Mood disorder has been getting their share of sufferers. Almost 44 million Americans fall victim to a certain type of mental disorder every year. Aside from complex imbalances in the brain's chemistry, you can also credit the increased incidence of mood swings to certain environmental factors that can trigger the onset of such disorders.
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Take Vitamins to Mitigate Mental Illness
The concept of nutrition and mental illness is not a particularly popular topic. Many people cannot readily make the link between mental health and nutrition. The simple fact though is that proper nutrition boost optimum biochemistry within the body and the brain. The brain in turn facilitates moods and mental processes, and naturally benefits from proper nutrition as well.
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How can leptin be linked to bipolar disoder?
Leptin, a protein hormone that greatly affects the regulation of body weight in terms of metabolism and reproductive function, is one of the possible factors that affect the development of bipolar disorder.
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Determining early bipolar disorder syndrome
Determining the early signs of bipolar disorder syndrome in children is quite a challenge for medical practitioners. The disorder in children manifests differently and doesn't follow the normal course as it would in adults who suffer from the syndrome. And to make matters worst, not only is it difficult to diagnose but the symptoms overlaps and is very similar to other childhood disorders like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
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Helping little ones cope up with sadness…
Sadness-just like any emotion-is a normal emotional phase any person has to go through. Due to the drastic shifts and changes in the events in people's lives, sadness occurs and usually lightens as soon as a difficulty or an issue is resolved. But, if not given proper attention, sadness can lead to depression that can cause more complicated emotional disturbances.
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If you're the sort of person who tends to place yourself down or never gives yourself the benefit of the doubt, you may have a tendency to trigger a nonessential anxiety. It might then lead to intensive worry or perhaps depression. And the very next thing you know you are having a panic attack, can't do anything right and feel hopeless.But there are ways to eliminate panic attacks completely…
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Check out this informative article on teenage depression…
10 Negative Effects Of Teen Depression
Teen depression can have detrimental effects on your child's life. The first step to helping is to identify the difference between sadness and true depression.
Interestingly, there are differences between teen depression and adult depression, which makes it a bit more difficult to tell when a teen is depressed.
Irritable or angry: this quite often is the most common result of depression and might play out as being grumpy, hostile, easily frustrated or experiencing frequent outbursts of anger.
Vague aches and pains: headaches, stomach aches and other such complaints that do not seem to have a physical or medical cause can indicate that your teen is depressed.
Sensitive to criticism: While some sensitivity to criticism can be normal, a teen who appears overly upset is likely suffering from depression. Depressed teens often have low self esteem and self worth, making them more sensitive to rejection and failure.
Withdrawal from friends: Teens are likely to maintain some friendships while staying actively involved with others when they are depressed. Adults, on the other hand, tend to withdraw completely from family, friends and acquaintances. One sign to watch is when your teen drops old friendships and starts up with an entirely new crowd, especially if the crowd has different views than your teen.
It is crucial that teen depression be treated early to prevent serious and perhaps permanent problems. Left untreated, depression can lead to these 10 outcomes.
1. Low self esteem, triggered by feelings of worthlessness, failure, and inferiority.
2. Eating disorders including bulimia, anorexia and binge eating.
3. Problems at school resulting from low energy and difficulty concentrating. Watch for low grades, poor attendance, and lack of patience to complete schoolwork.
4. Running away is one cry for help by teens who are depressed.
5. Substance abuse (alcohol and drugs)
6. Self injury including various kinds of self-mutilation such as burning, cutting, hair pulling are sure signs of depression.
7. Other addictions including computer games and Internet surfing as an escape mechanism.
8. Violence becomes predominant in some depressed teens, which is based in self-hatred and hatred of others that can lead to homicide.
9 Dangerous or reckless behavior covers such things as binge drinking, unsafe sex, reckless driving and other careless behaviors.
10. Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are exceptional cries for help. Depressed teens who think of suicide will make death-related comments and talk of killing themselves. It is imperative to get immediate help for any teen or talks of suicide or death wishes.
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Children and Depression – What Parents Can Do
What you should think about first is recognition. Essentially, childhood depression is an illness where feelings of depression continue for extended periods of time, and negatively affects the child's ability to function and cope. You may notice that depression can manifest in a variety of ways, from your children's moods and their physical appearances, to their behaviors and their mental states. You might notice a child who was once interested in a variety of things, let his or her world shrink a great deal by shutting them out of his or her life completely due to depression. Also, you may observe various physical symptoms, including weight and appetite loss, problems with digestion, headaches, migraines or irregular sleeping habits.
When thinking about childhood depression, bear in mind that younger children will usually develop more physical symptoms than older kids. This is because younger children tend to have less ability to express themselves as compared to older and more matured children.
If you wish to fight childhood depression, you ought to educate yourself on the issue. Speak with a professional counselor who has experience in this field and see what you can learn from him or her. The therapist will most likely have you bring the child in for several individual sessions to diagnose his condition.
