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Is it possible to cure obsessive compulsive disorder without medication?

June 2, 2022 by admin

At some point in our lives we have felt involved under an obligation of our own thoughts, such as trying to solve something that we are sure is already done or that is simply spontaneously under control. Most people at some point have experienced obsessive ideas such as pollution, trying to always stay safe from … Read more

Myths about borderline personality disorder

February 7, 2017January 12, 2017 by admin

The borderline personality disorder or borderline is little known, probably the closest references are those we have seen in the cinema, in films like “Breakfast at Tiffany” or “Silver Linings Playbook”. But in reality this disorder is more complex than these sweetened versions of the cinema, which has led many to confusion since there is tiled a series of myths and false beliefs around us.

False: Borderline personality disorder is only found in women
While it is true that the number of women suffering from this disorder is higher, they are not the only ones; men can also suffer from it. As well as antisocial personality disorder, which is suffered in greater quantity by men, borderline personality disorder rests mostly on women, but does not gender discrimination.

What is Sundown Syndrome?

October 6, 2019March 18, 2016 by admin

The Sundowning, also known as Sundown Syndrome is a feature of some cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in which symptoms and behavioral changes occur simultaneously with the sunset. To learn what it is, why it happens and how to catch it early in elderly, whether or not these have been diagnosed with neurological or dementia disorders.

What is Sundown Syndrome and why it happens?

The sundowning is a fairly common phenomenon among patients with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other diseases of geriatric medicine, characterized by the presence of behavioral changes and cognitive in the last hours of the afternoon and into the evening. Patients may become irritable, aggressive, depressive, or also present problems of memory and cognition that, usually are generally absent in the daytime.

Hypnosis as a therapy to cure mental illness

September 22, 2024December 24, 2015 by admin

Hypnosis is the same as talking about the ‘Flash-Back’ method. At first often leads to rejection but has never experienced, especially because often associated with some television shows and theater and the reality is that, out of all this, it is a very useful or used tool in the field of health and medical.

What is hypnosis?

Hypnotism is defined as the “method for producing the artificial sleep by personal influence, or adequate equipment”. This method is carried out with due regard to the needs of stakeholders and enhancing their will. The method is basically relive past moments or memories that can assume to be a source of problems in our present.

Breathing Technique Against Fear And Anxiety

August 29, 2023June 16, 2013 by admin

Breathing not only allows our survival in its most basic form, it can also help to calm the anxieties and fears, and our moods change and renew our energies needed for daily life. In this article we will learn a breathing technique well directed can apply at any time and place, to calm the anxieties and fears in a particular situation, or to start the day well refreshed and positive.

What is Anxiety

Anxiety and fear are two sensations characteristic of our current lifestyle. Stress, worries, obligations and responsibilities have loads of stress and anxiety, we must learn to manage and control.

Information fatigue syndrome: That does not affect you

April 24, 2015January 8, 2013 by admin

Everyday our brain receives an enormous amount of information to be process and respond. But the excess, as in all aspects of life, it is also harmful.

The work, the many responsibilities, the family, the course of the economy, news, political, social, health and all the details that we meet every day. After the day is normal to feel exhausted and is that information overload to which we are exposed every day can make us victims of information fatigue syndrome.

Daily exercise helps fight Alzheimer’s

October 6, 2019June 9, 2012 by admin

The relationship between exercise and brain health is well known given the multiple investigations in this regard. Now, is there any type of exercise capable of lifting the mood, improving memory and at the same time protecting the brain from cognitive deterioration caused by age?

With aerobic exercise, researchers refer to any exercise that increases heart rate, movement and sweating for a minimum period of time: walking, running, cycling or basically any exercise that involves moving – performing weight lifting would be exercise mostly anaerobic, for example.

According to the researchers, some of these benefits can occur almost immediately or within a few minutes of physical exercise – such as improving mood. Others, on the other hand, require several weeks – such as memory improvement. To note these benefits, the researchers suggest that aerobic exercise should be done on a regular and constant basis, with a minimum of 45 minutes of continuous practice.

If there is a disease concern and much is Alzheimer’s. So they are increasingly frequent in research being conducted around the world about this mental illness.

Exercise for Alzheimer’s

The latest to be published in the journal Neurology notes the importance of daily exercise to prevent this disease. According to these results, the daily physical activity, even in older people, may help slow Alzheimer’s disease and improve their health and well-being.

Antipsychotics can increase cardiac risk

April 24, 2015February 26, 2012 by admin

Antipsychotics, which had already given warning signals, increase the risk of developing heart disease by simply taking it for a few months, a new study.

Among patients treated with these drugs are schizophrenics, which usually have a shorter life expectancy, so you have to deal with the role of antipsychotics in heart disease, said Debra Foley, Center for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It is known that the newer antipsychotics are associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes.

According to a new study, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, patients treated with antipsychotics tended to gain weight and suffer monthly increases in cholesterol after three or four months. Obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes increase the risk of heart disease.

Responses of homeopathy to anorexia and bulimia

April 21, 2015December 6, 2011 by admin

Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia are a real problem not only have the youngest, too many adults today have begun to be affected by this condition.

Many experts speak of the longing that many people have to imitate the “models” socially accepted beauty as well as oppressive family environment as a basis for developing such problems.

Homeopathy has not been kept out of this problem of modern society and offers to those who suffer from eating disorders such as emotional support as drugs that help to successfully overcome these ailments.