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Personnality of the month
Jeunes artistes colombiens
Yuri Vargas
Michelle Vlahos
John Kapelos
France Castel
John Sader
Documentary: Drop-out in Colombia: Making-Of (Cont.)
A protein in the brain can help with stress
An anxiety protein in the brain could led to new treatments for stress disorders and depression.
Fear of heights can be treated with a stress hormone
Scientists have created a pill that can treat an irrational fear of heights.
New fathers with depression tend to spank their babies more.
New research shows that new dads experience baby blues too: 7% of new fathers reported recent major depression, and many of them said they had spanked their 1-year-old babies.
Discrimination may hurt the health of obese people.
According to a recent study people who are obese are discriminated against at work and in public and this in turn creates more stress, which affects their health.
Link between stress hormone and PSTD in women.
According to a new study it may be a link between PSTD and the stress hormone in women.
New treatment for depression: brain pacemakers.
It may be possible that brain pacemakers can be used to treat depression.
More Facebook friends means more stress.
According to new survey, the more friends you have on Facebook the more stressed out you are.
Valentine Day.
Some reflections about Valentine Day.
Suicide fence on Olympia bridge.
On March will begin the installation of a nearly 9-foot fence along the Capitol Boulevard Bridge over Interstate 5.
Suicide in Costa Rica.
The number of suicides in Costa Rica in 2010 was 348.
Teen boys drug-related suicide are least likely in February.
That’s according to a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration which tracked emergency room visits.
A video game that helps treat stress.
US doctors are treating soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by plunging them back into combat, using a virtual reality game that simulates battle scenes from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Live at your own rhythm.
Why do we have to apply to ourselves what worked for others? It is not better to live at our own rhythm?
Shut the door to the sadness in the new year
Time to celebrate.
We must use this time of the year for reflect
Depression in moms affects babies.
A new study from the University of Michigan has found that babies born to depressed mums have higher levels of stress hormones, as well as with other neurological and behavioral differences.
Tips to fight holiday stress.
A very “fast” season is starting and you have to be prepared!
Suicide Rates Soaring Among WWII Vets
Job stress can double women´s risk to hearts attack.
A new study found that high levels of stress at work can increase the risk of heart attack for healthy women by an astonishing 88 percent.
Stress in USA.
A new survey from the American Psychological Association's showed that Americans appear to be caught in a vicious cycle where they manage stress in unhealthy ways.
Stress as a teenager doubles the risk of depression in adult life.
A new research has proved that stress as a teenager doubles the risk of depression in the adult life.
Link between depression and pregnancy stress.
A study conducted in Dublin have confirmed that women whose mothers experienced stress during pregnancy face a higher risk of depression in later life.
Love and happiness.
Love is one of the most amazing things in the world. When you are in love you can feel butterflies in your stomach…
70% of the population has suffered anxiety and stress.
In the case of Spain, it is expected that 29 percent of the population will experience a mental disorder throughout his life.
67% of women in prostitution suffer from post-traumatic stress.
The data was released as part of the First International Conference on Sexual Exploitation of Women.
Life: the best reason to keep living !
The important thing is not to be called doctors or make money with a professional title, what is truly important in life is to help others and be a model for ourselves and others.
Talking about happiness… again…
I think is a great idea to remember each of you every now and then how important is for us to be happy.
Stress raises dementia risk in women.
According to a new study, women who suffer mid-life stress are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as those who lead a normal life.
Reducing stress everywhere.
School dropout... to avoid the bullets
Apparently the stress hormone is less in married and committed people.
Single and unpaired individuals are more responsive to psychological stress than married individuals.
Smiling at job makes you more productive.
Happiness at work is closely correlated with greater performance and productivity as well as greater energy, better reviews, faster promotion, higher income, better health and increased happiness with life.
The stress of the first year of college can trigger eating disorder.
According to a new study from the University of Alabama, instead of gaining weight as is believe, starting in collage can have the opposite effect.
A new iPhone app: The Happiness App.
The app is called “Mappiness” and it track happiness in the UK
Link between stress and lower pregnancy rates.
According to a new study from the National Institutes of Health and the UK's University of Oxford, there is a link between the stress and lower pregnancy rates in women.
Being grateful.
Sometimes we take things for granted and don’t appreciate them enough.
Stress less and smile more.
I was thinking in a way to relate two topics that I like to talk with you about: stress and smile.
A stress vaccine? Probably!
A team of doctors are working on a “novel cure” for stress.
Your pet dog can help you with stress.
According to a new study, quality time with a dog can reduce stress.
Don’t worry, be happy.
I was thinking and I noticed that most of the time we are worry about something.
Children and depression
Happiness at work.
We like to talk about happiness, and job burnout. Today we decided to combine the two topics in one so we will be talking a little bit about happiness at the workplace.
Exercise and Happiness.
It is common knowledge that exercises have multiples benefits. One of them is that it can make people happier.
A grey world
Quebec women farmers commit suicide 30% less than the average of all occupations
Chocolate againt depression?
Eating chocolate may help reduce depression.
Hamburgers increase depression
By 2020, according to health experts, depression will be the disease number one...
