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How This Treatment For Borderline Personality Disorder Improves Empathy
There’s a new study using oxytocin (often called the love hormone) to treat borderline personality disorder. To date we really don’t have a medication treatment for the disorder. I talk about the treatment for BPD when you also have...
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Fewer wrestlers, more fans: Sumo at a crossroads
The ancient Japanese sport of sumo is in well-documented crisis. Years of controversy and scandal have hurt the sport's ability to attract new talent. But new energy is brewing in Tokyo's Ryōgoku district, where the sport is slowly...
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In troubled waters: the rescue crew saving migrants in the Mediterranean
The Guardian spends five days with the Migrants Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) meetings its crew and the migrants it saved. MOAS, a privately funded search-and-rescue vessel, was founded in 2013 and is made up of international humanitarian...
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The Vulva
Think you know about vaginas? Think again. In the four-part series running from now through November, we find out that even the most basic of body knowledge is lacking – people still don’t understand what vaginas look like or how they...
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Rebranded: how Survivors Ink is erasing the marks of the US sex trafficking industry
Pimp-led prostitution is one of the most violent and prolific forms of trafficking found in the US, with hundreds of thousands of women sold annually for commercial gain. Many are branded with tattoos by their traffickers as a sign of...
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Stonewall's Ruth Hunt tells Owen Jones: 'My heart breaks for trans communities'
The Stonewall chief executive, Ruth Hunt, talks to Owen Jones about her shock at the level of vitriol directed at transgender and non-binary people. She says the scale of abuse in the UK has contributed to high levels of self-harm,...
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Is Moldova ready to embrace an unmarried, childfree president?
Is Moldova ready to embrace an unmarried, childfree president? | Europe’s baby bust
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Europe’s 'baby bust' - can paying for pregnancies save Greece?
Greece’s population is falling fast, with low birth rates and economic instability hitting its island communities hardest. An unconventional new organisation, Hope Genesis, is attempting to inject life back into these remote areas...
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People don't even look at me': eight black women discuss politics of light and dark skin
As part of our Shades of Black series, we invited eight women to talk about their experience of colorism in their relationships, careers and everyday life.
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Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids
As part of the Guardian's Childfree series, five women discuss why having children isn't for them – and how others perceive them as a result. 'There's no wrong way to be a woman,' says Sabrina, 25
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Norway's Muslim immigrants attend classes on western attitudes to women
Every asylum seeker in Norway must attend classes on female rights and respect for women. The lessons were made compulsory after a string of sex attacks by immigrants in the western city of Stavanger. With exclusive access to a class in...
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Mona Eltahawy: All religions are obsessed with my vagina
Whether rich or poor, religious or secular, men in Egyptian society routinely harass women – and the attacks are often violent and rarely punished, says Mona Eltahawy, a journalist and speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She describes her...
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Abortion stories: from backstreet to legalisation – video
Women who had abortions either side of legalisation with the Abortion Act 1967 tell us their stories. From fears of dying in a stranger's kitchen to a safe medical procedure in the NHS, we hear how this change in the law has had a huge...
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What you didn't learn in sex ed
It’s not just about sex. Sex education should be giving us the information we need to feel in control of our bodies and make informed decisions about them – but it’s failing. In episode four of Vagina Dispatches, we speak to our moms,...
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Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive
Hungary has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is spending significant money trying to convince young people to have babies. Leah Green and Ekaterina Ochagavia visit Budapest, where they meet...
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Juste Debout: the world's biggest street-dance competition – video
Dancers from all over the world compete in the international tour of Juste Debout in the hope that they will get the chance to battle in the preliminary rounds in France and perform at the finals in Paris. This year, for the first time,...
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The orgasm gap
Women are less likely to orgasm than men – but is it really more difficult for women? There’s still ambiguity about what the female orgasm even is, let alone how to have one. In episode three of Vagina Dispatches, we (Mona and Mae) go...
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Stopping periods
Some women have chosen to stop their periods – we (Mae and Mona) are two of them. In episode two of Vagina Dispatches, we speak to a doctor who thinks periods are unnatural, a former Olympian, a menstrual blood artist and a formerly...
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Postpartum Depression - What it Really Looks Like
What Postpartum Depression Really Looks Like. This is part one of a series I’m doing on women’s mental health topics. This video is based on a viewer question from Dr. Mohammed El Sherif who is a obstetrician gynecologist with his own...
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Imposterism, Perfectionism, and Burnout – A Toxic Triad
Imposterism, perfectionism, and burnout, often occur together and can leave devastating effects of depression and anxiety. In this video, I define it for you and show you what you can do to make it better. WANT A SAFE PLACE FOR EDUCATION...
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If You Suffer from Premenstrual Dysphoria - Watch This
PMDD stands for premenstrual dysphoric disorder. This is not to be confused with Premenstrual Syndrome or PMS. PMS is changes in mood during certain parts of the menstrual cycle. It affects 80% of women. The mood changes can be mild to...
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Sleep Eating with Sleeping Pills - 4 Ways to Avoid
Sleep eating with sleeping pills. It's not that uncommon and we call it complex sleep behaviors. Other behaviors include sleep driving, sleep eating and sleep texting. Sleep driving is commonly associated with the sleeping medication,...
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Postpartum Depression Treatment – The Medication Options
This is part two of a series on women's mental health. The first video was on postpartum depression, what it looks like and how it harms your baby. This video is on how we treat postpartum depression. This would be depression that occurs...