Women Personality and Mental Health

She was born with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Albania. Her father was a full of spirit man who was active in politics. Her mother was a wise lady who had strong character, full of discipline but kind. Agnes was raised in a Rome Catholic family. Her mother brought her children to join morning mass, taught them to pray and help people who are living in hardship. That was ‘the seed’ which grew in Agnes’ heart, that one day she made a radical decision to God, by becoming the bestfriend of the poorest.

By the age of 18 Agnes made a decision of becoming a nun to do missionary work in India, devoting her life to the poor. Agnes joined the order “Sister of Loreto”. On 6 January 1929 she arrived in India and four months later (23 May 1929) began her novitiate and changed her name to TERESA (a name of a French nun whom spent her short life in a monastery in Lisieux). On 24 May 1931 Sister Teresa took her religious vow, she was later assigned to Darjeeling, a town in the hill of Himalaya to teach at Loreto monastery school and help in a hospital. That was her provision before she devoted her whole life for the poor and needy. She was later moved to Entally, a slum village in the east side. After taking solemn vow at 14 May 1937, she was promoted to become the headmistress of St. Mary’s School.

After living for almost 19 years in the monastery environment as novitiate, Sister Teresa couldn’t stand seeing the contradiction between the living within and outside the monastery environment. Read more!

Colors would give pretty much influence in our mood or feeling. Bright colors could cheer us up, while the dark ones would bring a sense of gloomy and sometimes boredom.
Carl Jung, a well-known psychologist used to say: “Individuals response to color is too complex to allow a simple mode of interpretation. But, I believe there is a relationship between color and personality.”

So what your favorite color tells about you? Perhaps this article will help you find out about it.

BLACK
Black reflects power and authority. It traces strictness and hardness in compromising. Girls who favor black are mostly dominant person, like arranging and managing, and always demand for respect, stubborn, and high prided.
Beneath those negative traits, their positive point is: they are not cheap ones. They are an independent character, have firm consistency, and usually smart.

WHITE
White usually symbolizes something pure and clean. But in daily life white could represent a piece of canvas that reflects other colors, from the bright to the dark ones.
Girls who prefer white are normally innocent. They are soft-hearted and unquestionably sincere. The lack of girls who love the color white is that they intend to be sensitive, easily hurt and difficult to cure. They are vengeful and quite indecisive.

RED
This color is closely related to emotions. Girls who like the color red are usually friendly, cheerful, lovely, courageous and even tended to be reckless. Read more!

Some women might have been familiar with the term ‘baby blues’. It is the mood swings women experience after having a baby, that they may feel a little depressed, have a hard time concentrating, lose their appetite and have insomnia. The baby blues are considered a normal part of early motherhood and usually go away within 10 days after delivery. However, women with more severe symptoms that last longer than a few days are presumed as having Postpartum Depression (PPD).

There is no exact reason known on why women get postpartum depression. But it is recognized that during pregnancy and right after childbirth there are changes in the level of hormones. Those hormone changes may produce chemical changes in the brain that play a part in causing depression.

This depression later affect the quality of life and include:
- Feeling sad or down often
- Frequent crying or tearfulness
- Feeling restless, bad-tempered or anxious
- Loss of interest or pleasure in life
- Loss of appetite, which lead to weight loss
- Less energy and motivation to do things
- Sleeping difficulty Read more!

1. Graceful
Take a look at how girl talk to her friends. Does she always use hard-pitched, screaming, or even polite and always gentle in a word? These characteristics reflect the way in which the girls will talk to you and your family later after you married.

2. Frugal
Which guy would have a materialistic girl? Later if you are married with a girl, she will spend your money for shopping unnecessary things. Take a look at the way she spends his money now. Is she among those who frugal, or a shopaholic?

3. Care
How can she remember the birthday of my parents?” You said. That is a good sign. She’s really pay attention to little things like that. In fact, you’re not married yet. After you come home from work, the dinner is already available. When you’re sick, she makes porridge for you. Little things like that that will help and strengthen your relationship.

4. Patient
You are late for a date with the girl, but the girl was not angry at all when you came and she had to wait for 25 minutes hungrily. Is it a good thing? Just think if you’re in a bad situation; patience will help the situation and does not make it become worse. Just imagine you’re on a date with girl who can not wait. She’s a little bit angry because you’re not on time, do a little mistake. Dating should be fun, but it will be a bad experience. Read more!

What is Competent? Competent is having a good manner, power, uniqueness and stability even tough we are in a difficult situation. As we all know, there are a lot of problem that we are facing nowadays. For example, you have some problem in your business, your family or in your study. Sometimes, those problems seem so hard for us and we can not stand any longer. It seems that we want to get out and run away from those problems. However, run away from our problem is not a good thing to do. A competent woman will not escape from her problem, but she will face and solve her problem. That is the men’s favorite. How to be a competent woman? Here are some explanations based from Holy Bible.

Proverbs 31:10-31 describes the characteristics of competent woman. First, competent woman is more precious than a jewel (verse 10) and rarely have a woman like this. Second, she is diligent and a hard worker (verse 19 & 24). Third, she always acts and does everything with God’s Wisdom and she can run a business (verse 16). Read more!

Do you have too many assignments from your school or office? Do you also have many problems with your boyfriend or your parents? Do you feel like there are too many things on your mind and those things depress you? Do you want to get out from it? Then, you have to do these things. And hopefully, you will get some ‘fresh air’ for your mind.

1. Write a diary.
Try to find a quiet and comfortable place for you to write a diary. You can start in your room. Then, start to write and express all feelings in your heart and mind. You can also share your problem and draw something in your diary. You will find out that a diary can be a good friend to confide in.

2. Exercising.
Some researches have find out that exercising can expedite the blood circulation, create calmness and relaxation, reducing blood pressure and also muscle tension. Exercising will also make you healthy, so there’s no reason for not trying!

3. Play your favorite songs and sing. Read more!