Stress Symptoms Can Help You Balance Your Mental Health

These days, people are paying a lot of attention to mental health. Most people understand the importance of good mental health and are willing to enhance it in order to live happily. One of the common concerns associated with mental health problems is the stress in our lives. It can crop up from anywhere and it can creep into many aspects of our lives. If we wish to lead a healthy and happy life, we need to understand stress, the stress symptoms, causes and prevention. Even if we don't have worries in our lives now, we must learn ways to prevent it. We will have moments where we can use the proper techniques to either eliminate worries from our lives or at least learn to reduce its intensity and impact.

Given the fact that we have different kinds and forms of stress in our lives, symptoms could vary as well. Likewise, treatment also varies, this is why the experts suggest more than one ways so that the patient chooses a method that is convenient and suitable to them. The ultimate goal of experts, be it doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists is to ensure that an individual takes responsibility and acts upon the stressors persisting in their life. Only by acting upon them can assure an individual to have a balance in their mental health.

In the current scenario, it is very easy for anyone to find stressors in and around them. The external environment often is the key player in sowing the seeds of stress, but internally too; an individual extends it by having negative thought patterns and irrational believes. Therefore, when it comes to mental health enhancement and reduction of stress, the starting point is to understand where the stress is coming from and what it is doing to your body and mind.

You are bound to make positive change in your life when you are aware of the stress symptoms. You can take your life on a completely different level and of course for the betterment when you are able to identify the stress symptoms. There is no harm in increasing knowledge about stress. It is not something meant to be studied only by people associated with medicine or psychology. It is not meant to be in books alone, it is something that needs to be understood and learnt by all of us. In our fast-paced lives, breaking down of a car, missing the bus, reaching late to work, fear of losing job can cause stress too. Stress for some people is only about major issues of life, which no longer stands true.

Take an initiative to learn about stress, so that you can save yourself from being stuck in the stress-web. Internet is the perfect tool to help you gain knowledge about anything and everything, thus, make the most of it. By doing this, you are only helping yourself and you don't need a doctor for treating your stress, you have the power to do it on your own.

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CIBO SPAZZATURA: BUONO DA MORIRE, LETTERALMENTE...

Chi segue siti di salute naturale, come questo, e di controinformazione, sa cosa sia il JUNK FOOD, il cibo spazzatura...  un cibo che si definisce tale, generalmente, quando contiene "calorie vuote"  ed eccessive quantità di sostanze che è noto danneggino l'organismo

Tuttavia.. perchè questo cibo resta cosi popolare? Cosa fa sì che decine di milioni di persone lo consumino ogni giorno , ANCHE se sono consapevoli dei rischi salutistici che esso comporta?

Beh una delle ragioni sta nel come è stato progettato: cibi del genere sono stati architettati per essere attraenti ai nostri sensi. E' stato pensato per creare una sorta di forma mentale che dice: "non posso resistere ": ecco perchè i produttori del junk food hanno prosperato persino in una cultura salutistica e perchè...in cosi tanti americani, ma anche in sempre piu' cittadini nel mondo, si vedono fenomeni cosi eclattanti di obesità, diabete, malattie cardiache ed altre patologie.

Michael Moss, autore di of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us ( ...come i giganti dell'almentzione ci hanno agganciato) afferma:Ci si chiede come mai  cosi tanti non sanno metter giu'  un pacchetto di Cheetos? (snacks al formaggio, ndt)
La risposta è semplice: Le Cheetos non sono state pensate per essere consumate lentamente, durante i giorni o un po' per volta...ma tutte dal sacchetto. Infatti alcuni alimentaristi credono che le Cheetos siano un miracolo moderno, in termini di puro junk food.


Scrive Moss:

"Questo - ha detto Witherly [un alimentarista]-  "è uno dei cibi piu' meravigliosamente costruiti sul pianeta, in termini di puro piacere."  Tra le molte lodi e meraviglie spese per descrivere questi piaceri, c'è quella che  "si scioglie in bocca".

