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From the start of the pandemic to the present, people worldwide have been deeply affected. From early 2020 until now, the number of people seeking psychological support worldwide has risen sharply. Recent WHO data show that in the first year after the outbreak, the global…

The World Health Organization proposes four cornerstones of health: a balanced diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and mental health. The first three are easy to put into practice because their standards are objective, but the last—mental health—is not so easy to define.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, I called my fourth uncle to wish him well and chatted about family matters. There are some conflicts in our family involving my branch, mostly arising from accumulated grievances among the four brothers—my father…

A depressed patient once described her experience of seeing a doctor: she went to see a doctor and poured out her suffering; the doctor listened in silence and, after she finished, sighed deeply with compassion. That sigh brought tears to her eyes; she felt an…

First, I must define a healthy relationship. By it I mean a relationship beneficial both to ourselves and to the person we associate with, where "beneficial" means good for physical and mental health. For lovers, family, friends, teachers and students, classmates, and relatives to get…

On the day of Awakening of Insects, I shouldered a spade and went to my rented little vegetable plot to turn the soil. After working for a while, I felt relaxed in body and mind. I had been watching news of the Russia-Ukraine war and…

There was an intellectually disabled child in my village; his parents were close relatives who married, so the child was born with an intellectual deficit. In the past, whenever I returned to the village I would see him wandering around, scavenging food from garbage dumps,…

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Philosopher Bertrand Russell In 2002, at 23, I served as lead writer and coordinator on a project led by the National Development and Reform Commission concerning "sustainable development of resources, population, and…

Biologists have found that genes and environment each account for about half of their influence on human development, and on the onset and progression of disease. We can actually use this feature of genes and environment to change our own fate and regulate our health.

A circle is a geometric shape found throughout nature: a figure drawn around a point (the center) with a line segment as radius is a circle. We use the circle to symbolize the most perfect state in the world; we wish everything to be complete.