DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

Depression is a very serious illness. The disorder already affected portion of general population. It often interferes with the normal functioning of the body and cause emotional pain and suffering of the mind. A man with serious depressive disorder destroyed his will to live. It gives him an unsound relationship with the people he loved especially his family.

It is called the whole-body illness affecting the body, mood and thoughts. There is problem in eating and sleeping. He treated his self differently. He has different perception about things he knew. The disorder is an indication of personal weakness and differences in his line of thought. He has no initiative to heal his body and mind. He is going down instead of going better. Keeping away from seeking medical treatment will put his symptoms to remain in weeks, months and in many years of inattention disregarding the opportunity for the healing, aside from interference in the ability to eat, sleep and enjoyment to his favorite sport.

Dysthymia is a long-term chronic symptoms not disabling but failed to function well in steaming fully. He has no desire in feeling good because he did not care.

Bipolar disorder has cycles of depression and elation mania. There was mood swing changing interest from time to time. It may be dramatic, rapid and gradual. It affected the way he think, his correct judgment and social interaction with other people that later on cause him serious embarrassment.

Depression has persistent anxiety, empty mood (silent, unfocused). He has sad face as if the burden is in his shoulder. He was very pessimistic in his belief. He treated a simple problem as hopeless case. He treated minor differences with guilt. He felt he was worthless and helpless.

He suddenly lost interest to the things he normally enjoyed. It doesn’t give him pleasure instead it bored him. His wakefulness affected his normal sleep pattern. His insomnia worsened. But if he is not awake, he oversleep.

There was problem in his appetite. He ate little or not at all. It cause him to lose weight. But if he likes to eat, he over-ate increasing his weight to pass the borderline level no longer in his normal weight anymore.

He easily got tired. He loses his energy that gives him fatigue and lost interest to work. He has suicidal tendencies thinking about death. He can’t stay long in one position. He was restless moving from position to another. He was irritable in minor differences. He easily explode his temper.

He was out-of-focus losing better concentration. He has memory loss unable to remember important events in his life. He has hard time making decision and rely on other people’s advice. He has chronic pain whatever the source. He often has headache and his digestive system is growling.

Most common cause of depressive episode are due to financial problem, difficult relationship, chronic illness that has no chance to recover, loss of someone he dearly love and changes in his life pattern he was not accustomed to do.

To determine the degree of depression, a thorough medical evaluation is needed including diagnostic tests.  It demands complete medical history, genetic history. The purpose is the degree of the illness when did it starts, how long it affected him, his treatment history and other questions to determine the deepness of the disorder and other factors that cause it.

To reduce the effect of depression, do the following:

-Don’t make difficult goal that you can’t handle.

-Don’t take bigger responsibility if you think you can’t carry the burden.

-Sept priorities to some of your function. Divide your task into smaller portion easy to manage.

-Don’t expect too much expectation of your ability for excellence. If you fail it hurts.

-Go with your friend, interact with them, to allocate time for socializing.

-If you are in the state of confusion, relax and join in physical action to be able to shift your mood to more useful one.

-Don’t easily get upset. Try to calm your nerve.

-Be positive in dealing with life.

Depression can be treated. Only complete medical examination is needed and better treatment is important by using effective drugs to be able to lessen or remove the impact of the effect of this kind of disorder.

QUITTING THE DANGEROUS SMOKE

Lung cancer is one of terminal illnesses many people don’t want to avoid. Even if they knew how dangerous the disease was, still they kept on pampering their personal habit without giving up an inch. Quitting for keep is the hardest. Fighting temptation is a torture. 

There still hope for the hopeless if they are willing to change their habit. Determination, sacrifice and common sense is the secret to be able to succeed.

If you are ready to do the following:

-Write down your reasons for quitting.

-Determine and be consistent when to start your quitting. Your determination to stop will guide you to break your smoking habit.

-To condition your will to quit, to have physical activity for 3 weeks will give you confidence and willing to refuse to the temptation.

-Have your own smoking record. This will record your initiative in the early days of your quitting program.

-Avoid the many triggers around you that will induce you to smoke.

-Reward yourself if you succeeded to control the triggers.

 

-Keep away from your friends that smoke. You can’t defend your urge to smoke.

 -Drink plenty of water or juices. It will alter the urge to get one stick.

-If you failed now, don’t give up. Repeat the process. If you tripped, regain your balance. Fight it the next time.

The withdrawal symptom is only temporary. It may last more or less 2 weeks. Review your position to minimize the effect until you are confident to proceed in your quitting program.  It just normal to relapse but it does not mean you have to continue and surrender your goal.

-Find a task to keep you occupied shifting your mind from the urge to smoke.

-Avoid coffee and other beverages that will induce you to smoke.

-Go with that “don’t smoke”. Make the environment more lively. Strike a conversation that is interesting to lengthen company with other non-smokers.

-Brush your teeth to remove all visible stain from nicotine. This is also to maintain personal hygiene.

-Music will distract you from thinking the unthinkable to smoke. It relaxes your sense of well-being.

-Develop confidence and your desire to stay away with smoke.

-Keep away to the place called the smoking zone. It will only aggravate your problem.

-Keep refresh by taking a bath often. It will help to calm your nerve.

