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How Men and Women are Impacted by Depression- Dianetics and how it can help you decrease your depression and anger problems - by Submitted on May 01, 2012 from Brandon WilliamsDianetics is the science of the mind that goes over how your mind effects your life and your body in a negative way. It goes over why it is you hold back yourself and restrain yourself thus causing depression, uncontrollable rage and fear of the unknown. Your mind is the thing that holds ...
Views: 2569 - At-risk K-12 learners affected by ADHD and other mood disorders can benefit by using light and sound therapy as an intervention strategy - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2010 from Steve TaylorMy Work with students and adults affected by ADHD, mood disorders and poor sleep, using Light and Sound Therapy devices to improve their outcomes By Steve Taylor, M.S., C.E.T Recently, I managed a 5- month Charter school based demonstration project with at-risk K-12 student learners, to ...
Views: 2567(4 votes) - Dealing With Depression - by Submitted on May 23, 2011 from David OttDefining Symptoms Depression is an experience that can have a very wide range of symptoms from mild feelings of disappointment, sadness and tiredness to dark feelings of hopelessness, despair and sometimes suicide. It might be helpful to understand depression as “REPRESSION,” a pressing down ...
Views: 2560 - Love vs. Fame: The Curious Case of Whitney Houston - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Michele RisaBy Michele Risa Founder, Beyond Body Mind Spirit www.BeyondBodyMindSpirit.com There is much to be said for a life of abundance, financial security, and the freedom to do anything and go anywhere. Seems like the dream come true, yes? Just about anyone would immediately nod their head in ...
Views: 2559 - Do You Know What the Early Signs of Depression Are? - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2010 from David FordUnless someone is totally familiar with the symptoms of depression, it can be extremely difficult to diagnose, let alone help. Many people don't even know that they are suffering from depression, and in the USA over 15 million people are affected to some extent or another, and the startling ...
Views: 2557(4 votes) - Depression Hurts Everyone Around It - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2011 from Zandra SteinbergHave you ever thought about suicide? Have you ever felt like the world would be better off without you in it? Have you ever spent hours crying or lying in bed with your head covered up? Have you cut yourself off from friends and family? Do you spend copious amounts of time alone in your home? ...
Views: 2545(1 vote) - Irishman Walking (Stage 3 Chapter 2) - by Submitted on May 04, 2013 from Michael Denis CrosseyIrishman Walking is about my walking the coastal roads of Japan through a series of summer, winter, spring, and autumn stages. Stage 1 began in Cape Soya in Hokkaido in the summer of 2009, and ended in Noshiro City in Akita Prefecture seven weeks later. Last summer (2012), Stage 8 started at ...
Views: 2545(1 vote) - Joy and Depression - by Welcome! Moving to Joy and Harmony is a free e-zine that explores holistic solutions to the problems people face in their lives. It is intended to be complimentary to the services of your medical health professional. If this newsletter is informative and helpful, please forward it individually ...
Views: 2543 - How We Become Depression - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from Fariborz ArbasiOur behaviors are major causes of our depression. These behaviors are grouped into three categories: 1. Relationships 2. Activities 3. Copings Relationships The unhealthy relationship is a common cause of depression. So, an important part of depression treatment is to improve the ...
Views: 2522 - Learn about Neuronutrients - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from i-Supplements comIn today’s hectic lifestyle, stress and anxiety can wreak havoc on a person’s mental health. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a traffic jam, you run a small business, or you’re the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, managing your mind in a healthy way is an important part of living a ...
Views: 2521(1 vote) - Growing Old Gracefully - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from William CottringerGrowing Old Gracefully By Bill Cottringer “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” ~Mark Twain. It has been said before that “growing old isn’t for sissies.” The truth be known, growing old doesn’t always have to be a losing struggle against, ...
Views: 2518(1 vote) - 5 Ways to Know You've Lost Yourself - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2013 from Nicole NenningerHave you lost yourself? Are you so absorbed in your career, in your relationship, in the daily grind, or in an addiction that you've lost sight of who you are or where you'd like to be in life? Great! Say what? Well, let me reassure you that first, it's pretty common. Second, I can help ...