When thinking about what you can do for your child on a more personal, day to day basis, you can begin by ensuring that you are always there for your child. Make sure that all lines of communication are kept open, and that your child knows that he can always go to you for all his needs. Many children feel that they are alone in the problems they face. Thus, simply reassuring them that they are not can make a huge difference in your child's life. Learn more about what your child does and his or her interests to improve your relationship. Encourage your child by providing good advice when there is a need to and lend a listening ear when he needs one.
Remember that childhood depression is something that is a very real today. Depression is a condition that both children and adults suffer from. So, understanding the relationship between children and depression will give parents a greater idea of how they can manage and prevent their children's condition from worsening.
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According to a twenty-year study by Kaiser Permanente, between seventy
and eighty-five percent of illness is caused by stress, meaning that in
the U.S. alone stress is costing us about one-trillion dollars per year
in healthcare costs. Since most absenteeism is due to stress, US
business is losing upwards of $300 billion per year.
On a more personal level, it is disturbing to realize that aging is
accelerated by stress, and stress is a growing issue with all of us.
Studies show that change is stressful, even "good" change. So as we
computer jockeys settle into the saddle of a new age of rapidly
changing information, we need an edge that can help us stay healthy,
sane, "younger" and more vibrant, even as we are often at the very
center of the hurricane of modern change, such as keeping up with new
hardware and software.
Ironically an ancient mind/body tool provides the perfect balm for our
generation's modern problems — it is called "Tai Chi" (pronounced
tie-chee). T'ai Chi is a gentle series of relaxing motions that cleanse
the body's tissue of accumulated stress and, by doing so, boosts all
aspects of our health systems. According to emerging research
boosting the immune system's strength dramatically, while reducing the
incidence of depression, anxiety, and even reducing chronic pain
conditions, are just a few of T'ai Chi's myriad benefits.
What makes ancient T'ai Chi the perfect modern balm is that it doesn't
require special facilities or clothing, and doesn't even make you break
a sweat, meaning you can do it in office attire in an empty boardroom
just by kicking off your heels. Yet, it provides the same
euphoria of a long run, the cardiovascular benefit of moderate impact
aerobics, and burns nearly as many calories as downhill skiing.
Our time is filled with paradox. A problem in this modern age stems
from the great promise of the information age — a tidal wave of data
being created by and offered to our "left brain"; that part of our
minds that is analytical, calculating, and categorizing the world. Of
course, this is a powerful and important part of who we are. This is
the part of the mind that gets things done, pays the rent, builds the
houses, and makes the cars. Our "right brain,"
however, is getting left behind in our rapidly changing techno-world,
and this imbalance of thought processes is at the heart of modern
stress.
Our right brain is the feeling, smelling, sensing . . .
enjoying part of the mind. This is the part of the mind that smells the
flowers, not to analyze the smell, but to be filled with its beauty –
and this is the part that has been left behind in the digital world.
When we go to the cyber mall, for example, our right brain doesn't get
to play. The cyber mall is a wonderful thing that saves us time, money,
and gas for our cars (and thereby saves the environment), but there are
no Auntie Anne's Pretzels to smell in cyberspace, or warm sunlight
streaming in through the big skylights.
So what do we do? We get the best of both worlds. T'ai Chi is a series
of exercises to balance the mind. T'ai Chi teaches us to experience
life for sheer pleasure, thereby creating balance in our busy "get
things done yesterday"
world. If you learn T'ai Chi and practice in the morning before you sit
down at your computer, your right brain (the sensing and enjoying
brain) will be turned on more. You will feel the texture of your
computer keys. You will remember to take the time to get a nice cup of
green tea or herbal cinnamon spice tea, and you'll interrupt your
staccato keyboard occasionally to smell the tea's rich aroma, feel the
warmth in your hands, and breathe the breath of life deeply into your
lungs.
Although you are at the cutting edge of the information age revolution,
you are also in the garden of life. This will give you an edge in the
long run. Why? Because chronic stress diminishes our cognitive skills
and therefore, our creativity.
Einstein said, "Creativity is more important than knowledge." Even if
we have the world's knowledge at our fingertips, if we are too stressed
out to use the knowledge "creatively," we are much less effective.
Plus, we're not as much fun!
The bottom line is T'ai Chi is a set of exercises to practice enjoying
life. It's not enough just to say, "I'm going to enjoy life more." We
actually have to practice mind/body tools that can positively affect
our brain wave activity, in an integrative way, as T'ai Chi is proven
to do.
T'ai Chi is an extremely sophisticated mind/body science that evolved
over millennia, and is now being made available to all of us after
centuries of being closely guarded secrets in China. Even though the
practices are ancient, they are in many ways just as cutting edge as
the multi-gigabyte computer.
Don't just be "cutting edge" with your left-brain. Go all the way and
stretch the envelope with your right brain, too, by weaving T'ai Chi
into your life. You will be forever glad you did, as you discover
balance and calm in the eye of the modern world's ever accelerating
storm of changes rushing at us.
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Celexa is an antidepressant used to treat clinical depression in patients. It is prescribed as a "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor" used to balance serotonin in the brain, providing relief from depression.
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