According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately one in five adults in the United States – approximately 43.8 million – experiences mental illness in a given year and approximately one in 25 adults in the United States – 9.8 million – experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits their ability to do normal activities.
If you’re like many people, you spend a large part of your life on your computer, watching TV, and skimming or checking your smartphone, driving in your car, and sitting at your desk looking at a screen. You rarely get out into nature. And while you may realize that this isn’t healthy, you simply don’t…
Ahhh. The smell of spring! Don’t you just love it? Oh wait. You haven’t noticed a thing because you’re glued to your smartphone—even when crossing the street. If you’re like most people in the United States, your own a smartphone and you’re addicted to it. Did you know that 64 percent of American adults own…
Did you know, that compared to 1980, we cram in an extra 4.4 hours per day of information consumption outside of work? Our brain is actually wired to seek information and we, as a society, has become addicted to the screen, with the lure of instant screen-based information being over-powering, just like the lure of…