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Job got you down?

Career choices are sometimes overwhelming in today’s world, where new jobs and professional options multiply daily. Research shows that the most satisfying careers are those which take into account your values, personality, learning style, and long term goals. If you don’t have this knowledge, c ...

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Counselling

The most important thing in counselling is the relationship between the client and the counsellor. Deciding to seek counseling is a huge first step in taking the initiative to make life better, and it’s important to feel comfortable with your counsellor.

Counsellors and counselling psyc ...

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Smoking

The addiction to smoking gives a 50 percent chance of killing the user, which is three times riskier than playing Russian roulette.

Tobacco naturally contains a substance called nicotine, which is, by itself addicting. The tobacco companies then add a variety of other chemicals intended ...

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Stress

Stress is simply a fact of nature -- forces from the outside world affecting the individual. The individual responds to stress in ways that affect the individual as well as their environment. Because of the overabundance of stress in our modern lives, we usually think of stress as a negative experi ...

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Addiction

The current model to explain addiction suggests that addiction begins with the basic pleasure and reward circuits in the brain, which involve the chemical dopamine. These reward centers are designed to activate during pleasurable acts such as eating. Whenever ingesting a substance causes these rewar ...

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