Views: 2513(4 votes) - Combating Depression By Building Self-Confidence - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Greg BakerOne of the main causes of depression is a lack of self-confidence. When we no longer believe in ourselves, we begin to fall into a pit of depression and anxiety. This is a Pastor’s take on building self-confidence. On one hand, we are all filled with some degree of insecurity. For most ...
Views: 2505 - The Benefits of Binaural Beats Meditation Explained - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2012 from Michael LocklearMeditation boosts your brain's levels of mood-elevating chemicals, such as: GABA HGH serotonin DHEA melatonin endorphins It helps you to control mental chatter and self-destructive impulses. A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that a meditation program was ...
Views: 2490 - Omega-3 Fatty Acids from Fish Oil - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2011 from Jeffrey RoseIt has now become widely recognized that fish oil is one of the healthiest supplements you can add to your diet. However, not just any fish oil will do. Only the fish oil free of harmful pollutants such as mercury and industrial chemicals is completely safe for consumption. And, this is also one ...
Views: 2488(1 vote) - Grow Up. Move Out. Move On. Moxie Up. - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteI often ask successful people what was the best piece of advice they ever got from a parent. What words of wisdom carried them forward as they achieved their personal and professional goals? Responses such as "Don't take anything for granted", "You have to work hard and struggle for success" ...
Views: 2482(1 vote) - Cultivating Hope - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2009 from Patricia Eslava VesseyThe holidays can be a joyous time filled with love, joy and peace, a time of festivities and fun with family and friends. However it can also be a difficult time for many. Limited financial resources, current crises, recalled losses and past disappointments can make us very sad. Even though ...
Views: 2470(3 votes) - Are You Stuffing Your Closets as a Compulsive Shopper? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite'Fess up. If you're reading this blog you may be a shopping addict. There's a world of difference between someone who shops for necessities (even luxuries) or social enjoyment and the person who shops to deaden emotional pain. Which one are you? Like a drug addict you use shopping to get ...
Views: 2463(2 votes) - Yoga tips - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2010 from Anne RosaPrasara yoga is a new style of yoga that blends elements of traditional asana, or poses, along with elements of movement, or flow. Most modern forms of yoga concentrate on one of two aspects: asana, the actual poses, or inyasa, transitional breathing between poses. Prasara yoga integrates both ...
Views: 2447(2 votes) - How to Get Over Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Wendy LauIt is natural for people to feel anxiety, sad or scared after they have undergone a traumatic or extremely stressful experience. And, naturally as well, people also recover after some time and start to live life normally again. However, for some people who experience severe trauma, the stress is ...
Views: 2441(1 vote) - Depression: the most powerful ways to overcome it - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Anna AparicioThe other day a client told me he had been taking anti-depressants. I didn’t know him to be depressed, so I asked if he had been diagnosed. He said he went to the doctor because he’d been having trouble sleeping and he’d been stressed out, and the doctor prescribed anti-depressants. I was ...
Views: 2427(1 vote) - Depression & Isolation - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2012 from Nancy TurcichDepression & Isolation by Nancy M. Turcich, NTS, RPP, RPE I’m not sure what comes first, isolation or depression. I do know the two are twins, perhaps fraternal twins since they are not identical. However, isolation and depression share a common ground... separation. People ...
Views: 2419(4 votes) - Boost Your Energy with Whole Body Vibration - by Submitted on May 14, 2013 from Becca ChambersCould you use more energy, focus, and motivation in your life? What if that boost in energy and mood also came with stronger bones and muscles, increased fat loss, and greater flexibility, balance, and coordination—all in just ten minutes a day? It’s not a fantasy. Whole Body Vibration (WBV) is ...
Views: 2418 - Depression And Men The Rising Illness - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2008 from Collin CaminoThe failing economy and rising unemployment are just some of the issues that have contributed to the rise in emotional depression. Depression is actually one of the fasting growing illnesses in the world. The secret though is that more and more men are being diagnosed with depression. Depression ...
Views: 2418 - How to Conquer Your Stress – Stress Reducer Secrets Revealed - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2009 from Dan ArdebiliWith all the responsibilities we have in the modern world we live in, it’s no wonder most people are seeking a stress reducer or stress reducers. With the increasing roles that men and women have to play, everything from businessman/women, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, dad, mom, etc., ...
