Category: Mental Health
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How Sunlight Can Change Your Mood
Do I need to sunbathe? Vitamin D prevents which diseases? Does sunlight have a good effect on our mood? What are the signs that you may be deficient in Vitamin D? We know that sunlight is critical to our health linked to vitamin D. But what about our mood? There is vitamin D2 which is…
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Stressors in the Midlife Crisis
Adults are expected to have it all together. They look back on years of experience that hopefully taught them some important lessons for life. They are dealing with growing responsibilities. This period in one’s life can come with a ton of challenges, both tangible and abstract. These are the years that are typically branded as…
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Helping Makes You Happy
The wave of refugees is once again rolling through Europe. A lot of people stay there, others are going on somewhere overseas. A lot of volunteers are needed to take care of them. But being able to help is not a one-way street. It makes us happy and is important for our own satisfaction. In…
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This Happens in Your Brain When You Drink Too Little Water
Do you think you only need to drink water when you’re thirsty? Did you know that thirst is already an alarm? Drinking water only when you’re thirsty is like putting fuel in your car only when that little alarm light comes on, saying you’re running out of gas. Is water important for the brain? Our…
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Dealing with Stress as a Young Adult
After you’ve settled into a career, you face a whole new type of stress in your late twenties and thirties. You’re well past the point now where you have to worry about stresses from school such as bullying or grades, but now you’re in a whole new situation: your job, your family, and to a…
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Dealing with Bipolar Disorder: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
Do you suffer from bipolar disorder? Do you have anyone in your family who is bipolar? We need to know how to deal with it. Let’s review a few concepts about bipolar affective disorder.
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What is Getting Teenagers Stressed Out?
One of the most prevalent times for stress to arise in one’s life is in the teenage years. This time involves a lot of changes that can be stressful for many. So what is getting a teenager really stressed out? At the earlier end, many kids are going through puberty and through their awkward years.…
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How to Free Yourself from Your Past and Cure Emotional Wounds
Do you suffer from emotional wounds of things that happened to you many years ago? Or do you feel a certain anguish and do not know where it is coming from? Today we are going to deal with some very simple tips, but if you practice them, you can improve some emotional struggles that you…
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How to Control Stress by Creating a Productive Environment™
How often do you feel stressed looking at papers piled on your desk, browsing through hundreds (and for many people, thousands!) of emails, or searching for your glasses, a book, a form, or a piece of equipment? Your ability to accomplish any task or goal is directly related to your ability to find what you…
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What is Stressing Out Kids?
When people think about who gets stressed out, their last thought is kids. From an adult’s perspective, kids have nothing to stress about. They don’t pay bills, they don’t have to work, and all they do is hang around all day playing, chatting with friends and eating. So what is stressing them out? Theoretically, all…
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Handling Stress Before It Happens
Stress is something that everyone in the world will experience. Some of us deal with a lot of stress – others, not as much. But one thing that we all have in common is that we all have a reaction to stress. When something happens to cause stress, we’ll react in either positive or negative…
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Addicted to What?
Hands speak volumes. The Russian author Tolstoy describes in a stirring language how a visitor observes the hands of the players in a casino. They express so many things. There are the completely relaxed ones, because they don’t care whether they win or not. Perhaps the one who owns the hands can still afford to…