’s Got Talent fans, meet Samuel J. Comroe. Comroe, who has Tourette Syndrome, made his debut on the reality competition series on Tuesday, when he impressed judges Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Simon Cowell with his comedic talents. What set Comroe apart was that his standup focused on how he’s lived life with Tourette …
Earlier this month, Instagram launched its new “Questions” feature, allowing users to carry out deeper Q&As than are possible using the simpler “Polls” feature. So much deeper, in fact, that when Victoria’s Secret model Sara Sampaio was recently asked a benign question about her eyebrow maintenance, she gave an honest answer about her trichotillomania and detailed her experiences with …
FKA twigs has been fairly absent from the limelight since her big project with Nike last year, and today she opened up about where she’s been. The British singer and dancer, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, announced on Instagram that she had been dealing with painful uterine fibroid tumors and had undergone surgery in December to …
A new study has found that a baby’s sex can influence how much likelier his mom is of developing postpartum depression. Conducted by researchers at the University of Kent in the U.K., the study looked at “the complete reproductive histories of 296 women from contemporary, low fertility populations gathered by retrospective survey” to find the link between PPD (also …
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