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!

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!

“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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The telephone has been in use since its invention in 1860. Today the telephone is a vital means of communications for millions of Americans. With the proliferation of cell phones, satellite phones, two way voice devices, and VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), the telephone has become a device many use every day of their lives.

Telephone etiquette is applicable for use within all realms of telephony. Telephone etiquette in the workplace takes a special precedent because of it prevalence. Everyday people use the telephone to conduct business. With proper etiquette one can create a better communication stream, which will lead to more business and thus greater profit for all. This article examines a few basic principals once can use to enhance their telephone etiquette.
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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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Are church annulments recognized in God’s eyes? To help understand this, let us begin with a hypothetical story.
A woman marries at a young age and after realizing her mistake, divorces her husband. A few years later, she meets a wonderful man and falls in love with him.
He asks her to marry him and she says yes. However, the man is a practicing Catholic. Because of his faith, he insists that her first marriage is annulled by the Catholic church.
Because of her love for this man, she agrees. But after jumping through all the hoops that the church requires, does it really count? Is this annulment recognized in God’s eyes?

Regarding marriage and divorce, Mt. 19:6 says, “Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate”. Keep in mind that the Catholic church is run by men. Read more!

You can motivate your team members externally or internally. External motivation relates to the working environment. However, internal motivation relates the interests, aptitudes and dreams of your team members. Here you shall find seven critical motivational techniques to get the best out of your subordinates.

1. Reward and Punishment
It is the most popular technique being used by the managers. It mobilizes motivational energies in the team players. The reward can be in the form of special promotions, raises or words. However, excessive use of this tool may create jealousy amongst your subordinates to disturb the working environment.
Fear of punishment also plays an important role. You need to be careful here too. Read more!

Teaching toddlers to share is a universal parental headache. Yet parents try diligently to root out that inborn selfishness. It causes stress in many parents especially when their heartfelt coaxing and convincing seem to fall on deaf ears.

To successfully help a toddler to share, a parent must first understand a few things about their world:

1. Children below the age of 3 may not understand the idea of ownership. Meaning, when they give something away, they regard it as gone forever. They do not understand that if something belongs to them, they can give it away for a little while and then ask for it back later.
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Human memory is a truly amazing phenomenon. It is always a source of wonder that seemingly insignificant occurrences may create lasting memories for one person while other people cannot even recall details of major events in their life. There are many factors that influence this apparent disparity.

It is sometimes said that a healthy brain never forgets anything. Unless affected by injury or disease the brain never loses anything. Forgetting something is actually a result of:

1. Not storing the facts properly in the first place.
2. Failure to store the facts in a manner in which they can be recalled. Read more!

Just about everybody will suffer from a lack of confidence at some time. Having a set of simple exercises you can practice during these times is an invaluable aid to getting your confidence level back on track as quickly as possible.

Here are seven things you can do to boost or maintain your confidence.

1. Practice correct posture. This might not sound like it’s obviously related to confidence, but how you sit and how you stand sends a message out to those around you. If that message radiates confidence out from you, you will get positive vibes back which will bolster your confidence. So, learn to stand like you have confidence and sit like you have confidence.
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Is modern-day society leading to the extinction of free time? It seems that the days of having plenty of time to accomplish all of the normal day-to-day responsibilities and having a bit of free time are virtually gone.

How did this happen? All of the new technological advances should be providing an abundance of free time. Nearly everything has been automated in some way. There are fast cars to transport us quickly to our destination, dishwashers and robotic vacuum cleaners to take care of household tasks, cell phones for immediate communication and problem resolution, and computers to speed up previously tedious tasks.
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