Depression can feel very lonely.
Your doctor will be able to advise you on the various choices for talking therapy (治疗) for a range of mental health problems including anxiety and depression, available in groups or one-to-one sessions. Painful experiences can be hard to talk about, but professionals understand this. Be as open as you can so that you can receive the best help.
Try going for counselling
Counselling may be available via your GP (全科医生). Short-term counselling consists of 6 to 12 hour-long, one-to-one sessions.
It may be appropriate to continue with longer term counselling. This therapy may be suitable for mild anxiety and depression and can help you deal with problems such as anger, relationship issues and so on.
Consider psychotherapy
Psychotherapy could also be something to consider to help you cope with depression. Psychotherapy looks into past experiences to find their connection to present difficulties.
Ask your doctor questions
Ask your GP if the practice provides any mental health services directly. If not, ask to be referred to a therapist. You could also look at registers of practitioners at your local library or on the Internet. Being on a register does not ensure quality, but it does mean that if you have a problem, you can take the matter up with the organisation.
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) provides a list of registered therapists.
| A．Talk to your doctor. |
| B．Find supports from family. |
| C．But talking about it can help. |
| D．There are different forms of psychotherapy. |
| E．The counsellors may offer some medical advice. |
| F．The counsellors will listen and may ask you questions. |
| G．And if you know someone who has seen a therapist, ask for a recommendation. |
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●Manage passwords.
Constantly changing your password has always been a basic form of protection.
include your personal information. So stay away from names and birthdates. Ideally, passwords should contain different letters, random numbers. It’s better to have a very strong, long password that doesn’t have any personal information.
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Deceptive phishing (网络钓鱼) is one of the most common types of trick. It’s best to view all emails with care. Hackers can make emails look like real. company emails. That can trick readers into clicking on dangerous links. If doing so, you could end up introducing a virus to your computer or accidentally giving sensitive information to the wrong people.
●Use two-factor identification,
Two-factor identification adds a second level of security to an account, It’s a security option that requires a password as well as an additional piece of information only the user would know. Sometimes, it’s a code sent to your cellphone that has to be entered after a password.
● Updated apps and operating systems are a must.
Too often, users are unwilling to update their mobile devices. It seems that updates only change the way your phone’s software looks.
●Be careful with public charging stations and Wi-Fi.
Charging stations and Wi-Fi are a convenience provided to the public, but they can bring risks for they may be connected to another compromised (缺乏免疫力的) device. If you connect to Wi-Fi and then it asks you to download something, you shouldn’t do that.
| A．View emails with a sharp eye. |
| B．In fact, it can make your phone work fast, too. |
| C．What should we do to keep our information safe? |
| D．Actually, they often come with security improvements. |
| E．The additional characteristic can keep your information much safer. |
| F．How safe is personal information on your computer or cell phone? |
| G．But what passwords to pick and how to manage them really matter. |
【推荐2】How to Avoid Spreading a Cold or Other Virus?
It’s more significant than before to ensure you’re taking all of the steps you can to prevent spreading virus that can make you and your loved ones sick. Fortunately, some of the most effective steps for preventing the spread of disease are also the easiest.
Wash your hands often. The best way that you can help prevent the spread of virus is to wash your hands frequently with soap and water. Wash your hands for 20 seconds, making sure to scrub (擦洗) your palms, the backs of your hands and fingers, under your fingernails, and around your thumbs.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. It can be really difficult.
Practice social distancing. If there’s an illness going around, like during cold and flu season, try to limit your contact with other people. Those types of virus are often spread when a person sneezes or coughs.
| A．It’s smart to drink bottled water. |
| B．Don’t share personal items with other people. |
| C．Wear a face mask if you have to be around others. |
| D．Then wash your hands with clean water thoroughly. |
| E．Here are some steps to prevent people from becoming ill. |
| F．So stay at least 6 ft (1.8 m) away from anyone who may be sick. |
| G．However, try to break the habit of touching your face throughout the day. |
【推荐3】Some people are always on time, while others are at least 20 minutes (and sometimes even hours) late! It’s annoying, because while you wait for your friend, you feel offended.
First of all, talk to your friend about your feelings. Don’t offend them.
Try to find a way to make your friend come on time. For example, you can tell them that your cellphone is out of power and you can’t be called. If your friend can’t call and tell you they will be late, they will have to come on time.
When nothing works, change your attitude to accept the fact that your friend will never come on time.
| A．Wait a certain period of time, then go on with your plans, alone. |
| B．Be productive when you have to wait for your friend. |
| C．After all, friendship is more important than arriving on time. |
| D．So how can you deal with the always-late friend? |
| E．Don’t put yourself in situations where you depend on your friend. |
| F．Why should you put up with a lack of respect for your valuable time? |
| G．Or just tell your friend you’re to meet half an hour earlier than the real meeting time. |
【推荐1】The human spine doesn’t just help us stand up straight. Inside the spine is the spinal cord (脊髓), which carries important information between the head and the lower part of the body. This information moves around as tiny, short bursts of electricity which travel between the brain and the other parts of the body.
The legs and feet send “sense” information to the brain, saying they’re hurt or hot. And the brain sends signals to the lower body, perhaps telling the legs to walk, dance, or sit down. Towards the bottom of the spine, nerves leave the spine. Different nerves help control different groups of muscles in the legs.
When someone’s spinal cord is hurt, this important pathway can get damaged. When that happens, a person is “paralyzed”, and he can’t move his legs. Now scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland have given three paralyzed men the ability to walk again. Each of the three men had damaged their spinal cords in motorcycle accidents and couldn’t move their legs.
