mental health
Mental health and psychology are essential in life extension and leading a healthy and happy life.
Exercise, Exercise, Exercise
One of the most important things you can do to help your anxiety and/or depression symptoms is to EXERCISE. I know It sounds cliche, "healthy body, healthy mind!"—but it is TRUE! When you are anxious and stressed, your body produces a steroid hormone called cortisol, which is the adrenaline that pumps round your body, making you feel those classic feelings—shaking, sweating, light-headedness, faster breathing etc...
By Rose Walker7 years ago in Longevity
I Used TouchPoints to Help Reduce My Stress. Here's What Happened...
Have you ever met someone you were fairly certain was going to die young because of the stress they face? I'm pretty sure that I fit that bill pretty well, and it's not with a happy heart that I say this.
By Iggy Paulsen7 years ago in Longevity
I Tried Muse: The Brain Sensing Headband and Here's What Happened
I'll be the first person to admit—I've never been much of a "mindfulness" type of guy. For me, the world of meditation, yoga, and the overall "strengthening of the mind" were pretty foreign concepts. After all, I'm not flexible, clinically overweight, and probably one of the more cynical people you'll ever encounter in life.
By Greg Bogart7 years ago in Longevity
4 Activities That Can Improve Your Mental Health
Being physically active is as equally important to our body as it is to our mental health. Physical activity not only improves our fitness but it also releases endorphins which improve our mood and help us fight anxiety and relieve stress.
By Nina Simons7 years ago in Longevity
Manage Expectations Because Your Mental Health Depends on It
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack." - Brandon Sanderson. We fight different world beliefs every day. They are coming from our family, friends, or random acquaintances. We deemed them to be important. After all, that is one of our filter mechanisms to sort through the abundance of people surrounding us. We judge and connect through them.
By Toni Koraza7 years ago in Longevity
4 Steps to Take Every Morning for a Healthier Mindset
As we wake up in the morning there could be some mixed feelings going on, wouldn't you say? Something could have happened the night before, a fight with a friend, family member, spouse or significant other.
By Nea Marina | Taking on Life Together7 years ago in Longevity
The Well Runs Dry
We’ve all heard some version of the saying “You can’t drink from an empty well.” As a stay-at-home mother with anxiety, depression, and a stress disorder that manifests it’s symptoms through paralysis, it is critical to try and keep my well as full as possible. When it’s near empty, it becomes as dangerous as an actual empty well. A seemingly bottomless pit waiting for you to hurl yourself into it. The daily challenges of living as a mom with anxiety and depression make my well seem very shallow. It doesn’t hold much water to begin with, and those reservoirs deplete very quickly when people constantly need to drink from your well every second of every day. It becomes a struggle to refill it as quickly as it is being used.
By Align and Incline Ash and India7 years ago in Longevity
Butterflies in Your Stomach
Have you ever gotten butterflies in your stomach? I sure have. But how? We have a brain-gut connection called enteric or intestinal nervous system. This causes the butterflies but also has many different affects on the body. It also “disturbs the natural rhythmic contractions that move through your gut” (Bergquist). The body does strange things. So that feeling of butterflies, the sweating, nervousness, shaking, all comes from the same place that will push that stress and anxiety that you are feeling into your gut which can cause things like IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome).
By Kyrsten Wagoner7 years ago in Longevity
Stress is Bad... or is it?
For so long stress has been something we see as bad. We know that the side affects of stress can cause real life threatening problems, and too much stress could eventually lead to a heart attack, and even death. Why is that? Why do we picture stress as such a bad thing to have in our life? Maybe it is because everyone I have ever talked to about stress told me that is was bad, and I shouldn’t stress. But stress is inevitable. What am I supposed to do then?
By Kyrsten Wagoner7 years ago in Longevity
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid personality disorder is different from schizophrenia in that schizophrenics are psychotic and delusional because they cannot be swayed from their delusions. People with schizoid avoid social activities, even avoiding people in general. Schizoid individuals are seen as loners who do not want to have a social life. Therapy helps schizoid individuals, as well as medication in some situations. Schizoids prefer being alone to being with other people. Schizoid people do not need close relationships since they do not want to be around people. They have little desire for sexually themed relationships. They would have problems feeling pleasure at anything, expressing emotions, and reacting to situations. They have a humorless, cold veneer to them.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez7 years ago in Longevity
Mental Illness: Treatment Versus Prevention
When sickness strikes, it is a great relief to find that treatments are available. Warmth can ease the common cold, antibiotics can fight bacterial infections, and surgery can realign a broken bone. Last spring I dislocated my shoulder, but since then physiotherapy has helped me regain full use of my arm. New treatments are introduced all the time, looking at everything from stroke rehabilitation to chlamydia. These help improve the lives of countless people across every continent.
By Daniel Peters7 years ago in Longevity