"Viene chiamata densita calorica svanente", ci dice  il Witherly. "Se qualcosa si scioglie velocemente, il cervello pensa che quel cibo non contiene calorie...quindi puoi continuare a mangiarlo in eterno."

Il "formaggio che si sgranocchia" c'è in ben 17 gusti...

I produttori di junk food hanno perfezionato un processo noto come "sazietà specifica sovvertita sensorialmente". Secondo l'autore , questo è un concetto fondamentale per l'industria alimentare, che puo creare "una tendenza per grandi sapori distinti che sopraffanno il cervello , il quale risponde scoraggiando il vostro desiderio ad averne altri'"
 

L'autore dice che la chiave per evitare la tendenza naturale è creare delle ricette junk food che aggirino l'ostacolo:

La sazietà specifica sensoriale è anche diventata un principio guida per l'industria dei cibi
confezionati. I grandi successi come Coca-Cola o Doritos, sono dovuti alle formule complesse che irritano abbastanza le papille gustative,  ma non hanno un singolo sapore distinto e prevalente, tale da dire al cervello di smettere di mangiare.

L' industria del junk food, tra l'altro, sa che i suoi prodotti danneggiano la nostra società. E' triste, ma non soprende, che l'industria del junk food sappia (almeno dal 1999
dice Moss) di constribuire al declino della saluite nella società.

Come accade per le altre industrie, anche i produttori di junk food sono diventati bravi a  formulare  dubbie "soluzioni" ai problemi che hanno loro stessi creato.
Per esempio: l'industria riempie di sale la piu' parte dei suoi prodotti, tuttavia un dato demografico di base dell'industria, i "baby boomers" (coloro che sono nati negli  anni del boom economico dopo la seconda guerra mondiale) ora sono invecchiati e stanno cercando di togliere l'eccesso di sale. E' un problema? Niente affatto: è una opportunità!
Anziche ridurre semplicemente  il contenuto di sale, in sè e per sè, i produttori di junk food cercano di sviluppare un "progettatore del sodio", che sperano riduca del 40% il sale nei loro prodotti. Se questo accadrà, i baby boomers ragioneranno cosi: hey, il contenuto di sale è molto diminuito, quindi possiamo mangiare piu' junk food e stare a posto..

Ma ci sono anche altri ingannevoli concetti come:

-- Trovare un prodotto che vende, poi trovare l'ingrediente piu' a buon mercato, per farci il miglior profitto 

-- Il vostro cervello, sorprendentemente, reagisce in modo molto simile sia allo zucchero che alla cocaina, quindi quando dite cose come: "Questo [metteteci il nome della tavoletta di cioccolato che volete...] è come il  mio  candy crack! [ cocaina , anfetamine]" è molto piu' vicino alla realtà di quanto pensiate.

Sintesi e traduzione Cristina Bassi
fonte: http://www.naturalnews.com/039600_junk_food_addiction_ingredients.html

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Some Incredibly Strange Brain Disorders

Introduction:

You're used to counting on the brain. Whatever else happens, your individual group of grayish issue will take on the globe, and reply to it in a liquid and foreseeable way. But actually, whatever the brain does is created up of many subsequent psychological actions - and if just one of those actions isn't able, you'll find yourself acting very in a different way. Astasia-Abasia Sufferers Are Always On the Brink of Dropping, Anosognia Sufferers Are Incapable to Identify Their Own Accidents, Broca's Aphasia Sufferers Are Able to Do Everything But Discuss, Palinopsia Sufferers Basically Cannot Hidden Things, Dysmimia or Amimia Sufferers Don't Know if You Give Them the Handy, Dysantigraphia Sufferers Can't Probably Duplicate Their The next door neighbors Document, Amelodia Sufferers Can Never Name That Track, Anhedonia Sufferers Can't Take Satisfaction in Anything and Vocabulary aphasia Sufferers Are Make shift Gertrude Steins.

