Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

12/04/2009

Hair Care in a state of depression


Depression produces vasoconstricicón phenomenon, ie a decrease in the caliber of the blood vessel by contraction of muscle fibers.
At that moment everything seems to become slower, the blood does not circulate at a good pace and not the lymphatic system, eyes swollen and dull complexion.

But not everything happens in the skin, hair also becomes a victim. Vasoconstriction takes from the hair bulbs proper vascularization, causing the hair loses shine and vigor.

So depressed in situations of crisis or in stages, pay special attention to the hair, applying nourishing creams and washed with warm water, massaging the scalp with the fingertips and gently (never with nails and with violence).

Breathing exercises against anxiety and depression


In most people, stress causes agitation or distress, which is worsened by breathing with your chest instead of the diaphragm. The keys to relaxation are the expiration - regular and deep inspiration, and concentration in the breathing process.
If you breathe consciously, once you notice a positive effect and relaxing: three deep breaths often enough to notice the first signs of relief from stress.
Breathing exercises are a fast and efficient help against stress, because they disrupt the body's natural reaction to problems.

1. As a general rule, the relaxation of inspiration is performed through the nose bottom and mouth slightly ajar. The nose hairs clean the inspired air, while it warms and moistens the lungs so that it can better tolerate.

2. Breathe intensity does not mean, as is generally believed, accelerate or breathe in and breathe the air as quickly as possible. This can very easily cause wheezing call (hyperventilation), capable of breaking the balance between acid and alkali content of the body and cause dizziness, tingling in hands or feet, muscle twitching and even stiffness. To avoid expiration must be done slowly, because it should last twice as long as inspiration.

3. After each breath is a natural pause, because all the breathing muscles are now relaxed and at rest. Only when the respiratory center of the brain gives the order to inspire air, regain their normal activity. Hence the importance of respecting the pause in all exercises Respiratory and wait until the body requires re-inspire. This allows for optimal relaxation of respiratory muscles.

4. If breathing exercises are performed in a room, always ventilate before because the stale air and charged no value energizing.

5. He should wear loose, comfortable clothing.

6. It must ensure that no one bothers.

9/01/2009

Depression in the Elderly


When a person retires, there is a violent cut of a routine of many years of work. Suddenly, he finds he has nothing to do. After the first week is very common to fall into a depression. This is manifested by the loss of enthusiasm, love of life, the concern for others and curiosity.

So for not sick of boredom, it is important to have a project that gives meaning to life. It is connected with those things that really attract and encourage him to continue. Contact with family, participate in workshops or meet with people who are in the same situation may be the solution. Is the worst? sit still and shut up, as if the end of work was connected with his life.

8/06/2009

Risk of depression


To investigate whether depressive symptoms are associated with risky sexual behaviors, a U.S. team conducted a large study that included questions to 4152 boys and girls who had been interviewed in 1995 on the matter and also a year later. The level of depression of the participants was evaluated through a questionnaire of 19 questions.

The guys that scored the first interview are those who recognized a year after failing to use protection or birth control methods in their last sexual encounter. Also showed a greater tendency to consume drugs or alcohol before their last intercourse. The girls had a higher score less used condoms and other methods to prevent an unwanted pregnancy and those that were had three or more sexual partners in the past year.

Other studies have suggested a link between depression and sexual risk, but this analysis is unique because the sample is large, representative and has been observed for a year. "Young people are more anxious and isolated tendency to yield to the time of sexual intimacy to share," the report said. They can also use sex to cope with their symptoms of depression.

8/04/2009

Alcoholism and depression


A group of scientists says it found a gene linked to both alcoholism and depression, could improve the detection of people at risk or designing new treatments.

A psychiatrist and geneticist from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of King's College London, explained that if genetic discoveries are confirmed case a new route for the development of drugs used to treat depression and alcoholism. Previous studies conducted with twins and adopted siblings revealed the possibility of common genes among people with depression or abuse alcohol.

These disorders appear to be hereditary. According to the psychiatrist, is the first time is a specific gene (CHRM2) increases the risk of contracting these diseases.

6/01/2009

The moodiness and depression creates health concerns

If something is about to make you lose the patience ... count to ten before. This sage advice is well founded scientific experts say that people living in a bad mood and with a frown gathering, are prone to suffer from deep depression and related illnesses.

Researchers from the Medical School of Ohio in the United States conducted a study on 90 women and found that those who are irritated and negatlvldad expressed through the face (frowning or tightening the teeth) make it difficult, without knowing the blood flow in the brain responsible for controlling emotions and states of anxiety and depression.

