Stress Relief: Why Am I Stressed & What are Stress Related Symptoms

Why you should know something about stress While moderate amount of stress is essential for normal growth and maturation, excessive stress combined with poor coping and managing invariably leads to loss of tranquility of mind; emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression; and physical disorders such as obesity, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, and many other disorders. Stressed-out people often resort to drinking alcohol, taking street drugs smoking cigarette and overeating, gambling and promiscuous sex in a futile attempt to cope with their stress, not to…

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Negative Effects of Over Eating

By Jason Ladock Overeating is a disorder which not only affects physical health but causes a lot of stress at the mental and emotional level also. Some people tend to eat just because they feel bored or they have nothing to do! Others get into such undesirable habits to improve their physical appearance. Emotional mood swings like anger, sadness, distress, disappointment or betrayal makes people eat a lot more than they realize. In certain cases, medications for other treatments cause hunger due to which people start eating a lot. Overeating causes…

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MYTHS ABOUT DEPRESSION THAT ARE NOT TRUE

Depression is a mood disorder that drains you off hope, motivation and energy and keeps you in a consistent feeling of sadness. Clinically, there may be a wide range of causes for depression ranging from disturbed sleep, hormones, inheritance, brain chemistry or biological differences. ? Depression is much more common than we think and most of us will have some form of depressive illness  at least once in our lifetime. Here Are Some Myths About Depression That Are Totally Baseless: Ⓜ MYTH : DEPRESSION IS NOT AN ILLNESS, BUT A STATE…

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Depression: How to deal with it naturally

Depression is first characterized by denial followed by anger. People do not accept that they suffer from depression; they brush it off as just a low point in their life. New Delhi: Depression is world`s leading illness and is one of the major reasons for suicides globally, says the World Health Organization (WHO). The story in India is no different.Everyone gets depressed at some point or other in life. On this note, there is a difference between feeling low for a short period and clinical depression. The good news is,…

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Depression is not a weakness, say health experts

 – By Prasad Joshi  With ‘Depression: Let’s talk’ being the theme of World Health Day falling on Friday, health experts have stressed that the curable mental disorder should not be considered as weakness of an individual. Exhorting the need for doing away with the social stigma associated with depression, experts have urged that those affected should not suffer in silence and open up about the mental agony or trauma they are undergoing. Psychiatrist Sanjeev Saoji said, “We have often found that a person – trying to open up about his…

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