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If you find yourself in a very stressful situation , you may find it necessary to seek outside professional help. There is no sense in feeling shame if you have to go outside of yourself and ask for professional help. It is a sin to keep things held up inside of you and not seek the necessary help to help you live a healthy and successful life.

It is normal to experience a feeling of stress in your everyday life. This is due to the many changes and challenges one must encounter. No one responds to stress alike. It has often been said that what causes stress for one , may not cause stress for another. Humans seem to see stress as a perception . You will learn that often the way one views a situation, might as well determine the amount of stress one will encounter. It is best to find a way to evaluate your stress in your life and figure out a way to handle it.

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Four years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The cancerous tumor could not be felt by me or my gynecologist or the surgeon who performed my mastectomy. My film mammogram and my ultra sound were inconclusive, but I had a radiologist that wouldn’t stop. The tumor finally showed up on a diagnostic mammogram. It was difficult to see and impossible to feel because the tumor was in the back of my breast close to the chest wall. I am one of those very fortunate women who have not become a statistic. Over 40,000 women die every year from breast cancer. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths of women in the United States. (Lung cancer is first.) While there are no guarantees in life, there are measures to take to give you an edge.

There are two types of screening mammograms: digital and film. Get a yearly digital mammogram. They are more definitive than a film mammogram. A digital mammogram takes an electronic image of the breast and stores it on a computer. Images can be enhanced and brightened for a clearer reading by a radiologist. Digital mammograms use less radiation than a film mammogram. A film mammogram takes a picture of the breast on film, like a picture. It can’t be altered, magnified, or brightened. Continue reading ‘October is Breast Cancer Month’ »

People with a drinking problem take the substance to get a comfortable feeling. Alcohol might help them deal with issues of trauma, stress, or physical pain. By drinking alcohol they might be getting temporary relief of the loneliness they feel, depression, or stress in their life.

Commonly people have know that alcohol can cause serious problem and even dangerous or life-threatening. There are some term that linked to alcohol abuse such as binge drinking, and alcoholism. Binge drinking means having five or more drinks in one session for men and four or more for women. It also means simply drinking to get drunk. Commonly, It is the drinking problem for young people, under age 21.

In fact, people who abuse alcohol have fewer consequences than the others that have alcohol dependence . It means drink too much and suffer social and health consequences, but never completely lose your control over the drinking like in alcohol addiction.

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There are defense mechanisms that one may unconsciously use in dealing with stress or unpleasant and unacceptable social circumstances or behaviors. They tend to help one make emotional adjustments in their everyday situations. However , habitual use has been known to cause one to become some what out of touch with reality.

The most common defense is repression. This is the forcing of an unacceptable or painful idea; feeling; impulse into one’s unconscious mind without one being aware of it. Often one may find that they wish something bad would happen to another out of anger or stress. These feelings won’t vanish. They are placed in one’s unconscious and have a tendency of reoccurring in one’s dreams. Repression tends to protect one from unwanted messages about oneself.

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How often do you hear the phrase “I’m so stressed out!” If you are like me you hear it quite often and from many different people!People feel pressure from many different sources. Those pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often we are ill-equipped to deal with those stressors that trigger anxiety and other feelings that can make us sick. Literally, sick.
The statistics are staggering. One in every eight Americans age 18-54 suffers from an anxiety disorder. This totals over 19 million people! Research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse by men.
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I’d like to discuss anger’s role in the generation and sustenance of panic attacks and anxiety. To give the matter its due, I’ve decided to present the information in two parts. In this edition, part one, we’ll review what anger is in the eyes of the psychoanalysts and cognitivists. And in part two we’ll have a closer look at how anger directly impacts panic and anxiety. Well, are you ready? Let’s get to work.

The French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, a 20th Century pioneer in psychoanalysis, believed aggression is generated as a psychological defense against the threat of something known as fragmentation; the mental and emotional sense of losing control over self-cohesion. Now, fragmentation may present in a feeling of low-grade distress, or it may manifest in all-out panic and terror, for fear of total annihilation. Lacan took the whole matter to infancy where a human is simply a mish-mash of biological functions well beyond internal management. And the only goal one could have is to at least make an effort to pull everything together into some semblance of cohesive identity. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Anger: The Dynamics of Defense’ »

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We do encounter a lot of stress in our lives especially in these times that careers are getting more and more demanding and we are all pressured to stay employed, be successful in our chosen fields and strive to get out of debts. But how about aromatherapy for stress relief?

You may be familiar with many stress busters like meditation, deep breathing exercises and many other relaxation techniques that can help you manage stress in your daily life, but we will be checking out aromatherapy, and how this practice can help us in overcoming stress, lifting up our moods and helping our day-to-day living light and happy.

Aromatherapy for stress relief is a popular practice, although there are also many other uses of aromatherapy in our daily lives. Essential oils used in this practice also possess properties that fight fungal, bacterial and viral infections, but focusing on aromatherapy for stress relief, here are some reasons why you will love aromatherapy as a stress buster.

The practice of aromatherapy provides healing and relaxation from the scents of essential oils extracted from plants. If you are familiar with this practice, you will find different essential oils that give different scents and different healing properties to a person. Some scents and oils are also combined to provide a more relief and relaxation. Continue reading ‘Aromatherapy For Stress Relief – How It Can Help’ »

Currently, this swiftly expanding population is possibly the largest it has at any time been. Customarily, ladies are a disproportionately huge percentage of the caregivers. In accordance, to “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Normally requires On Alzheimer’s,” women account for 65% of the Alzheimer’s population and up to 3-fifths of Alzheimer patient caregivers.

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There have been multiple studies on the affects of people watching fish aquariums, resulting in the conclusion that aquariums have a positive influence on those viewing them. Benefits include a reduction in stress, high blood pressure, anxiety, pulse rate and muscle tension. Aquariums can even help with insomnia for those who need a little more peace and quiet at home. Children with hyperactivity disorder responded well to aquariums, helping them calm down. Alzheimer patients have been found to eat better and feel less anxious and aggressive when having a fish aquarium about. Medical patients feel less stressed entering an office for an exam when having the opportunity to watch an aquarium while waiting for their appointment. Some patients even required less pain medication. Those who work at computers for hours a day can ease their mind for a moment when an aquarium is in the office, helping them feel less stressed and more productive. Fish tanks are great tools for mental health, for any age and any facility whether it be at home or in an office.

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The human brain is absolutely amazing. And as much as we’ve learned about it, it remains one incredibly mysterious three-pound mass of tissue and fluid. The brain’s functioning has certainly been a puzzle to me over the many years, as it’s facilitated a long bout with panic disorder, as well as dances with other distressing mental, emotional, and physical phenomena. Lately, I’ve become more and more fascinated with how a panic sufferer’s assorted pathological challenges present and interact. Here are just some of my thoughts.

I was nine-years-old when an episode of derealization struck me like a lightening bolt while I was sitting at a kitchen table with my parents and their friends. I panicked and ran from the scene. During that same timeframe it was often written on my report cards that I was seemingly unable to sit still and would occasionally wander around the classroom. As a junior in college intrusive thoughts entered my airspace. I was walking down the sidewalk in downtown East Lansing, MI. and saw a woman coming toward me pushing a stroller. Out of nowhere I wondered what would happen if I punched her baby right in the face. Wow!

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