8 Things Only People With Depression Can Truly Understand Depression seems to always be making the rounds in the media, but few people without the disease understand what it’s like to have it. It’s not just feeling sad or blue, and it’s not something one can just “get over” or “snap out of.” It affects […]
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4 Relationship Problems That Are Totally Normal So you and your partner are on a downhill slope and you really don’t understand why. Just last week you two were in love and happy as can be. But this week, you can just feel something is off. With this new-found feeling of disconnection or unhappiness, you
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What Your Date Of Birth Says About Your Personality The day that you were born can say a lot about your personality and who you are as a person. According to astrology, the position that the moon, sun, Earth, and stars are in when you are born can influence the type of personality that you
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7 Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Out Of Whack When your blood sugar is not stabilized, it can affect every aspect of your daily life. Your organs, emotions, and mental state can be impacted. There are many tell-tale signs that your blood sugar is out of balance. Here are just a few of the top
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Duke University scientists find women need more sleep than men Researchers have recently discovered that lack of sleep can be more physically damaging to women than to men. Scientists at Duke University conducted a study tracking 210 middle aged men and women who were never diagnosed with a sleeping disorder. Participants in the study did
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“Why you should walk every day?” Ever wondered why do these fitness coaches vehemently emphasize on walking daily? There were times when our ancestors had no choice but to walk and that resulted into their amazing well-being, both physically and mentally. Unfortunately we are a generation that lives in times wherein time is money and
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Signs You Have Omega 3 Deficiency A number of research studies indicate omega-3 fatty acids are a critical nutrient needed to provide resistance to a number of illnesses. As the importance of omega-3 fatty acids becomes better known, more people are taking active steps to include this substance in their diets, through the foods they
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5 Tips for Boosting Your Emotional Health Being emotionally healthy means addressing psychological injuries such as rejection or failure when we sustain them with the same immediacy with which we treat physical injuries like cuts or scrapes. Taking the correct actions will not only ease our distress and prevent our wounds from festering and getting
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Many studies have shown that people who exercise regularly reap the benefits of lower rates of depression and a positive boost in mood and energy. How does exercise help with depression and anxiety? When you exercise your brain releases feel-good endorphins that ease depression. These endorphins also trigger a positive feeling in the body which
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Anxiety, Depression and Self-Abandonment By Dr. Margaret Paul Do you believe that your anxiety or depression is being caused by the past, by other people, or by events? These are often not the cause of most current anxiety and depression. Most current feelings of anxiety and depression – other than anxiety and depression that has
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Are You Secretly Lonely? Loneliness can be described in many ways: despair, emptiness, hopelessness, and longing. Loneliness is a feeling that can destroy you emotionally. The emotions attached to loneliness can be powerful enough to trigger rejection and depression. In some cases loneliness can even cause early death per psychologist John Cacioppo, PhD, University of
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Seasonal affective disorder (also called SAD) is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year. If you’re like most people with seasonal affective disorder, your symptoms start in the fall and may continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody. Less often, seasonal affective disorder causes
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Unborn Babies and Depression By Divya Shree Edited By Stephanie Dawson Reviewed By Nima Shei MD Unborn babies womb share almost everything the mother goes through during pregnancy, from food she eats to the emotions she goes through, everything impacts the development of the baby in the womb. New research found that some mothers can
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Depression Medications – Serotonin plays a fundamental role as a neurotransmitter substance in behaviors such as aggression, core temperature, mood, sleep, physical desire, and appetite. High and low levels of this neurotransmitter will impact positively or negatively human patterns in these areas. Also, the available serotonin in the brain regulates melatonin, another hormone involved in
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The normal ups and downs of life mean that everyone feels sad or has the blues from time to time, but if emptiness and despair have taken hold and won’t go away, that may be depression. Depression makes it tough to function and enjoy life like one once did. Just getting through the day can
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Talking About PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) By Andres Carvajal Edited By Stephanie Dawson Post-traumatic Stress disorder, or PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that affects many people after a traumatic event that caused intense fear ,hopelessness, or horror. This can happen as a result of personal trauma such as rape, war, natural disaster, abuse, an accident,
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How Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Affect Your Health By Andre Carvajal Edited By Stephanie Dawson Stress is a response to a stressor, anything that challenges our system and forces us to adapt to new circumstances. The brain interprets the stressor as a potential or imminent danger. Having, maintaining, or losing a job, relationship issues, or
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Burnout Syndrome: Signs, Symptoms, CausesBy: Andres Carvajal Edited By: Stephanie Dawson Contemporary society is constantly changing, evolving, and people need to adapt to the frequency of these sudden and often radical changes. Some characteristics of this contemporary era are: increased lifespan with a shortened childhood and extended young adulthood, perpetual insecurity, excess of information, changes
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