How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
How to tell if someone likes you ? Do you ever wonder if that boy/girl you really like, likes you too Well here are some top five pointers most common teenage boys follow these rules. 1. Stares at you then…
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The Focus on the Abuser in Toxic Relationships
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
A toxic relationship is just what it implies; poisonous. Unlike other poisons, a toxic personality can have dire consequences on those around them. A cord attachment develops and, rather than relying on each one’s individual energy, it is shared by…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Having someone to talk to when you have a problem, offers us the insight of other people’s knowledge, and experience. Being able to talk to them is important to us, and if the friend is a very close friend, you…
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Recognizing the Signs of Abuse in a Relationship
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
People who are suffering in abusive relationships, also has way of hiding their feelings when other people are around them. The signs start off small and build gradually for the person in an abusive relationship. The first signs are invisible…
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Is it Easier to Walk away or Stay with a Partner who is Violent – Walk away
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
-Doing The Right Thing Isn’t Always The Easiest Thing To Do- How many times have we read this story, or seen it on a talk show and shouted at the screen “JUST LEAVE HIM!” . Then how many times did…
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Fun Girls Night in
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
A girls’ night in can be loads of fun. You don’t need to go out in order to have a good time. Staying in has many advantages and is a chance for you and your girlfriends to catch up on…
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How to Prevent and Deal with Domestic Violence
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Ending Domestic Violence through Personal Accountability Everyone disagrees with people from time to time. Domestic violence occurs when disagreements turn into power struggles, often causing long term harm. There are many ways to prevent things from escalating to the point…
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How to Prevent and Deal with Domestic Violence
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
According to recent studies, domestic violence can affect up to one in three women. It can also scar their children and affect the community as a whole if prevention and treatment are made a priority. Domestic violence is defined as…
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Should you be Friends first or Jump into Dating
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Everybody would have dreamed of falling madly and wildly in love and for those that were lucky (or unlucky) enough to have had such a relationship, they would agree that the experience was wonderful and exhilarating. During the highlights of…
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Reasons for Womens Body Insecurities
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
Most women have parts of their body they don’t like. Some women are confident enough not to let their ‘flaws’ bother them, but others allow the pressure to be ‘perfect’ get to them. When they are constantly exposed to images…
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Is there Life after Domestic Violence
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
I think if your in this situation you should read this it may help. After a failed marriage, for reasons I won’t go into now.I met a man who moved in with me and we were together for seven years.The…
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Is it Easier to Walk away or Stay with a Partner who is Violent – Walk away
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Do you ever really know the person you fall in love with and marry? My reply to this question is “no, maybe not” You do not know your spouse’s idiosyncrasies until you are married to them. A (man/woman) is on…
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How to Prevent and Deal with Domestic Violence
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Domestic abuse affects approximately 1 in 4 women, 1 in 7 gay men, 2 in 18 lesbians and approximately 1 in 14 men. This means everyone probably knows someone who has been a victim of abuse at some point in…
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The Perfect Girls Night in
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
“Girls night out” is a time honored tradition that we have all enjoyed on occasion. We take time to look our best, and hit the town for cocktails, girltalk and maybe some flirtation. On the other end of the spectrum,…
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Shaving what not to do
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
I still remember the first time I shaved. I barely had any stubble to work with, yet I was dead-set determined to get it right – to the point that I spent forty minutes carefully scraping the fuzz away from…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
A lot of people come down with the “blues”. Sometimes it’s from a personal lost and other times it’s caused lack of personal accomplishment. However, more than likely, if a person is suffering from the “blues” they have just gone…
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Recognizing the Signs of Abuse in a Relationship
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Sociopath-In the 1830’s this disorder was called “moral insanity.” By 1900, it was changed to “psychopathic personality.” More recently, it has been termed “antisocial personality disorder.” John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson are great examples of sociopaths, and in…
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Why some People Hate looking in the Mirror
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
It is easy to understand why some people hate looking at their reflection in a world that seems to be obsessed with appearance. Everywhere you look there are pictures of flawless beauty which isn’t possible to achieve in the real…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
There are friends, and then there are FRIENDS. My brother was a FRIEND. He was a very energetic, friendly guy, and as a nurse, he befriended all he encountered…his patients, the wait staff in restaurants, the checker at the store,…
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How to Prevent and Deal with Domestic Violence
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Domestic violence has a lot of faces to it. It consist of many things but eventually it all leads to one thing. Control and power over another person. The words domestic violence are likely to conjure up images in ones…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Okay, so your friend is going through an ordeal and is feeling bluer than the sky, what do YOU do? Typically, the usual answer or cure one would give is to cheer her/him up,take them out and let them forget…
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Are Personal Hygiene Products Safe
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
Lining the shelves of every bathroom are a plethora of various products used on a daily basis, usually in excess of what is really needed. Everything from soothing lotions to moisturize your skin to the lathery cleansers to wipe away…
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Losing Friendships because of the Blame Game
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Blame Game or Just Mind Games ? The words blame and game are both indicative of a manipulative and juvenile way of thinking and point of view. Being competitive by nature, I find very little challenge in manipulation and playing…
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Anatomy of a Codependent Relationship
You’re sitting in the kitchen weeping. Again. He’s upstairs snoring in a drunken stupor. There’s a bruise coming up on the side of your head because he’s landed one on you. Luckily it is under your hair where no one…
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Is it Easier to Walk away or Stay with a Partner who is Violent – Stay
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Walking a way from a violent partner seems like the sensible thing to do. It can be extremely dangerous for the abuse victim and her family and friends. An abusive partner needs to be in control. If the object of…
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Brazilian Bikini Wax Advil and Waxing Homeopathy and Waxing Pain the Benefits of Waxing
September 4, 2015 Skin and Body
The Brazilian Bikini Wax is the Mt Everest of Personal Grooming. To venture to this elevated post takes some backbone and a little bit money (the average cost in Albany, NY is $55). Getting a Brazilian wax is not for…
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Is it better to have a Large or Small Group of Friends – Small
September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Large group or small group? I favor the small, quality groups over the large group. Ever try to remember 25 different birthdays, anniversaries and Good Lord knows what else, let alone trying to remember what everyone drinks? And then try…
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Coping after Murder Suicide Accident and Death of a Loved one
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
Everyone has experienced some form of grief to some degree or other, and I am no different. I chose to tackle the “Creative” assignment because there has been one major loss in my life that has profoundly impacted the way…
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Why don’t Men Express their Feelings as Easily as most Women
My girl friend can say about ten thousand words in the time it takes me to outer two words. This is a fundamental different between men and women. We are biologically wired in different ways. I can tell you that…
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How to Protect Children from Sex Predators
September 4, 2015 Crisis Support
None of us wants to think of child sexual abuse. It is an ugly, foul act upon the defenseless. However, child sexual abuse is an epidemic and a blight on societies everywhere and it must be confronted. If you are…
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