Views: 2410(3 votes) - You Can't Beat Anxiety And Panic Attacks By Wishing Them Away! - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2011 from Wally BrownPerhaps you have been feeling a bit worse lately with your anxiety. When it used to not be so bad, now it comes on really strong and seems to happen when you aren't expecting it at all. If this is happening to you often, you are having panic attacks. When this unknown fear that you experience ...
Views: 2404(1 vote) - How to end depression - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2011 from M.Farouk RadwanDepression can ruin your life and hinder your progress if it lasted for a long period of time. It’s completely ok to feel down for few days or to have bad moods every now and then but if depression visited you and refused to leave then you must take certain actions to push it away quickly before ...
Views: 2402 - Depression: Can Repressed Anger Cause Depression? - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2015 from Oliver JR CooperOne of the most common mental and emotional challenges that someone can face in today’s world is depression. This is likely to be something that most people experience at one point or another. There are then going to be others who don’t experience it from time to time, they experience it on ...
Views: 2401 - How Degenerative Disc Disease Can Be Treated - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2013 from Igor StilerDegenerative disc disease is a spinal condition mostly affecting the elderly population. It can be treated effectively with non-surgical procedures including physical therapy, proper exercise, chiropractic treatment, spinal decompression, and more Aging, physical strain, and misuse can cause ...
Views: 2394 - The Moment of Desperation - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2011 from Womens Recreation, Inc.I wanted to talk about that moment of desperation. In that moment of desperation, there comes a change, an inner change. Some people do not welcome change, they are resistant to it. Some people are just too comfortable with the way things are; they can only see the negative side to making a ...
Views: 2393(1 vote) - Clinical Depression - My Experience with and the Effectiveness of Client Centered Therapy - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Dave KanofskyWhen first diagnosed with clinical depression in 1986, I did not want to talk to anyone, and I do mean anyone, about my emotional issues. That included my wife, parents, relatives, and friends After I was told that I should go to a therapist for treatment I didn't want to do that either. I ...
Views: 2392(3 votes) - The "Secret of Letting Go" - by Question: Can you help shed some light on why we are here in this life?
GF - All of our deeper personal experiences eventually come to reveal some lesson that we needed to learn. This process of events that leads us to the discovery of their cause proves both the existence of order and ...
Views: 2381 - Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Monitor Your Children's Internet Use - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2011 from Jack TaggertyThe internet is an amazing resource of information and entertainment. It is also a forum in which people can communicate with one another from all over the world. And best of all, the internet is not exclusive. Anyone can take part in online festivities. Even children can navigate the internet ...
Views: 2378(1 vote) - Too Miserable to Be Happy - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Alan ASo, are you too miserable to be happy? This may sound funny to some but I’m guessing that there are people out there who understand this all too well. There are times that you may be in a state of such tremendous negativity that it’s almost impossible for anyone or anything to positively ...
Views: 2374(3 votes) - Yoga - Top Interesting Reasons to Start Practicing Now - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2012 from Henry AlzamoraYoga has become a very famous word nowadays, it is amazing how people look for Yoga to make it part of their daily lives. No matter where are you from, if you want to use yoga for stress or not, where do you actually live, what your personal life conditions are, or your religion, creed or ...
Views: 2371(3 votes) - Treating depression using a Solution Focused approach - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2012 from Lawrence MichaelsIn this article I will be covering in quite some depth an understanding of depression and what can be done to alleviate it, based on my learning taken from the pioneering Uncommon Knowledge and Human Givens approach. So it is first very important to understand how depression works and ...
Views: 2365(1 vote) - Using These 2 All-Natural Herbal Anxiety Remedies May Help You! - What Is Your Anxiety Cure? - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2011 from Wally BrownIf you are looking for a way to treat your anxiety and panic there are a few paths you can choose. One way is to get a prescription from your doctor for a medication that could turn out to be addicting and dangerous, and another way is something like a herbal remedy. If you choose a herbal type ...