Suicide becomes a response to urban violence in Medellin?
Cyber addiction and depression
Quebec farmers have a suicide rate two times higher than the general population
Chicago: new law aims to prevent teen suicide.
The governor of Chicago, Pat Quinn signed on Saturday a new law to help prevent teens from committing suicide.
Alliance with UNIDEP in Colombia
A day just for you.
Today we want to talk with you about something that is what really matters: you.
Job burnout.
In this day it is common to feel a lot of stress in our workplace because all of the tasks that we need to accomplished.
Women are more sensitive to stress
Women are more likely to suffer from depression and stress out than their cool male counterparts.
Quit smoking can reduce stress!
After a person kicks the habit of smoking, chronic stress levels may go down.
Dealing with stress.
We want to give you some tips that will help you fight the negative stress.
International Convention of the Rotary in Montreal, June 21-23
Love and happiness.
When was the last time that you told the persons that you care the most how important are they for you? Probably it was not recently.
Christina Aguilera talks about depression.
In the new “Behind The Music” special on VH1, the singer opens up about the moments in which she has been depressed.
Understanding the stress.
We thought it could be useful for you to have a “guide” about what is stress, its causes and its main signs and symptoms.
10 easy ways to be happy
According to The Huffington Post the latest finding in neuroscience suggest that the brain can change.
Foxconn: in the center of the storm.
After the recent wave of suicides, Foxconn was forced to take some radical measures, such as asking their employees to make a written commitment of not to take their own lives and to accept psychiatric treatment if their physical or mental state is abnormal.
New study: There is a link between lower IQ scores in men and suicide attempts.
Apparently, the lower the IQ score was, the more likely the men were to try to kill themselves.
The power of a smile.
A smile doesn’t cost a thing and it produces a lot: joy, positive feelings, peace.
World’s happiest places in 2009.
The top three countries were Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands.
Foxconn raises workers’ pays.
Foxconn promised on Friday, May 28th, that would increase the wage to its employees by 20%, after the recent wave of suicides.
A study from Coca Cola measures Global Happiness.
Coca Cola realized a study in 16 countries and four continents in order to identify what happiness means to different nationalities.
Dalai Lama inspires a research on happiness
In an attempt to bring Buddhism and western science closer together, scientist Richard Davidson and the Dalai Lama marked the opening of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Living in the present.
Life is full of opportunities, surprises and possibilities. It is our duty to take every second. It is our job with ourselves to live in the present.
New Study: Happiness comes with age.
According to a new study, life looks a little rosier after 50.
Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.
This is the measure that matters in Bhutan, unlike other countries where the most important things are the Gross National Product (GNP) and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Suicide pacts and the internet.
Cyber-based suicide pacts: individual pact members agree to die by suicide at about the same time, but not necessarily at the same place.
Another suicide at Apple’s Chinese supplier
Another employee of the electronic assembler committed suicide.
Meditation: a mechanism to improve our wellbeing.
These days meditation is know as a valid mechanism to reduce stress. That is why we want to share with you some of the benefits of this technique.
Eight people dead in group suicide pacts in South Korea
On Wednesday, May 12th, eight people were found dead in South Korea, in two different groups.
Buddha and Happiness
In Buddhism the mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
The pursuit of Happiness
The U.S Declaration of Independence established that there are “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Keys to happiness.
After talking about happiness and how important it is for us to decide to be happy, the next reasonable step would be to share with you some advices to happiness.
Happiness facts
I was on the Internet and realized that several websites offers “happiness facts” so I though it would be good to share some of them with you.
Positive Psychology: a science about happiness?
It has three central concerns: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions.
Let’s learn to be happy.
I was thinking about happiness and which concept we have of it and I decided to ask ten friends what make them happy, in just one word.
10 MONTHS LATER : 100 COUNTRIES !!
100 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD VISIT A CLICK FOR A WISH, 200 Fans on FaceBook...
The suicide of a parent makes the children more likely to die in the same way.
The study notes that the death of the parent affects more if the suicide occurs during childhood or adolescent than when it occurs when they are young adults.
Depressed people eat more chocolat.
According to Experts of the California University, in a research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine that was based on a study of nearly 1,000 people, where they discussed their consumption habits.
The suicide of Linda Marulanda causes commotion in Colombia.
The suicide of this beautiful woman has caused commotion in her close relatives and throughout Colombia.
Link between depression and tendency to smoke.
Link between depression and tendency to smoke.
Depression in seniors.
According to the National Institutes of Health, of the 35 million Americans age 65 or older, about 2 million suffer from full-blown depression.
An English young woman committed suicide after being rejected in 200 job applications.
After two years searching for jobs Vicky Harrison ended with her life.
Networks against suicide in Jalisco.
During 2009, 347 people committed suicide in Jalisco. You could say that almost one per day.
Happiness is the best anti-dote to depression and suicide.
That’s way we want to share with you some tips to help you be happy.
Edwin Valero committed suicide in jail.
Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero, age 28, committed suicide last Monday en his cell in the prison of Carabobo state policy.
Walk A Mile in My Shoes.
This year walk will be held 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 8 at Eldridge Park in Elmira, New York.