Main idea:

Astasia-Abasia is also known as Blocq's Condition, after John Blocq, the France physician who first described it. It's the lack of ability to take a position or stroll effectively, but there's more to it. At first, a individual with this situation seems to be very intoxicated. Sufferers dark when they try to take a position or stroll. Sufferers seem risky to themselves. They overbalance excessively, always capturing themselves at the last time. But that's the situation - they always capture themselves. Individuals with Blocq's Condition almost never harm themselves. They only drop when a physician, a family member, or a smooth place on the floor is available. Often this situation is in reaction to pressure. The most popular situation of this occurred in the Sixties, when not one but two cadets at Western Factor came down with the situation, physicians believe as a reaction to the pressure of exercising at the famous university. Anosognia occurs together with other traumas - usually swings and loss of sight. Individuals who have missing the capability to management one 50 percent of their system will say that they just don't want to shift that aspect of their system. They'll say that that 50 percent of one's human is really operating normally, after all. When physicians display that it isn't operating, they'll say that the areas of the system that the physicians are directing to are part of someone else, or even that they have three arms, arms, or feet, and are going the ones that the physicians don't see. There was even a situation of a lady who had gone almost absolutely sightless but was adamant that she could see normally - cobbling together a 'vision' of what was occurring around her from glimpses on the unharmed areas of her sight, from reminiscences, and from any seems to be that she could listen to around her.

Patients with Broca's Aphasia are able to create, to study, to pay attention and understand people, and are able to speak - but not able to type many consistent terms. The situation is caused by an damage to Broca's place, the individual's capability to management what their lips are saying goes away. Some individuals are able to handle about four terms, but most reduce their capability to say what they want. Sometimes, they even will not be able to know that they aren't saying what they mean to say. One of the most popular situations of this was a man who basically recurring "Tono tone tono tono tono," to every query requested him. Although he could understand everything, he couldn't make his mouth area say the terms he required to reply. Palinopsia is not actually a healthcare problem. It's just the after-image that a lot of people after they look away from shiny things. Sometimes, though, it continues a little a lengthy time. A seventy-three-year-old lady joined a Celebration the day after a very bad frustration and observed that, after she checked out a Santa Claus who was operating at the party, she saw a Santa Claus facial beard on everybody's experience for the relax of the party. Times later she still saw people red Santa Claus caps and red Santa Claus overcoats strolling around the roads. Another lady saw areas of her spouse's experience superimposed on everything, or halo of mild from a screen dropping out the right aspect of individuals leads. No one is sure what causes palinopsia, but treatment adverse reactions or patches on the mind are the most likely applicants.

Conclusion:

Dismimia is a strangely particular little situation. There's no way of knowing exactly what causes it, but it prevents the victim from knowing side actions or side alerts. Typical actions for 'wait,' 'stop,' or 'sit and whirl,' are instantly incomprehensive. These actions are missing even if the affected individual formerly realized their significance. This problem was first seen in a Vietnam expert who confirmed exactly what happens when you don't regularly censor yourself at your job: You get taken. You get taken over and over until such time as someone delivers you to a physician. This particular situation was steered towards mindset - rather than an manners guide - because the knight had been taken in the go decades before. The right front side aspect of the mind has something in it that allows individuals consider their terms and silently keep the culturally unhelpful ones within. Other injuries to this place of the mind have triggered identical reactions.

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NON PREOCCUPATEVI... CONTINUATE PURE LO SHOPPING...

TUTTO NORMALE..
ABBIAMO SOLO BISOGNO DI 
SCARICARE DELL'OSSIDO DI BARIO
E DELLA POLVERE DI ALLUMINIO

CONTINUATE PURE A FARE SHOPPING

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Bipolar Disorder the Importance of Seeking Professional Help

About 175 million people suffer with bipolar in the world. About 50% of those in the world with mental illness go untreated. In Britain the number of mentally ill but untreated persons is reported to be as high as 75%.

