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Passionflower Helps Anxiety
If you suffer from anxiety, you might be surprised to learn that flowers can help. But not flowers delivered by the florist. The passionflower is often used as an herbal remedy for a number of purposes, one of which is anxiety. The passionflower ...
How Do You Feel About Yourself?
Anxiety is more prevalent than ever in today’s society. It seems that new sources of stress become apparent each and every day. But in many cases, external stressors are not the primary cause of anxiety. Sometimes a poor self-image is to ...
Anxiety: Changing Your Lifestyle May Be the Answer
Anxiety is a complex disorder. It can take on many different forms, and the treatment that works for one person may prove useless for another. There are many different drugs, herbs, counseling programs, and alternative treatments that may be used...
How Effective Are Herbal Treatments for Anxiety?
Anxiety can have a profound effect on one’s life. It may affect our work and social lives, and it can wreak havoc on our relationships with others. Prescription drugs are often effective against anxiety, but what if we prefer not to take sy...
The Psychology Behind Thin versus Fat
There are some aspects of our body types that we have little or no control over. Where we carry our fat is inherited from our parents. Our natural metabolism rates are also somewhat dependent on genetics. But for the most part, it’s the c...
Climb That Mountain No Matter What
Physical disabilities pose special challenges to athletes. What if you wanted to climb a mountain? Would it still be possible with a physically challenged body? The answer is yes, but only if you want it bad enough. Physically challenged indivi...
Taking Medication for Your Mental Health Issues
In recent years, it has become more and more common to take medication for mental health issues. While these problems used to be treated mostly with therapy and many now outdated procedures, there are now pills to treat almost every disorder you ca...
Mental Health Is Hard to Diagnose
In most cases, medicine is simple. We go to a doctor, they run tests, give us prescriptions, and we get better. We’ve gotten used to this straightforward system. This is probably why we can get very frustrated with mental health issues, becau...
Finding the Right Treatment for Mental Health Issues
If you are suffering from a mental health problem, it probably seems like every few months there’s a new medicine or therapy available. With all these options, from therapy to different classes of drugs, to alternative medicines, it’s hard to k...
Product Review: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Psychiatrist, Kay Redfield Jamison, is turning the tables in An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. Unlike her previous book, Touched with Fire, Jamison turns the mirror on herself as she also suffers with manic depression. She has taken the...
Product Review: Understanding Mental Health Illness and Schizophrenia
Do you want to learn more about a family member who has been diagnosed with a mental illness or schizophrenia? Maybe there is someone you know who has been showing symptoms of a mental illness and you would like to have more information before you co...
Physical Challenges and Marathoners
Physical challenges don’t have to rob you or your loved ones of a full life. Many physically challenged people make great strides in their lives each day. If you want to participate in a marathon, don’t let your physical challenges hinder you...
Help Manage the Pain for Your Loved One
No one wants to see the people they love suffer. However, sometimes with severe injury or illness, pain is simply unavoidable. That’s why it’s important to know how to help manage, treat, and cope with the pain your loved one might be feeling...
Finding the Right Doctor to Diagnosis Your Mental Health Issues
If you think you have a mental illness, it’s hard to know where to start looking for help. With all the new diagnoses, medicines, treatments, and online resources, you’re probably over-informed and feeling totally overwhelmed. That’s why it...
How Coping with a Disaster Can Affect Your Mental Health
It used to be the case that if someone experienced a disaster or other extremely stressful situation, they were given a certain amount of time to grieve and then were simply expected to get over it. Now we realize that some people are just incapabl...
Is It ADHD or a Bad Diet?
You have had trouble concentrating at work. It seems as if you’ll go stir crazy if you have to wait more than five minutes for anything. The problem could be attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. What is ADHD? We hear the acronym...
Music Therapy for Pain Relief
Music is said to calm the savage beast. What about pain? Studies show that music therapy is instrumental (no pun intended) in reducing pain in patients with arthritis and other conditions. Many people of all ages suffer from pain in their body. ...
Hearing Loss or Selective Hearing
Hearing loss can be a very stressful, not only for the person who’s losing their hearing, but also for their spouses and other loved ones. Hearing loss can put a severe strain on any relationship, especially if it’s untreated or undiagnosed. ...
Is It a Disability or a Physical Challenge?
We often hear the words “disability” or “physically challenged” used to refer to a variety of physical conditions, but many of us don’t really know what these words mean or why we use them. A disability is simply a deviation...
How to Tame the Tantrum of a Physically Challenged Child
Discipline is a hard issue for many parents. What do you do when a child throws a tantrum? The answer may escape us but when the child is a physically challenged loved one, we are often even more at a loss for what to do. It is not uncommon for c...
Product Review: Against Depression
Against Depression is a revolutionary evaluation of the science of mood disorder – a field that has taken leaps and bounds forward in the past decade. Peter D Kramer, also author of the best seller- Listening to Prozac, takes the reader through the...
Product Review: Undoing Depression
Do you feel that your life is being held back because of your depression? Are you living with a loved one or have a friend that is suffering with depression and you want to understand and assist them to find help? Undoing Depression is the perfect bo...
Social Phobia Makes Stepping Out the Door Impossible
We all know what it’s like to be afraid of social interaction. The first time we ask a boy or girl out, a big speech at school, our first piano recital. Being afraid of being embarrassed in public is normal. However, for people with social ph...
Anxiety Disorders Are Real
We’ve all felt anxious at one point or another; it’s a perfectly normal response to stress. Feeling fear and anxiety actually helps us to cope and accurately respond to stressful situations. However, people with anxiety disorders feel stress ...
Your Depression Affects Your Whole World
If you have experienced depression, you know how much it can affect your life. Overwhelming feelings of sadness can make your life much more difficult, making each day a challenge. What many people don’t realize is that the effects of depressio...
Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenia
While most people have heard of schizophrenia, few people actually understand what it is and how it really affects a person’s life. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that can negatively impact not only the lives of people who have it, but...
Toddlers Facing Physical Challenges
As children with physical challenges age, their differences can become more apparent. The toddler stage will find kids exploring their surroundings and themselves. Learn how to help your toddler face their physical challenges. Firstly, a physical...
Facing a Physical Challenge with Your Newborn
It begins like this. You look forward to the day that your baby is born with trembling anticipation. Then, you find out that their birth has brought with it a set of physical challenges. It’s not easy to learn how to face your newborn’s phy...
Aging - How It Affects Your Sleep Pattern
We all know how important a good night’s sleep is to living a healthy life and feeling rested throughout the day. If you don’t get enough sleep, or don’t get a good quality of sleep, you can not only be left dragging mentally, you can also su...
Impact of Aging on Vision
It is a fact of life that as we age so does our bodies. We can fight gravity to an extent but our organs also age on the inside. One organ affected by age is our eyes. People who have never worn glasses find out that they need them for reading or...
