Women Personality and Mental Health

Stress comes from many sources, but there are also various solutions to handle it. Many of us know that meditation is a good way to relieve stress, but most are just too impatient to start their day by meditating, or thinking that meditation is too impractical to do at office, for example. However, meditation offers useful breathing techniques that we can use to relieve stress anytime and anywhere.

There is a practical technique that is called breathing visualization, which is a quick way to relieve stress and only takes about 5 minutes or more. Take a note that during the breathing visualization, you have to breathe from your diaphragm or belly instead of from your shoulder Read more!

The terms of Type A and Type B Personality have become household terms; especially if we talk about stress. While Type B people are described as calmer and less-temperamental, Type A people are completely the opposite. Basically, many people know that Type A character has something to do with being competitive and work-obsessed, but it is not always understood exactly what traits constitute Type A behavior, or exactly how these traits impact health and wellbeing.

The key characteristics of Type A personality include:
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People who suffer from schizophrenia, or have a friend and family who have this condition, are advised to be open and informative about various medications to treat schizophrenia. Schizophrenia cannot be perceived as a single condition; in fact, its actual cause is still unknown. Current treatment methods of schizophrenia are based on both clinical research and experience, in which the treatments are chosen based on their abilities to reduce the symptoms.

These are some common medications or treatments for schizophrenia:

1. Antipsychotic drugs Read more!

In managing a conflict, it is important to make sure that you do not lose your composure and calmness even though your button is pushed. Calm and composed attitude will help you to manage a conflict in a good way as well as maintain a good personal relationship.

1. Share negative emotions only in person or on the phone. E-mails, answering machine messages, and notes are too impersonal for the delicate nature of negative words. Some words that sound bad may be actually not when they are delivered face to face.

2. Pepper your responses with the phrase, “I understand”. This phrase Read more!

When someone in your groups tends to grab all the attention, often poses arrogantly in a conversation or gathering, and protests loudly if he or she is ignored, we call him or her a narcissistic person. Actually, the term “narcissistic” can go more than that. In psychology, there is a term called narcissistic personality disorder. Unlike your attention-grabbing fellow, this disorder is marked with excessive self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Furthermore, these symptoms bring significant negative impacts to the person’s social and career relationships.

Narcissistic personality disorder is estimated to affect 1-percent of the Read more!

Traumatic experiences like childhood abuse, disasters, rape, sexual harrasment and war have tremendous effects in one’s mental health as well as physical. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are collective symptoms that often occur after someone is exposed to, experienced, or witnessed situations that are life-threatening, causing serious injuries or shaking someone’s belief and integrity. The immediate responses of these situations can be a shock, helplessness, horror, or intense fear

If you or someone you know have been exposed to a traumatic event in the past, but cannot really cope with the trauma, you might notice Read more!

Emotional roller-coaster is a common consequence in a hectic everyday life, but sometimes many people cannot distinguish between regular stress or low feeling, and something that is more serious or even needs a professional’s help. For example, if you have days when you experience emotional rise and fall, perhaps you could not tell whether it is a normal part of your life, or something serious such as the symptoms of bipolar disorder.

So, how to tell if you have bipolar disorder or other serious psychological condition? There are some points that should be your considerations before you decide to ask for a professional’s help. Read more!

Going to a therapist or psychologist to solve a mental problem is not a culture in many families. Often, when someone is suffering from depression or anxiety problem, he or she will use certain drugs.

Sometimes, the family itself asks to prescriptive drugs to treat the problem. Even managed care companies sometimes encourage family doctors to prescribe medications rather than refer to a mental health professional for psychotherapy.

There are times when this may be appropriate, but there are other times when psychotherapy is clearly indicated. The fact is, not all mental problems can be treated solely with drugs, especially if the Read more!

Food and mood are somehow connected, so don’t make mistakes with certain diets which lead to low mood and low blood sugar. Lack of certain nutrients like amino acids, minerals, fatty acids, protein, and carbohydrates, can lead to deficiency of certain chemicals in the body, such as dopamine, endorphin, glutamine, and serotonin, which would later lead to anxiety and depression.

So here are some diet tips to avoid depression:

1. Eat small meals and healthy snacks throughout the day, and never skip meals especially breakfast. This will keep your blood sugar Read more!

Mental health issues can be experienced by women from any society; either they are rich or poor, or living within cities or villages. Most mental problems are caused by pressures which relate to gender discrimination, hunger, malnutrition, sexual abuse, domestic violence, humiliation, entrapment, and even loneliness. Here are 5 most common mental health issues in women:

1. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

This disorder affects thousands of women across the world, especially those who live closer to the two hemispheres. The seasonal depression sets in during winter and fall, and also caused by the daylight changes. Women will first experience mood swings from time to time, get lack of energy, fatigue and need to sleep longer. Those who suffer from SAD will rapidly gain weight because their appetite will increase and they will also crave for more carbs and sugar. Read more!