Sadness and depression that differ

Depression is an emotional disorder that may have any person at any age. It is often confused with depression, sadness, what are the differences?

Sadness:
• Expression of pain, as crying, which also relieved.
• The emotions are strong.
• Pain in the heart.
• Do not miss the humor,
neither the power to feel other emotions.
• Feeling of alternation of emotions, it is possible to overcome them.
• Do not lose self-esteem.
• No removal of others. Sadness can even closer to people.
• No loss of motivation.
• Generally little harsh.

Depression:
• In general, fail to mourn. When it occurs, does not alleviate the crying.
• Emotions are confusing.
• The heart seems to be empty.
• Loss of sense of humor and the ability to feel emotion.
• Feeling of being in prison,
and unable to open to new experiences.
• You lose self-esteem.
• Distance.
• You lose motivation.
• Lasts a long time and requires professional help.

11/17/2008

Laughter - a gesture that heals

Do better ourselves is part of the growth of human beings. Each new day is imposing new obstacles that we must overcome to move forward in life. Many times, the passing was not in the quantity of books that we can find on a topic or hours of autoreflexión about the way we act.

Do better is to learn to laugh at ourselves, without censorship, providing a second chance. Mistakes, mistakes lead us to know further, namely to live with flaws and virtues.
It is scientifically proven that laughter can cure or relieve from heart disease until blood pressure. And not only improves health, but also beautifies us to the other.

In addition to the healing power of laughter at the physical level, psychologically helps relieve depression, states of anxiety and distress.

When you enter into a pit of depression, the ability to do something for personal gain is within oneself. We are what we think and what we demonstrated in each of our actions. Nothing justifies that a small altercation completely ruin the jomada. Nothing is final and there will always be a way to change it to do better. Life is full of opportunities. But change is imperative to open the mind, we prepare internally to receive good fortune.

Laughed when we started losing the fear, the muscles will loosen the front distiende and we can take away from the issue that concerns us.

Laughter makes lighter the load, the acceptance of our limitations and willingness everything he can. You may smile, even when everything seems to crumble. Here they left an exercise that can be put in place to help you through the smile at critical times.

* Close your eyes, register your whole body to mentally recognize the exact place where he is staying pain or concern.

* Find a way to that pain, something that it symbolizes: a stone, a thorn, a fire, a sandpaper.

* Bring much air into the area where it inhabits the concern, envuélvala with the air again.

* When you exhale feel that comes out of a concern inside and vanishes.

* Then start to jump, dance, sing, do morisquetas, practice faces rare, until it explodes into laughter. Laugh yourself, Look at that ridiculous pose no fears.

Accepted is overcome, but accepted with humor is much smarter. It speaks of an open-mindedness and a lifestyle that allows the person to grow spiritually and be happy.

11/14/2008

Flowers healing emotions

Since that alternative medicine was imposed in the pharmaceutical market, the concepts of health and disease which postulated the old school varied considerably. The man is an integrated whole: body, mind and soul. Today it is possible to heal the feelings, to rescue a person from wells depression, despondency or disaffection without using chemicals.

Among the alternative medicine, therapy floral was one of the pioneers in this to heal the soul, working with essences of some flowers which, in combination, help the man or woman to heal their emotions.

The Welsh Bach flowers, created by Dr. Edward Bach, won a place on the shelves of pharmacies. Later came the Flowers of California, and joined about 101 essences healing of the spirit.

Long after, a doctor named Ian White, created a floral therapy within which there are only 62 flowers to heal emotional problems, under the name of Bush or Australian flowers. For the first time a set of flower essences help to resolve these conflicts.

The flowers
All the unpleasant sensations or problems unresolved problems of the individual lead
physical nature necessarily. Within the vast network of human relationships are those couples that determine the state of mind of people. When things are not going well and neither have the space to express what you think, tensions build up generating a series of persistent discomfort.
For each specific case, there will be a flower that helps to unlock the emotion.

. The duration of treatment does not exceed 14 days, with a break of a week if necessary repeat the treatment. We carried out a shot in the morning and another at night. Some of these flowers are detailed below:

Trust essence: it is a flower that helps the individual to enhance self-esteem, believing in his talent and personal qualities.

Litle Flannel Flower: when the satiety ends with the ingenuity of the couple to enjoy the relationship and live new experiences, this flower awakens instincts asleep.