About 1 million people commit suicide each year in the world. In the United States of the estimated 744,000 homeless people, up to 45% of them have a serious mental illness. Most of these mentally ill homeless people live a life on the streets and are receiving no professional help for their serious mental health issues. Suicide is the 13th leading cause of death in the world. In the United States suicide is the 6th leading cause of death.

People with mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, unipolar, alcoholism, and substance abuse are often in despair as a result of their disorders.

Despair, trouble, and difficulties are often the trigger for suicide. Clearly those who have mental illnesses and other mental disorders are at high risk for suicide. I am bipolar, and I cannot describe with mere words how difficult the disorder bipolar is. At times, the periods of severe depression, truly can make you feel like you wish you were dead.

Add to the bipolar depression, the struggles of life, financial problems, relationship struggles and the like, and the fact that a very large percent of those with mental disorders receive no treatment, it can be understood more clearly why suicide rates for the mentally ill are so high.

Because those with mental disorders have very high suicide risk. It is imperative for those who are depressed and those who have mental disorders, to seek out and receive professional treatment. A combination of psychiatric counseling and medication when applicable, clearly does help.

There are countless stories of people who reach they feel the end of their rope, as it were, and commit suicide. In fact 1 million people every year commit suicide. That is almost 3,000 people a day. How sad! On the other hand we have the countless people with mental disorders who do seek treatment. As result of their treatment, suicidal thoughts are less rare. As result of professional treatment and finding the right combination of medication, they area able to function in society. So seeking professional help for a mental disorder can help one avoid a potential path leading to suicide. Professional help can also help you to enjoy your life despite your disorder.

Gerald Bouthner is a father, and resides on the east coast of the U.S.A. Gerald has been struggling with bipolar disorder for 20 years now. Gerald has written various articles on the mental illness bipolar. Gerald has written such articles as, Bipolar and employment, bipolar and disability, bipolar and insomnia, bipolar medication and others. You can read these on his blog at http://mentalhealthlivingwithbipolar.blogspot.com/

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UNA CASA FARMACEUTICA: PUBBLICARE DATI SULLA SICUREZZA DEL FARMACO E' ILLEGALE. SORPRESI?

In tutto il mondo è gran tema del momento rendere pubblici i dati. Questo per migliorare la trasparenza, perchè i cittadini siano piu' informati di quel che sta accadendo. Una categoria importante di dati pubblici ha a che fare con l'informazione di sicurezza sui farmaci di base . Il mese scorso Techdirt ha scritto sulla iniziativa AllTrials, che cerca di avere informazioni chiave sui test clinici, perchè vengano resi di pubblico dominio.

Come parte di una piu' ampia mossa verso una maggiore apertura, la European Medicines Agency (Agenzia Nedia Europea) l'organo principale che emette autorizzazioni per le
medicine  in Europa, sta iniziando a rendere disponibili delle informazioni fino ad ora negate.

Medici e pazienti sono felici di questa maggiore trasparenza, ma NON tutti gradiscono questa mossa. AbbVie, l'azienda farmaceutica tessuta dalla Abbott Laboratories all'inizio di questo anno, per esempio, ha fatto una azione  legale per fermare questa iniziativa:

La AbbVie, una azienda farmaceutica, ha richiesto una ingiunzione per  fermare il regolatore  europeo sui medicinali, dal pubblicare  informazioni “riservate” e “commercialmente sensibili ” , su una sua medicina, che va per la maggiore,  sulla artrite reumatoide , cosi ha confermato un portavoce americano della casa farmaceutica
L'azienda con sede a Chicago, ha fatto azione legale contro la European Medicines Agency per fermarla dal pubblicare dati sugli effetti in pazienti singoli, monitorati durante i test clinici in riferimento alla sua medicina Humira, cosi ha riportato il Financial Times domenica.

