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Mental Health And Addictions — Real Stories, Real People

Substance abuse is a serious mental health disorder and needs to be treated as a mental illness and not disregarded as a lack of self-control or other “lifestyle choice.” Many victims of substance abuse and addiction disorders experience other, co-occurring mental illnesses — such as depression and bipolar disorder — that result from traumatic experiences early in their lives. “Julie’s” story emphasizes this condition. Although her name has been changed to protect her identity, Julie’s story can still inspire hope for millions of people battling with addictions disorders.  Read more...

Helping Someone With Mental Health Issues

There are many misconceptions about mental health issues. Some don’t realize that these often come about because of a problem within the brain. This happens when some of the chemicals needed for feeling good or for stable thinking are blocked. Bouts of depression are common when something bad or tragic happens, but the lingering depression can be another problem all together. Those who are bipolar have spans of depression and then a bout of manic behavior. These can be treated, but those who know someone with any mental issues should know how to care for someone with these conditions.  Read more...

Omega 3 and Mental Health – What The Experts Aren’t Saying And How It Can Affect Your Health!

Omega 3 fatty acids play a vital role in our health and well-being. But, are Omega 3 and mental health connected? If yes, how do the benefit the brain? Find out the expert answers to these important questions in this article.

Fish is one of the best “brain foods” due to its high omega 3 content. The amazing health benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids on the brain health are well known. It helps in the brain development and optimal functioning.  Read more...

Debt and Mental Health

The last year has been horrendous for those in debt. How many of you have considered the effect that this has had on the health of those in debt. Report after report has now highlighted the link between mental health problems and debt. It has been revealed that as many as half the population with mental health issues have debt problems.

It also seems that the more debts one has the worse the problem is likely to be. These problems usually stem from the lack of financial literacy or access to specialised debt help. Indeed it seems that the highest level of personal debt, is experienced by those with the greatest mental health problems.  Read more...

What Skills Do I Need to Be A Mental Health Nurse

Mental Health Nurses are called upon for a wide variety of tasks that require a specific set of skills. Not everyone is capable of meeting the demands of the position, but those that do are in high demand. Working as a mental health nurse can sometimes be challenging, but it offers the opportunity to help people in desperate need and fulfil one of the most important roles in British society.  Read more...

How Can Schizophrenia Affect the Mental Health of a Person?

Everyone responds differently to these anti-psychotic drugs and hence sometimes, several drugs and variations have to be tried to finally get the right one. Excessive production or modest production neurotransmitter, may account for the series of mental health issues, including schizophrenia.

How is Schizophrenia treated?

Medication: While putting the patients on medication greatly reduces the symptoms of Schizophrenia and to a huge extents helps restore their lives to normal, but these drugs do not completely cure them.

What are the symptoms of Schizophrenia?  Read more...

Can Sleep Disorder Affect Your Mental Health?

What are the common sleep disorders?

Work at night – your biological clock gets disturbed if you remain awake at night due to work. In case you have sleep disorders you cannot breathe properly thereby causing the oxygen levels in your blood to drop.

Medications – some medicines like antidepressants can cause sleep disorders. According to one estimate approximately 55% of people have sleep disorders in one form or the other. Your mental health is not a good shape.

What are the causes of sleep disorder?  Read more...

Music & Mental Health

Music has the power to influence people’s emotions; it can make them happy, sad, or angry. Music can also aid in the recovery of mental illnesses.

The Geriatric Mental Health Department of the Chhatarati Shahuju Maharaj Medical University in India is starting a music therapy clinic to treat elderly patients with mental disorders (like dementia). Nearly 5% of elderly people older than 60 suffer from dementia.  Read more...

Music Therapy Benefits And Mental Health

People noticed the healing, almost miraculous influence of music on people’s mental health long time ago. Nowadays these observations are being successfully scientifically confirmed. Did you know that, according to British scientists, classical music contributes to longer dinners at restaurants? Ever heard that the level of stress hormones in our blood decreases strikingly if we practise listening to relaxing music? Don’t you know that cheerful songs are healthy for people with heart disease?  Read more...

How to Maintain you Mental Health?

Mental health is simply the state of successful performance of all our mental functions. This is difficult to describe but when one is mentally healthy one is able to perform there day to day activities successfully and is able to manage healthy inter personal relationship, be able to cope with change and handle diversity. While in our normal day to day life we do not observe what mental health is all about it, we only get curious about it once we notice something is wrong or the absence of good mental health and even then most of the times we choose to ignore it.  Read more...

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