Views: 2365(1 vote) - Actor Joe Pantoliano Transforms His Depression to Empower Others - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"I am now the most miserable man living. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better." - Abraham Lincoln American film and television actor Joe Pantoliano once identified strongly with Lincoln's sad ...
Views: 2361(1 vote) - Down Time: Dealing With Unemployment Depression - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2010 from Robert ShindellYou just lost your job and your world has literally crumbled down around you. What's that smoldering over in the corner? Oh, just your dreams. Right next to the pile of rubble that used to be your retirement. Yeah, losing your job can certainly have an effect on the horizon of your life. But ...
Views: 2360 - Is Depression Contagious? - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2009 from Diana Weiss-WisdomDear Dr. Weiss-Wisdom, I’m worried that my sixteen year old stepdaughter’s depression is affecting my fifteen year old daughter. My stepdaughter is in treatment (therapy and antidepressants). Her parents say that she is better than she was before treatment and they are all happy with her ...
Views: 2358(1 vote) - Be Gentle with Yourself: Lessons from a soft-shell crab - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2011 from Natalie AmsdenSometimes insight comes from the strangest places. I was sitting on the dock in the back of my house watching the light reflect on the water and listening to the egrets calling in the mangroves. I was on the tail end of a period of several months in which I had been undergoing intense ...
Views: 2355 - Facets of Personality and Dissociation - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2013 from Roni Weisberg-RossWhen we feel different than the person we are projecting to others, it can cause stress and sometimes shame. Most of us have felt that way at times, and the ability to integrate again is usually fluid. But when we feel fragmented and fake most of the time, it can be extremely painful and ...
Views: 2344(1 vote) - How Not to be a Victim of Your Emotions: Mindfulness Therapy - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2011 from Peter StrongWhen you really look closely at anxiety, depression, fear, anger or stress, you will almost always find recurring patterns of negative thoughts, traumatic memories and habitual emotional reactions. They are our tormentors, the pesky biting insects that annoy us throughout the day. They ambush ...
Views: 2340(1 vote) - Using EFT with the Depressed Client - Collapsing Anger - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2009 from Forrest SamnikMost are familiar with the saying, “Depression is anger turned inward”. In my opinion, this is an over simplified statement. Many factors can come into play in the development of depression. However, unresolved anger should always be explored when a client presents with depression. Before ...
Views: 2338(2 votes) - Avoiding Your Feelings? Find out Why and What to Do About It - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Ron FrederickWhy do people tend to avoid feeling their feelings? It has everything to do with our early experience in life - what we learned and what we didn't learn. As I talk to people across the nation, most people agree that they didn't really learn how to make good use of their feelings when they were ...
Views: 2336(3 votes) - Building True Self Respect - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2011 from Albert de GoiasSelf Respect is the ability to maintain dignity in the face of stress, rejection, criticism, or any activity that can erode one’s value systems. In a world of imposing immensity and persistent change, the forces that can strike at anyone's value systems can be extreme, unprecedented, and ...
Views: 2334(3 votes) - Depressed? Wise Woman Ways Offer a Helping Hand - by Submitted on May 09, 2011 from Susun WeedWinter time is depression time for many women. Perhaps it is harder to look at the bright side when days are short, perhaps the holidays and family demands take their toll on us. Of course, depression can also be triggered by lack of thyroid hormone and by use of steroids, high blood pressure ...
Views: 2332(3 votes) - You Never Lose the Ability of Choice! - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Kristen BakerAs long as I can remember, I have heard myself and others say the words, " I had no choice". Sure, it may feel like there are not many choices when you are stuck in a cycle of anxiety, depression or panic. With all my heart, I know that everyone has a choice even when they are stricken with ...
Views: 2332(2 votes) - The True Cause Of Depression - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2010 from Marie O'NeilI believe there needs be greater understanding about the actual cause of depression, as the majority of the information available concerns the symptoms and how to deal with them. The problem with trying to deal with the symptoms rather than the cause of depression, is that you are just ...
Views: 2329(5 votes) - Depression Is A Spiritual Issue - by Depression, from my point of view, is cured when we become aware that it is a spiritual issue and not an inherit physical flaw or defect. This is my story about how I cured myself of chronic depression when the medical profession failed me. I am not advocating that what worked for me in regards ...
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