Increase in the cases of suicide-filicide in Peru.
This phenomenon is increasing and its main causes are marital conflict, economic crisis and deep depression.
Some regions of Colombia on alert for under-age suicides
The cases of attempted suicide of minors in San Gil and Guanentá Province, Colombia, have increased
Releasing the stress.
ElColombiano.com newspaper published an interesting article called "Get rid of that enemy that is the stress."
Katie Price talks about depression and thinking of suicide.
The 31 year old British model, also know as Jordan, declared that the post-natal depression she suffered after giving birth to her son Junior in 2005 made her suicidal.
Dealing with depression.
Some tips to deal with depression.
Scientists discover link between stress, anxiety and depression.
A research from the Western Ontario University, in Canada, has discovered a link between stress, anxiety and depression by identifying a connection mechanism in the brain.
Exercise: one way to control depression and anxiety.
This is according to a research program at the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University at Dallas.
Meditation can reduce the symptoms of depression.
According to two studies from the Charles Drew University in Los Angeles and Hawaii University in Hohala that have been made public during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine held in Seattle (United States).
Google offers help to those who seeks suicide.
Since last week, when a person uses in the Google search terms that are related with suicide, Google offers first results of telephones number for help lines.
Chris Kanyon was found dead: is believed to have committed suicide.
Wrestler Chris Kanyon was found dead on his apartment on Saturday.
Actress Emma Thompson suffered from depression after her divorce.
It was her actual husband, Greg Wise, who saved her.
Suicide of Phoebe Price
Suicide of Phoebe Price, the girl that was a victim of bullying, reopens the debate about anti-bullying legislation in the US.
Depression in children.
Some studies show that between a 2% and a 5% of children in scholar age are depressed.
Foods that reduce stress.
Some studies show that vitamins like B complex, C and E along with minerals like manganese, selenium and zinc are helpful in relieving stress.
Stress: how to identify it.
Stress is a recurrent problem in the actuality. This is a guide to detecte it and deal with it.
Suicide in Costa Rica.
In 2008, 43 young people took their lives and approximately 325 attempted suicides.
7,4% of Mexicans have symptoms of depression.
According to the National Institute of Psychiatric, 7,4% of Mexicans suffer from depression causing a decrease in job performance up to 40% and absenteeism of 14 days per year.
Work related stress
Unemployment depression: how to fight it?
Depression increase in Spain due to crisis
The consults for depression have increased a 20% after the crisis.
Homosexual youth suicide
General statistics shows that the GLBT youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.
Relationship problems can increase the risk of suicide.
Recent wave of suicides at Cornell University
Social Networks : Suicide Help
Demi Moore, Nia Vardalos and an online chain of posts on twitter to save a teenager
The Stars and Suicide
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Internet and depression
Most suicides suffer from depression.
España: suicide is the 1st cause of unnatural death.
Adolescent depression
Interview on Colombian Television
Wilmar Valencia Alvarez, the coordinator of A Click For A Wish in Colombia, was the guest of a morning program on the TV Channel Tele Norte...
Inspirational quotes
Discover inspirational quotes
School dropout: an epidemic.
In this days school dropout it’s a common phenomenon in our society.
Singer-songwriter Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse committed suicide.
Mark Linkous committed suicide on Sunday in Knoxville.
Suicide Prevention
Depression prevention: what you can do?
New study relates the lack of sleep and depression
Teenagers who don’t sleep enough are more likely to develop depressive disorders.
The SUPRE Project by World Health Organization (WHO)
The SUPRE Project is a project of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Andrew Koenig committed suicide in Vancouver
His father speaks to those who suffer and think of suicide...
Devastated Haiti, we are all solidary, but not only in words...
Colombia joins Canada to give hope to the world
An amazing chain of solidarity To help a woman in despair, on internet...
Rotary discovers A Click For A Wish
One of the most dynamic Rotary Clubs, Rotary Ville-Marie in Montreal, welcomed François H. de Beaulieu.
France is blue like an orange
Jacques Attali, economist, questions the recent suicides at France-telecom in an inspiring article…
The personnality of the month
France Castel, the famous comedian, actress and singer from Quebec, share with us life experience and life teachings
Depression and Suicide
To Be and To Have; a return to the values of being to counter Depression and Suicide…
Canadian Statistics
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among British Columbia youth aged 10-18 after motor vehicle accidents
Secrets to a Healthy Lifestyle !
It is important to have someone, or a number of people you trust that you feel comfortable to talk to.
What can you do if you are feeling suicidal?
The beginning of the way out is to let someone else in.
What to do following a suicide attempt
If you are involved in giving first aid, make every effort to be calm and reassuring, and get medical help immediately.
Prevent a suicide attempt
If you are concerned that someone may be suicidal, take action.
What are the danger signs?
Some warning signs that a person may be suicidal include
Why do people commit suicide?
There are many circumstances which can contribute to someone's decision to end his/her life, but a person's feelings about those circumstances are more important than the circumstances themselves.
Preventing suicide
Suicide. We would rather not talk about it. We hope it will never happen to anyone we know. But suicide is a reality, and it is more common than you might think.
A Click For A Wish on Facebook
