Don’t fall behind on these important wellness checks
Are you up-to-date with all your health screenings?
In this week’s medical column, Dr. Michael Daignault, an emergency room doctor in Los Angeles, explains the importance of making sure you haven’t put off these screenings amid COVID-19, which many did at the height of the pandemic.
Here’s more of what he shared:
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a drastic decline in the number of patients with non-COVID medical emergencies. A CDC study found that overall ER visits declined 42% from March to April 2020 compared to the same time in 2019. Even more concerning, a survey of nine major hospitals in April 2020 showed that the number of severe heart attacks treated in hospitals dropped nearly 40% over the course of one month. Patients were avoiding or delaying care in the ER out of fear of “catching COVID.”
click here to read his full column.
6 signs you need to unplug from social media for your mental health
While many rely on social media to stay connected to friends and run their businesses, some of us turn to our apps without really knowing what we’re looking for – and our reliance on social media can impact our mental health.
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I uprooted my life for my boyfriend and he dumped me. What do I do now?
In this week’s advice column, a reader wrote in: “I met my boyfriend in June of 2020 on Hinge and we clicked immediately. We moved in together after a year and basically spent the next year acting like a married couple. We did lose a lot of the romance through that, but I always thought we could find it again because we loved each other and were best friends. I had voiced my concerns for the lack of romance in our relationship, and I felt like I eventually started seeing it again. I thought things were on the right path until one day he came home from work and out of nowhere told me that it’s not working out.
He said that at some point he fell out of love with me even though he still loved me. He also said that he was not really attracted to me anymore and didn’t have the desire to be intimate with me. I felt so blindsided because not even three days before, we were hanging out with his family and casually talking about our future plans together.
He told me he started having doubts in January and really started to question if I was his person about a month before he broke up with me. He officially ended it in May. When I asked why he never talked to me about how he was feeling, he told me that he just kind of shoved it down and internalized it. It’s been a month since we broke up and I feel so lost. Everything in me still feels like he’s my person but he apparently doesn’t think so. I moved my entire life out to another town, started a new job and completely changed my life for our relationship, so on top of having to mourn the loss of our relationship, I have to basically start over. I honestly don’t know where to go from here.”
To see what our advice columnist had to say, click here.
Today’s reads
- Are Asians ‘allergic’ to alcohol? How the dreaded ‘glow’ makes drinking feel isolating.
- Anne Heche was in a coma before taken off life support. What to know about comas.
- What does it mean to let go of a relationship? Tips on healing from the past and moving on.
- Queer conversion therapy is still practiced in the US. Experts say we need to talk about it.
- The power of body positivity propels ‘Victoria Secret’ from TikTok hit to Billboard charts.
- What is a speakeasy? A club? A bar? A restaurant? We have answers.
- ‘You might as well do you’: Serena Williams and the never-ending struggle to balance work, family.
Today’s pet
Meet Dixie.
Dixie is an 11-year-old miniature pinscher from Memphis who has been taking good care of her owner during the “last couple of crazy years,” writes Randy Keith. “We’ve had some great conversations.”
We’re so glad you have Dixie by your side!
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