To walk again, the man had operation. A special device was placed directly on the lower part of their spinal cords, below their injury. The implant (植入物) contained sixteen electrodes, which are small objects that electricity can pass through. The researchers made sure the electrodes on the implant were lined up with the nerves that control the leg muscles. To begin with, the scientists controlled the implants from a computer. Just hours after the implants were first used, all three men were taking steps, with support.
In the past, scientists have had some success with similar implants in the lower spine. But this research is different. The patients’ brains aren’t sending messages to their legs. The researchers used computers to set modes of movement—like taking a step—that would work well with each patient. The patients then used the computer to choose the pattern they wanted. That caused the implant, and the muscles to move in the chosen way. Over time, the men were able to walk entirely on their own, using a special walker with buttons to trigger each leg.
The solution isn’t perfect. It’s very expensive, it requires difficult surgery, and the patients can’t walk without the system. But the scientists are expecting that in the future, this technology will allow many paralyzed people to begin to walk again in just hours.
1. How does the spinal cord function in one’s body?| A．By sending out signals to the lower body. | B．By controlling different groups of muscles. |
| C．By providing electricity for the body. | D．Passing on information between body parts. |
| A．They receive messages from patients’ brains. |
| B．They work well by successful operations. |
| C．They are driven by computers to aid the patients to walk around. |
| D．They cause the muscles to function in a specific way. |
| A．Critical. | B．Objective. | C．Doubtful. | D．Favorable. |
| A．To compare different implants. |
| B．To show the important role of spinal cord in our bodies. |
| C．To inform us of a new invented implant. |
| D．To identify the weaknesses of former implants. |
【推荐2】Online crowdfunding(众筹) for medical expenses raises less money than social media has made us believe and deepens health care inequalities, a new study reports.
The first large-scale assessment of medical crowdfunding in the United States shows That people instates with higher medical debt and lower rates of insurance(保险)coverage are more likely to try to raise money through crowdfunding websites, but less likely to succeed. From 2016 through 2020, more medical campaigns on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe were started in low-income and under-insured communities, researchers report February 3 in the American Journal of Public Health. But campaigns in wealthier communities with higher rates of insurance coverage raised significantly more money.
The study matched state and county census (人口普查) data with outcomes from more than 437,000 GoFundMe campaigns over the five-year period. During that time, more than $2 billion was raised, with the average campaign earning just under $2,000. The study also found that 16 percent of campaigns raised nothing, while less than 2 percent met their goal.
“The returns were notably low compared with the needs people have for medical expenses,” says sociologist Mark Igra of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Mississippi, for example, has the highest percentage of population with medical debt and is among the highest in percentage of uninsured, but crowdfunding campaigns there raised the least money of all 50 states. Vermont, on the other band, raised the most. Its population had one of the lowest percentages of uninsured people.
While GoFimdMe’s previous chief executive Robert Solomon has called concerns that crowdfunding increases socioeconomic inequalities “nonsense,” the new study disproves that, says Jeremy Snyder, a health researcher at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, who was not involved with this research.
“Crowdfunding relies heavily on social networks that typically have similar characteristics, including income, to the campaigner, themselves," says Snyder, who wrote an analysis to accompany the study. ”If GoFundMe has data that suggests otherwise, then they have a duty to make it public.
1. What did researchers do during the study?| A．They raised money | B．They analysed data |
| C．They interviewed patients | D．They carried cut a census |
| A．It is relatively poor. |
| B．People there care little about health |
| C．It is no use crowdifunding there. |
| D．It has the highest number of uninsured people |
| A．Poor people are less likely to have health insurance. |
| B．Poor people tend to be-less skilled in campaigning. |
| C．The social-networks of poor people tend to have low income |
| D．Rich people are unlikely to use crowdfundiug. |
| A．Crowdfunding - the future of medical care |
| B．Crowdfunding - the reasons for its decline |
| C．Crowdfunding -a dangerous trend |
| D．Crowdfunding –less effective than thought |
【推荐3】Many college students turn to ADHD(注意缺陷障碍) medicine during exam week, which is regarded as “smart drugs” that will help their academic(学术的) performance. The thinking is that if the drugs help students with ADHD improve their focus, they should provide the same benefit for people who don’t have the disorder.
But a new study shows that drugs can actually damage brain function of healthy students who take the drug hoping to boost their intelligence. “It’s not a smart drug which suddenly improve their ability to understand information they read,” said Lisa Weyandt, a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
To test whether this effect is real or not, researchers organized 13 students to take part in two five-hour study sessions(一段时间) in the lab. The students took the standard 30mg ADHD drugs before one session, and a sugar pill before the other. Students on ADHD drugs did experience an increase in their blood pressure and heart rates. “The medicine was having an effect on their brain,” Weyandt said. The students also showed an improvement in their ability to focus, the researchers found.
However, students on ADHD drugs experienced no improvement in reading comprehension, reading fluency or knowledge reviews, compared to when they’d taken a sugar pill. “We read aloud stories to them and asked them to recall information from the stories,” she said. “That didn’t improve.”
Worse, the ADHD drug actually harms students’ memory. It’s often misused because people pull all-nighters and they’re tired, and they think it’s going to keep them awake. Maybe it does, but it’s certainly not going to help their academic work. The brain is still developing until the mid to late 20s. It’s important to keep it healthy. There’s also a chance that ADHD drugs could endanger a student’s heart health.
1. Why do some college students take ADHD drugs?| A．To improve their sleeping. | B．To get higher marks. |
| C．To make them feel relaxed. | D．To treat brain disorder. |
| A．Analyze. | B．Affect. |
| C．Improve. | D．Understand. |
| A．They became more focused. |
| B．Their blood pressure was reduced. |
| C．Their reading fluency was greatly raised. |
| D．They could remember better and more quickly. |
| A．In a drug instruction. | B．In a textbook. |
| C．In a travel magazine. | D．In a news report. |
