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Many believe that psychiatry is not real; it’s a pseudoscience, trash, and a make belief science, it’s all about hypnotism etc. However, psychiatry is a medical science of a different order that deals with the mind and its intrinsic and complicated nature. Many mental disorders or illness often having an effect on the mind as well as the body can be treated by a psychiatrist. Insomnia, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, abnormally high pressure moods, various personality disorders etc are some of the common cases under psychiatry.

Mental health professionals and staff thrive across the globe. Psychiatric counselling has helped patients a great deal in coming out of depressions, rectifying personality disorders, correcting insomnia etc. Aids Phobia is common among a large number of people. Possessing little or lack of knowledge about HIV, and misinformed about Aids, people panic and suffer from mental and physical aspects. There are many such psychic disorders and phobias, schizophrenic cases, nervous disorders that require the expertise of a psychiatrist to deal with these.

Anorexia is a very common psychological disorder and more so in today’s young girls. Anorexia is a mental disorder where a person stops eating or eats less for fear of getting fat. Eventually such habit leads to a loss of appetite. The concept of hour glass figure is a growing trend among today’s young girls and it has had disastrous effects on the body and mind. Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among young women. 1% of all teenage girls suffer from the condition, while for boys it is 0.1%. The disease has physical side effects like infertility among women. Continue reading ‘The Mystical World of Psychiatry’ »

Would you like to sleep like a baby without taking drugs? Americans spend upwards of 3 billion dollars a year on sleep medications, but to avoid the side effects, there are a number of natural remedies you can try first. To get a good quality night’s sleep, try these 6 tips from my new book Second Spring.

1. Relaxing Rituals to Rest Easy

In Chinese Medicine, nighttime is yin time—or, simply, when the body takes care of itself instead of your desires.  Proper sleep is required for your body to repair itself and regenerate. To reach deep, restful sleep, your spirit and heart must be calm. Excessive worry, anxiety, and depression can all disturb the spirit and activate the mind—making it near impossible to fall asleep and stay asleep. Continue reading ‘6 Natural Tips for Deep Sleep’ »

Insomnia is a condition characterized by difficulty getting to sleep or difficulty staying asleep, or both. Problems with sleep are often associated with many conditions, including medical and psychiatric illnesses. Sometimes insomnia can be caused of drug or alcohol abuse.

Depending of the type and the causes of insomnia there are different treatments. The best way to do is to look for medical treatment that is monitored by your doctor. In addition you can try some of the following practices that sometimes have positive effect in curing sleeping disorders.

Continue reading ‘How to Overcome Insomnia’ »

In many instances, quitting smoking is just so much easier when you become aware of the ugly contents of the cigarette itself. Yes, I mean chemical content. Did you know that cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins?? These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.

We know that nicotine is highly addictive and smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, where nicotine reaches your brain in just 6 seconds. In small doses nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain but in large doses, it’s a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. When you smoke a cigarette, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to your lungs. Continue reading ‘What is Really in a Cigarette…’ »

It is a very important part of drug withdrawal to make sure that you are following a proper nutrition plan. The withdrawal causes severe symptoms in your body such as sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, insomnia, headaches, and general pain, to name but a few. This is a lot your body to be put through. So it is up to you to supply the correct fuel to enable your body to live up to what you’re asking of it.

At the beginning of your Drug Detox, a cleansing diet would be the preferable route to take. This could reduce the symptoms of withdrawal. A cleansing Drug Detox Diet makes sure that the food and drink you are taking into your body is less acid and more alkaline.

Foods to avoid are red meat, dairy produce, and mostly any refined products. You should really be focusing your meals around steamed vegetables, small amounts of fruit, and complex carbohydrates such as brown rice, whole meal bread and pasta.

Other substances to avoid power are obviously drugs, alcohol, and caffeine.

Continue reading ‘What to Do During a Drug Detox Diet’ »

Chinasa, a 27 year old single girl noticed that she felt sleepy most times in her work place. She is an optometrist who sparingly refracts patients.

During periods that patients did not come, Chinasa often finds herself nodding and struggling to avoid sleep. This problem prompted her to go and see a sleep therapist. Her encounter with the physician was warm. Dr Chaudri Khoud, the Consultant Sleep Therapist at King Faisal Medical City made her understand that her problem was lack of adequate sleep. She noted his views and advice on sleep. Continue reading ‘Do You Feel Sleepy at Work?’ »

Millions of people suffer from insomnia, you may fall asleep then find yourself waking up during the night, tossing, turning and having a hard time going back to sleep can be so exhausting. Stress can cause you to suffer from sleep problems, poor diet and your lifestyle. Many do not know but the type of food you eat depends on what type of sleep you get.

Men and women suffer from this medical condition but women suffer more because of menopause, pregnancy and menstruation. Continue reading ‘Alternatve Methods On How to Get A Good Night Sleep; Fighting Insomnia’ »