For the past couple of weeks I’ve been hearing about “NOvember” campaigns such as “putting the ‘no’ in ‘November’” and “The NOvember Challenge.” There are a few different versions of the campaign, but essentially it is a call to say “no” to unhealthy/unenjoyable/non-enriching requests and habits. Although this call to action has been around for years, it’s suddenly become relevant to me
The percentage increase in "drug overdose mortality rates" for U.S. military veterans from 2010-2019, according to an article published online earlier this year by the journal Annals of Medicine -- U.S. Military veterans and the opioid overdose crisis: a review of risk factors and prevention efforts.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review.
● Do people use methods or tricks to fall asleep? A comparison between people with and without chronic insomnia.
● A systematic review of dreams and nightmares recall in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder.
When conducting our two-day workshops on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), participants often note that a high percentage of their patients experience or report having sleep difficulties. Participants also note that patients seeking help have often been struggling with these problems for years. As a result, patients can enter into treatment feeling both helpless and hopeless about the possibility of their sleep functioning improving.
The number of military veterans in the U.S. as of 2021, according to a Facts for Features publication from the U.S. Census Bureau -- Veterans Day 2022: November 11.