Women Personality and Mental Health

A bad boss or thoughtless friend can sap your energy. Take charge with these mend ‘em or end ‘em strategies.

A few years ago, I landed the job of my dreams. But just days after I started, my boss began making jokes at my expense; soon she was brutally shooting down my ideas and undermining my authority. Every morning, I swore that this would be the day I’d turn things around, but each evening I’d leave exhausted and discouraged.

“This is the classic toxic scenario,” says Lillian Glass, Ph.D., author of Toxic People: 10 Ways of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable. Read more!

If you’re tired of trudging through the day in a fatigue-induced fog, take heart! Here are 14 tips to help you get the shuteye you need and deserve.
Can’t sleep? You’re not alone. Forty-seven percent of adults would like to improve the quality of their sleep, and 37 percent feel that they do not get enough rest, according to a recent survey conducted by the Better Sleep Council (BSC).

Part of the reason that sleep seems so elusive is the demands of the workday world. Back-to-back meetings, heavy meals, and high doses of caffeine from 9 to 5 all can make it more diffiicult to get that restorative shuteye. Read more!

Everyone has stressful days, weeks, even months. But according to the American Institute of Stress, for 43 percent of adults, stress is so severe that it causes physical and mental problems (it’s been linked to heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, obesity and hypertension). Many women feel particularly stressed because they’ve got so many responsibilities: caring for kids while juggling a job and personal commitments. But how do you distinguish normal, everyday stress from the kind that can actually make you sick?
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Do you have moments when being a ‘nice’ parent just seems impossible? For example, your toddler is still running around the house, refusing to sleep and it’s already 11pm. Or when you’re tired and they decide to reward you with more whining and a temper tantrum? And how about times when you are late and they still prefer to move at a snail’s pace?
‘Monster Parent’ moments are when your anger gets the better of you. You scream and yell, maybe even hit or hurl abusive words at your children. You look at your children with daggers coming out of your eyes and your idea of discipline at that moment is to inflict pain and hurt.

I would dare say that having occasional ‘Monster Parent’ moments are quite common among parents. After all, we are only humans and we have good days and bad days. But beware that these occasional ‘Monster Parent’ moments do not become too frequent. Read more!

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a serious mental condition that affects millions of people. Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme changes in mood, thought, energy, and behavior. Those with the illness appear to vacillate between the extremes of mania and depression over a period of time. The disorder can be described as a recurring and severe mental illness that affects an individual’s mood, behavior and ability to think clearly. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness and must be carefully managed throughout the person’s life.

The primary struggle for those with bipolar disorder is with mood regulation. Read more!

In 1997, 22 year old Heidi Gunther died of a heart attack during a vacation trip with her family. She was at the time a ballet dancer for the Boston Ballet. Heidi suffered from an eating disorder called Anorexia Nervosa.

Anorexia is a life threatening psychological condition where a person believes he or she is too obese, never thin enough, resulting in self starvation and excessive exercising to the point of malnutrition. This condition seems to be more prevalent among teenage girls and young women but not exclusively. Cases have also been found among men, young children, and even some women as old as sixty. It is characterized by extremely low body weight, and a distorted sense of self perception.
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The most common eating disorders are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia. Eating Disorders are not solely disorders of eating. They are often described as an outwared expression of internal emotional pain and confusion, which is disruptive to your physical and emotional well-being. Although eating disorders are on the increase, we still know very little about their causes.

Individuals with eating disorders are obsessed with food, body image and weight loss. Eating disorders are more prominent in women, but male eating disorders are more common than many think. It may be harder for men and people of color to acknowledge or get help, because eating disorders are often seen as a “white woman’s” issue. Eating disorders are much easier to prevent than cure, and parents are in the best position to do that work. Read more!

Just getting through a day can be a struggle for someone suffering from a depression. There are different forms of therapy and medication that can help the patient suffering this disease. Both can be given separately or in combination.
These treatments and therapies will generally speaking have the biggest impact on someone’s healing process.

Nevertheless there are also actions that sufferers of a depression can take to help themselves feel better. For instance:
1. Avoid alcohol: Alcohol can make a depression much worse and it interferes with the action of many anti depressants. Read more!

Massage therapy has been around for a long time. Ancient cultures in China, Egypt, India, Greece and Rome used massage as part of their medical and health procedures.
Massage has been used to treat all kinds of medical conditions and disorders. Massage can be used to treat stress, it can help you relax and it generally promotes a feeling of well being. Massage therapy works to help all aspects of the physical system - the muscular, nervous, circulatory and immune systems.

Quite apart from the undoubted physical benefits of massage therapy, much of the benefit is psychological; it has to do with the feel-good factor of intimate contact with another human being. Read more!

Autism, or Autistic Spectrum Disorder, is a developmental disorder that affects the way a person communicates with and relates to the people around them. It is usually first noticed when a child reaches the age of about three and is basically identified by considering the ‘triad of impairments’. These are three areas of difficulty for the autistic person and are social relationships, communication, and imagination and planning.

The autistic person may appear aloof and indifferent to those around them. They may be sociable with one person, but unable to function in a group. Communication difficulties include no understanding or use of verbal or non-verbal communication. A common characteristic is an unwillingness to look people in the eye. Impairment of imagination may lead to limited, repetitive play, copying others or problems discerning between fact and fantasy. Read more!

The biggest frustration amongst people seems to be not having what they want in life.

Yet they have exactly what they wished for.
Your mind is like a powerful computer. Much more powerful than anything man made that exists today. The purpose of your mind is to provide the outcome that is programmed into it, by you. It will always give you the programmed result, that is a law of nature.

And this is where the trouble starts.
Most of us have no idea how to effectively program this computer, and those that do, program it with ineffective programs more often than not. Read more!

Irritable bowel syndrome is a disorder characterized most commonly by cramping abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, add diarrhea. Irritable bowel syndrome is a common problem affecting about one in ten adults. Sometimes irritable bowel syndrome is referred to as spastic colon, mucous colitis, spastic colitis, nervous stomach, or irritable colon. The cause of irritable bowel syndrome is not well understood. Irritable bowel syndrome is a distressing and embarrassing condition whose precise causes and treatment are the subject of much dispute. Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common intestinal disorder seen by doctors today. Much of the pain in irritable bowel syndrome is caused by abnormal contractions of the lining of the intestines.
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“I’m bored mommy. There is nothing to do.”
Are you hearing that from your child too often? Perhaps they are lacking a vivid imagination. This is something they are born with, but can lose it if it is not encouraged.

Here are five ways to encourage imagination in a young child.

1. Turn the TV Off
Does this one need an explanation?
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Happiness is something we all want. Good times with friends, and close relationships are the things that make us feel complete as people. But in these present times there are many distractions that leave us feeling overwhelmed and that we don’t have full control in our life’s situation. It seems that we are always having to trade one priority for another to accomplish our daily tasks.
In the meantime, our relationships with the ones we love may suffer. Oddly enough, the solution to bringing more happiness into our lives may begin with how we deal with our own perception of ourselves.

To put this in its proper perspective, a positive mental attitude begins with the things that we tell ourselves on a subconscious level. Read more!

Astrology has been practiced across the world in various forms for centuries despite there being much debate over its legitimacy, or more to the point accuracy. As without doubt the most popular of the pseudo-sciences, astrology has origins dating as far back as 2600 BC in China and has gained increasing popularity over the centuries.

Despite its complexity, astrology is said to be an important tool we can use in our day-to-day lives by understanding and acknowledging the celestial forces that influence each moment. Given some practice and familiarization, many people find astrology to be easier to understand than first thought and liken it to a symbolic clock which can be read once thoroughly understood.
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