Emergency essence: this flower is used when conflict situations beyond psychologically generating sequels in the couple.

Kapok Bush: deshinibir this flower helps those who find it difficult to communicate and express "their feelings.

Jacaranda: It is recommended to couples to revive the passion of the early times used the discussions and intolerance among them. This will help them to flower retrieving the serenity by other means.

Fannel Flower: Used to vitalize the physical contact in the privacy for people who show little with the body and are too shameful.

Bush Gardenia: a flower is ideal for cases of couples who behave in a manner indifferent to the other, neglecting the relationship and pretending that he or she will always be.

Blue Bell: harmonizes the emotions of those people who need love and fear of losing the love of others are expert handlers of semtimientos other.

10/07/2008

Preparation for childbirth - Theory and Practice

Today, all courses in preparation for childbirth or motherhood have taken the best from each of the schools for pioneers and are a part of theoretical and physical training.

In the theoretical lessons are taught about the genitals, fertilization and the process of pregnancy. It also explains the contractions and the stages of birth, and there are some notions of paediatrics and child care. This time, in which women are very receptive to information, is used by instructors to further explain some basic knowledge of women's health, such as self breast for early detection of cancer, or contraception.

Breastfeeding is also a chapter on the formation of the expectant mother.
In the practical classes are taught relaxation, breathing and gymnastics. Each person uses the techniques of the school which has trained but, basically, are all simple, so that pregnant women can practice alone.

With gymnastics is intended to prepare the areas of the body that will withstand greater stress during childbirth. Breathing is a weapon that will help women to maintain calm and for good measure the force.

One of the most important objectives of the entire course of preparation that price is to serve as a forum for the pregnant woman who can express their fears, get rid of ancient myths, manage the anxiety that it produces its new status and prevent postpartum depression.

The presence of a psychologist to help prepare the change that represents the arrival of the baby is therefore absolutely imperative. Prepartum courses typically consist of ten lessons that are taught in as many weeks. Each class lasts, typically 2 hours. They usually start in the sixth or seventh month of pregnancy.

9/22/2008

The benefits of sport

Menstrual disorders
In dives studies have shown that menstrual discomfort is increased by symptoms of stress and those that are pallida by exercise, as it decreases the states of stress and improves mood.

Diabetes
In this case, exercise does not affect the process of the disease but it is important as a means of alleviating the symptoms. Often diabetic patients who perform exercise can reduce their insulin dose.

Cancer
Lately is also pointing the possibility that the practice patterns of regular exercise can prevent the emergence of different types of cancer.

Anxiety
It has shown that the fiscal physicist helps reduce high levels of anxiety, especially if the exercise is not very intense.

Stress
It seems that the exercise provides a better tolerance to stress stimuli generators, reducing the symptoms of stress, whether psychological or physiological.

Depression
In people suffering from depression has been shown that moderate exercise may be suitable as a therapeutic. But this is so only in people who have a positive attitude towards the exercise. There are still no studies regarding its possible preventive effect.

Cognitive skills
The exercise conducted in a moderate way the tasks favor congnitivas through an increase in the attention. There are also studies that suggest that physical activity can increase the creative capabilities of the person who practices.
It seems that this improvement in cognitive abilities is particularly in the elderly.

7/27/2008

Depression child

The theme of depression at the stage of infancy, is very impressive. All we think that this is a time of happiness and joy permanent, and that the sadness and concern for those who are in childhood, are totally temporary. However, this state is often more frequent every day and a disorder totally poignant because of their serious problems.

It is necessary to distinguish depression as appropriate emotional response to a critical moment, the disease of depression. Any child can go through moments like depressive reaction to losses or changes, what constitutes a normal emotional response. But when this situation becomes chronic and can not be overcome with the passage of time it is an emotional disorder, rather complex.

As symptoms are central irritable mood or sadness, and loss of ability to enjoy. The child is listless, without wanting to nothing, or chronically of malhumor, intolerant and evil character.

Thus, depression manifests itself in a manner masked by various disorders that in turn give a misleading impression and hinder their recognition

Here is a list of these symptoms, so you can recognize this kind of state in small around you:

Decreased self-esteem: the child has a demeaning image of himself, is self-critical, and has a feeling of inferiority.
Loss of interest: the boy is bored is not apathetic have little motivation plays and is always tired.
Withdrawal: It costs linked with the other children, it is not integrated well with their group, tends to isolate itself, chooses solitary activities like watching television too many hours.
Difficulty managing aggression: have frequent fights, tantrums, behavioural disorders, or inhibition of aggression (not quarrel, neither defends nor).
Loss of ability to concentrate: the child disperses far have trouble paying attention. This leads to a decline in school performance.
On sleep disorders: insomnia or hypersomnia presents.
Eating Disorders: lose or increase the appetite or weight.
Somatic symptoms that have no organic cause: the smaller the child, most tend to express their problems through his body. In schoolchildren, are more frequent headaches.