Anche un altro organo EU, la  European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), si sta aprendo:

Il progetto è parte dell'impegno continuo della EFSA per aprire a ed indicare raccomandazioni  che giungano da  un rapporto valutativo indipendente, sulla prestazione della Authority , per incrementare la trasparenza nei suoi processi decisionali. La Science Strategy della EFSA evidenzia anche l'importanza dell'Authority nello svolgere un ruolo di punta nel rendere piu' accessibili, a tutte le parti coinvolte, rilevanti dati scientifici

 Ecco una serie particolare di dati che ora sono stati pubblicati:

Dato il livello di interesse generale, la EFSA renderà accessibili sul suo sito oggi (14 gennaio),  tutti i dati relativi al mais geneticamente modificato, il  NK603

Sembra tutto molto ovvio e civile...MA...secondo quanto dice la Bakeryandsnacks.com, la Monsanto sta minacciando di fare causa alla EFSA per aver pubblicato questi dati.

Cio' che rende un po' confusa la questione, è che l'azienda viene citata  in quell'articolo per aver detto che “sostiene fermamente la trasparenza”  ... ma qui sta combattendo anima e corpo proprio contro di essa. 

Sembra che la Monsanto voglia che tutto l'ambiente per la regolamentazione in EU sia "fondato scientificamente" . La scienza moderna, tuttavia,  richiede  che i dati sperimentali vengano resi disponibili, perchè cosi tutti possono verificare la validità  delle conclusioni a cui si è giunti e che si sono dedotte.

Se non si puo' fare uno scrutinio dei dati, non si possono confermare le conclusioni e quindi... non è scienza.

Dunque, data la richiesta di fondamento scientifico ... perchè l'azienda vuole tenere i dati segreti? Un cinico sospetterebbe che la Monsanto e la AbbVie avessero qualcosa da nasconcdere ...

traduzione e sintesi Cristina Bassi
FONTE: http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/giant-pharma-company-claims-releasing-data-on-drug-safety-is?overrideMobileRedirect=1

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Understanding Depression

Depression is a disease which affects individuals and families all over the world in terrible ways - sometimes, tragically, to the extent where sufferers are lost to suicide. This disorder is one which is still not understood well by the general public, although the medical community has developed a much better understanding of what it is, what causes it and how best to treat it in recent years.

It's important to understand that first and foremost depression is a real disorder, not simply someone being 'down in the dumps.' It is this misconception that sufferers can simply 'get over it' that causes many sufferers to avoid seeking the treatment they desperately need. This is a misconception that needs to be corrected - and thankfully, more people are beginning to be more open-minded about it and more understanding of what its sufferers have to go through.

What many people also don't realise is that there are different types of depression. The disorder we typically associate with the word depression is what is clinically known as 'major depression.' This is distinguished from bipolar depression. Major depression is characterised by consistently low moods, whereas bipolar typically involves rapid changes between low moods and episodes of high-intensity, frenetic behavior. Bipolar depression is also known as manic, because of this flux between depressed and manic states.

So how do you recognise this disorder? It's important to know the signs and symptoms so you can pick up on it not only in others, but in yourself (many people suffering this don't actually consider that they have the disorder. This is partly because some symptoms don't fit with the widespread misconceptions about the disorder.)

In order for a diagnosis of major depression to be made, the low moods need to have been occurring consistently for a long period of time - generally longer than 6 months before medications will be prescribed. It can be triggered by a difficult life event, although often there are other underlying causes which build up to a person becoming depressed.

Aside from the typical 'blue mood,' other symptoms include consistent feelings of hopelessness, loss of self esteem and a feeling that life is pointless. Changes in appetite are common, and sufferers also often find they lose interest in all activities - even activities which they previously enjoyed a great deal. Sleeping problems and a reduction in sex drive are other common indicators to keep an eye out for.

For more help understanding depression, please visit What Is Depression?

Richard Atchison, raised in New Zealand, graduated in 2002 from Auckland High School. A Presidential Scholar, he entered Auckland State University that autumn as an English major, with an emphasis in Literary Studies. Presently, an article contributor for various sites. What Is Depression?

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