-Initiate to have plenty of rest to relax your mind from the mental pressure.

-Don’t try to tempt yourself even one stick. It may lead to another.

-Chew sugarless gum to keep your mouth occupied.

-Avoid letting your urge or craving for a smoke.

-Practice breathing exercise. It will help to reduce the tension.

-Always think positive in your desire to quit. Keep away from the negative feeling that it can’t be done.

-Developing willpower is the only key to succeed in your goal.

Keeping away from smoke is not an easy task, even how hard it is - what you have been doing is for your own benefit. If you value your life then stop.

Remember that nicotine is the cause of lung cancer. It blocked the airways and destroy the cells. Your cooperation will save you. Don’t allow yourself to care less on your health. We live only once, we have to make life more useful and colorful maintaining healthy life. 

Your family are depending on you. Don’t fail them. You are the only one they’ve got.

Making your choice to slip doesn’t help you instead it worsen your dependence of your dangerous habit of smoking that will destroy you and your family as well.

A LITTLE EXERCISE IS A LIFETIME OF HEALTH

Does exercise ring a bell in your ears? Are you willing to sacrifice little of your time for better health? I am sure you do. But there are people who are lazy enough to stretch their body to stay healthy.  It seemed for them exercise is hard labor they can imagine that can only waste their time.  They don’t understand that physical exercise can lengthen life for many years. Just little exercise means a lot to the body system to do their work efficiently. It is a wake call for the body system not to sleep on their function to attain general wellness and healthy body mechanism. It gives internal energy to trigger responsive action that benefits health.

Exercise makes the brain more active and can easily response to give optimum performance. It induces mental alertness and memory enhancement. The brain will work tirelessly and has good mental focus.

Exercise restores the waning energy. It replenishes what had been lost and recharge again for another day’s work. The body becomes revitalize and ready to face another challenge during the day by stretching limbs and muscles.

The disadvantage of lessening the interest of performing physical fitness is that you can tire easily even without working too much. Climbing stairs make you gasping for breath because the systems are not accustomed to do little pressure.  Running short distance beats your heart fast weakening and draining your energy.

If you always rest, you don’t have the appetite to work. Sitting in your chairs most of the time or sleeping anytime of the day will only worsen your laziness instead of doing things useful. We work to put our lives more comfortable and convenient. Lack of exercise put the body in restlessness. You can’t easily sleep during the night. If you can’t sleep, there are many useless thought that will come into your mind. You explore anything the mind can reach.

The most unhealthful benefits you can get from not doing little exercise is increasing your waistline. You are weighing fast storing fat in every nook and crevice of the body where it lives and stays for longer time threatening your health. If the fats remain there for long, getting disease is 100% percent sure.

 It starts to clog your arteries and small veins narrowing the space. Once the blood clot in the vessels blocking the normal flow of blood in its intended distribution lines, it ex explodes then heart attack will occur. The victim will die prematurely because of the kind of lifestyle they engage without burning enough fat to loosen the fat from where it hides. This is the reason we have to be more cautious to the level of our cholesterol. If found to reach to dangerous level then rigid physical activities is necessary to burn lore fats and reduce the threat.

It is hard to stop eating your favorite food laden with fats. You give much importance is what it satisfies you. You are after the feeling of satisfaction because the taste bud says so. The pleasure of eating was the reason of many deaths. They knew the effect but they are deaf enough to listen to what is the proper way to do.

It is not a compulsory attitude to exercise too much because some person that has illness is not recommended to be tired but little exercise may help to stretch the muscles even a light walk around will do.

If you are healthy enough to handle enough pressure then share few of your time early morning for the healthiness of your limbs. Don’t rely to riding a vehicle if it is only short distance to take a ride. Walk and you will perspire removing all the harmful toxins in your body, relaxing your feeling, removing all the stresses of the day, calming the nerves, pacifying anger and wellness of the mind and body.

Instead of sitting in your chair and seeing your favorite program often while munching snacks containing fat - you better change your belief and shapes up. Once you reach adulthood or middle years in your life or the later stages of old age, to stay fit and healthy is the best way to live longer.  The elasticity of the muscles diminished, the energy waned and the bones can easily snap even in a little twist. This is the age of disease. The aged are susceptible to many diseases. The fitness of the body can survive for many years more.

Exercise for adults gives their body better posture, flexibility and joint mobility of the muscles. It preserves and keeps steady their strength. It stimulates the function of the circulatory system for effective distribution of blood.

A little exercise means a lot of benefits to have sound body and mind may it be emotional, physical and mental, all in one, exercise can answer all these needs.

In summary, exercise may bring the following benefits:

-It avoids physical and mental stagnation and become active.

-It brings greater productivity. It builds self-assurance in whatever endeavor is taken.

-It develops positive image, self-confidence and better personality.

-It can give greater endurance and solid strength and strong muscles.

-It reduces stressful event, tension and mental lapses.

- It gives better back posture.

-It controls weight problem and good appetizer or inducer for good meal.

-It allows blood circulation to become effective, coronary and arteries widens to facilitates good passage.

-It reduces cholesterol to have a fewer attack.

-It gives efficiency for normal beat of the heart.