What a child cope with depression

To diagnose depression, it is necessary to conduct a full psicodiagnóstico, which explores various aspects of the child, in addition to the observable symptoms that give a holistic view of the situation thereof.

First, allow us to know their personalities, their feelings, their fantasies and ideals. It also leads to know what their fears. Reconstruct also his life story, with special attention to losses, exceedances, die or change.

Another central issue for diagnosis is an understanding of the dynamics of the family in which the child is inserted: the relationship with their parents or brothers and sisters, its place in the family, the personality of their FATHER, etc..

Some elements who are in families of children depressive, depression in one of their parents, overt or covert rejection towards the child, family duels that have not been developed and especially the instability in the link with the child ( Parents changing, often absent or unavailable, which did not allow him to have little uniformity in the emotional experience and what undergo a chronic frustration).
The psicodiagnóstico, also lets you choose the most appropriate therapeutic strategy. The psychological treatment, resulting in a marked improvement in depressed children, and generally makes it unnecessary use of psychoactive drugs.

According to the problem, indicate an individual therapy, or family tie, while they give their parents a guide to understand and better assist its small.

7/23/2008

Factor X, impact on women

Diseases and treatments do not act the same in men and women. Even lifestyle carry different implications for the health of each gender.
Here are some examples.

Depression
Women are two to three times more likely to suffer from this disorder.

ETS
They are twice as risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) in an erotic encounter.

Anesthesia
On average, women wake up from anesthesia in 7 minutes and 11 in him.

Medicines
Antihistamines, antibiotics, painkillers and other drugs generally cause different reactions and side effects in both sexes.

Osteoporosis
80% of those suffering from osteoporosis is female.

Myocardial
Although men suffer more strokes, they are more likely to have a second in the first year.

Alcoholism
Compared to men, women produce less gastric enzyme that breaks ethanol, which increases its concentration in the blood.

Autoimmunity
Three out of four people suffering from diseases-au-toinmunes lupus, multiple sclerosis, arthritis are reumatoi-of-feminism.

Smoking
The snuff is more addictive in women and produces more damage to their cardiovascular system than for men.

7/08/2008

Symptoms of a psychotic

The sense of Political decoy brings us closer to the field of psychosis, a type of mental disorders in Spain that affect 440,000 people, according to the Congress for Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other psychoses, 2006.

To focus the issue, should be distinguished from psychotic disorders of the neurotic; those-such as depression-affecting the mood, but do not "lose your head", while the psychosis is characterized by the loss of a sense of reality and the vision of the world that shares the generality of humans.

Woody Allen said that "a psychotic is someone who thinks that two two are five, a neurotic knows that there are four but does not like." According to the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, there is another difference: "in psychiatry is a person qualifies for neurotic if you suffer for their problems, and if you suffer from psychotic to others."

The most common symptoms of psychosis are in the form of cognitive disorders, perceptive, emotional and behavioural. The first-the cognitive-affecting intelligence, reason and understanding and make, for example, ideas of who suffers from becoming strangers to each other.

It also alters the thread of thought: no one understands the relationship they have with some other ideas except the affected. His speech becomes confused, his thoughts seem to accelerate or slow down and has difficulty concentrating, follow the thread of the conversation or remembering recent events.

Sometimes cree suffers from delusions and unusual things, for example, by the way that cars parked next to his house, thinks that the police are monitoring him and any reasoning or evidence against achieved disappointments.

7/04/2008

Depression and anxiety

Its incidence increases from 55-60 years.
And not because pensions and early retirement feel fatal, but because, as they say, usually one of the first symptoms of Andropause.

Treatment against depression by electrical impulses

At the hospital Henri Mor-dor of Creteil, France, Dr. Jean-Pascal Le-faucheur not question their patients with deep depression about the traumas of his childhood nor drugs were administered to lift the mood.

His technique, called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), se basa en la magia de-magnetic impulses similar to those of a resonance, but much more focused, which apply on the cortex of the brain to relieve symptoms.

