You stub your toe on the bedpost. Before your brain even registers the pain, a word explodes from your mouth – sharp, loud and oddly satisfying.
Far from being a simple slip in manners, swearing is a reflex rooted deep in the structure of the human body, drawing on networks in the brain and autonomic nervous system that evolved to help us survive pain and shock.
Research shows that a well-placed expletive can dull pain, regulate the heart and help the body recover from stress. The occasional outburst, it seems, isn’t a moral failure – it’s a protective reflex wired into us.
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After waiting more than a year to see an NHS specialist, Sam’s assessment for ADHD took less than two hours. It happened over video, involved a short checklist and brief history, and ended with a swift decision.
Within weeks, Sam had a diagnosis, a prescription and a discharge letter back to the GP. But when symptoms worsened and medication side-effects appeared a few months later, no one seemed sure who was responsible for follow-up. As we know from our clinical and research work, stories like this are increasingly common in UK mental health and neurodevelopmental services.
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Beginning in the 1980s, science pivoted the world went from Population Bomb mass starvation concerns to the luxury of being able to be worried about obesity.
Sixty years ago, you had to be rich to be fat, and government-controlled healthcare may now mean you have to be rich to be thin. A new paper warns that the NHS means there is a new way for medical care to be "two-tiered"; the rich will buy products from America while the poor will be denied treatment like Mounjaro because government won't pay for it.
The NHS was created to make health equitable but it instead created a larger gap, where…
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