Specifically, the EMT create small electric fields in the left prefrontal area, exciting neurons. According to the frequently applied, increases or decreases brain activity.
Although this non-invasive and painless technique is not new, in recent years has refined its effectiveness in various mental disorders such as hallucinations, migraines, epilepsy and, above all, depression.

In addition, using this as a tool for research: So, in a recent study that has worked himself Lefaucheur doctor, EMT has detected an asymmetry in the cortex of depressed.

7/02/2008

Adolescence is compounded

Approximately 10% of children and adolescents suffer from mental disorders, behavioral or development, although only one third receive treatment.

The most common disorders are anxiety, attention deficit and conduct disorder in food and depression.

6/06/2008

The pursuit of happiness

The pursuit of happiness has ido a constant throughout the history of mankind. The yearning of balance through the simple life is not a recent problem. We can explore ancient civilizations and discover all efforts to find answers.

The money, consumption, the rush, the stiff competition, labor, property accumulated, are all synonymous with success in our society. The rush to come first, by consuming and acquire the latest model or brand, either car, clothing or computers; have resulted in a situation where a large majority of people feels not find out. This is also compounded by the feeling of failure, thinking that the goal had always dreamed that this was not, or if you have reached the base to keep a daily dose of adrenaline, so you avoid the scorned, struggles with the bank, with co-workers, with your heads, and others. Too much hurry, too many tensions, less human relationships, less time for yourself and your desires, worse food, but atmosphere, worst dreams, in order. Progress can not be this, we have been ido out of hand.

The television, advertising, press, we have sold an image that has managed to persuade us that there is no other way of life. Maybe it is no other way of life. In the best we can begin to be masters of our existence without hitting the clock, breaking the chains that bind us as slaves to work. Ending our unhealthy relationship with money, spend less. Stop the train and we approach our lives simpler pleasures and we all have within our grasp, though in principle we are not aware of its existence, breathe deep, touching the ground and set more realistic goals and nearby. In it are thousands of people in more developed countries on the planet, claiming their right to be treated as citizens and not merely as consumers.

But we must be aware that happiness begins with feeling good with a single, assume your desires, let not influenced by society or by preconceived outline of the same.

It's more than that ever seen the kind of situations mentioned above, lead to a general anxiety and depression, increasingly common in all societies in the world. While you can not give recipes for happiness, we can only try to discover that everyone inside it what it is failing, and gradually alter their habits to their preference more real.

The vital objectives that were operating before them now have stopped motivating people, causing anxiety and feelings of guilt.

5/05/2008

How to express the bad feelings

At the present time, the psychology coincides in that the calls "bad feelings" are not another thing that the necessary and healthy expression of our dissatisfaction, and not something of what we must feel guilty or to be embarrassed. They are part of the emotional necessary hygiene.

However, this doesn't mean that we should make of the bad feelings an emotional chronic style. Anyway, you are such the repair of many people toward those "bad feelings" that often it happens to us desapercibida the comprehensive range that you exist as for them.

The anger, the bitterness, the anger, the rage, the anger, the fear, the jealousies, the spite, the offense, the deception, the failure, the interior conflict, the aggression, the hole or the resentment; they are some of the "bad so many more habitual feelings" in the current society.

So that all they come out out, we offer you a series of exercises in steps.

1- You accept that in some occasions you have bad feelings.
2- You recognize that you feel the necessity to express them.
3- You think that the bad feelings are so yours as the good ones.
4- I know conciente of the bad feelings expressed by people of your environment and, of being possible, note them in a paper.
5- You separate those that you consider that they were expressed in a respectful way, of those that were not it.
6- You also score, the advantages that it suppose to express them correctly.
7- Make a list, you either cut or long, of those bad feelings that you have experienced lately.
8- You take you note of how you expressed them or, of those that you have swallowed yourself and how you have felt according to ésto.
9- Rescríbelos, heading the note with you formulate it: "When so-and-so told me or you made such a thing... I felt this way (pointing out your feelings)."
10- You imagine that are again in each one of those status, reformulando your expression this way: "When you behave this way with me, I sit down this way (you express the bad feeling again)." This way, you will cheer up to say it in new status, in a direct way and without feeling blame!

You remember, the biggest obstacle is the fear to the possible consequences after having expressed "difficult" words. But not to make it can in the worst in the cases, to generate psychosomatic illnesses. Hence, you are more what we win that what we lose.

Who cheer up to express your bad feelings, paradoxically, every time they have more love to share.