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10 top tips for dealing with everyday stress

What is stress?

Stress is our body’s way of dealing with thing it sees as threats. It’s how we prepare to run away from or confront danger. Unfortunately, many things that trigger stress in our lives today aren’t things that we can fight or flee.

Why is stress a problem?

Stress isn’t a problem, per se, but if stress continues, it can become chronic and can lead to other problems, including anxiety, depression, and even physical ailments.

How can I deal with stress?

You can take some practical steps to prevent, combat, and cope with stress, as well as maintain physical and mental health. Here are 10 top tips to deal with everyday stress:

  1. When you’re feeling overwhelmed or unable to cope, thinking about suicide, or turning to substance abuse, seek out a licensed mental health practitioner.
  2. Address any current health problems.
  3. Stay close to your support base, like friends, family, work, or church associates.
  4. Know your body’s responses to stress, such as insomnia, substance use, anger, depression, or low energy.
  5. Prioritize your life. Know what needs to get done and what can wait.

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Researchers recently published an article in International Journal of Science and Research that recommended these 5 natural ways for dealing with sleep disorders.

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Free online course on nutrition and mental health

Are you interested in learning about the role of nutrition in managing mental health from expert researchers in the field?

In their online course, Nutrition and Mental Health, Drs. Bonnie Kaplan and Julia Rucklidge provide critical, research-based information on the role of nutrition in preventing and treating mental health challenges. They augment their presentation with a brief review of changes in nutrition over the past several centuries and introduce the potential mechanisms of action in micronutrient treatments.

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How journalling helps you cope with trauma

American researchers published an article a few years ago in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, showing that journalling can be an effective tool in managing mental health.

The researchers randomly assigned the 122 participants into one of 3 groups: emotional expression, cognitions and emotions, and control. Over a period of a month, all 3 groups were to write at least twice a week in a journal about the following assignments:

Emotional expression

Write about their deepest feelings about a past traumatic event that still causes stress for them.

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How making art can get you out of a funk

In 2008, American researchers at Boston College published a study in Motivation and Emotion, exploring whether creating visual art can help repair mood in the short term.

The researchers randomly assigned 75 participants into one of 3 groups: venting, positive emotion, and control. All participants watched a 3.5-minute clip of a concentration camp scene in the World War II film Band of Brothers.

Following the film, the venting group were told to draw an image expressing how they felt related to the film.

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How smiling (even if you don’t want to) can cheer you up

American Researchers at Clark University published a study in Cognition and Emotion exploring how practised expressions affect actual emotions and the types of memories we recall.

The researchers randomly split roughly 50 participants into one of 3 groups: anger, sadness, and happiness. Each participant was asked to pretend that they were feeling their assigned emotion and to produce the corresponding facial expressions (for example, smiling if you’re supposed to pretend you’re happy).

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12 reasons pets are good for your mental health

Feeling down or lonely? Lacking confidence? Shy?

Have you considered getting a pet?

In 2011, American researchers published an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology exploring the connection between pet ownership and well-being. They studied over 370 people spread among 3 studies, and what they found was that pet owners tend to fare better than those without pets.

Here are 12 mental health benefits to owning a pet, according to the study:

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Letters from Generation Rx

If you have doubts about the safety of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of mental health disorder, you must watch this award-winning film by Kevin P. Miller. Letters from Generation Rx powerfully tells the real stories of people whose lives have changed through medication, for the worse. It also highlights Truehope’s mission to change the status quo and empower people with holistic knowledge and solutions.

Watch the film and see for yourself. Then share it with someone else.

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How sunlight can help you fight depression

Did you know that light and darkness affect our hormonal levels?

Sunlight, for example, can help us produce serotonin, a hormone that boosts our mood, calms our mind, and helps us to focus. Darkness, on the other hand, helps us produce melatonin, which is the hormone that makes us sleepy and is critical to our getting a good night’s sleep.

Not only does sunlight help you increase serotonin, but the reverse is also true. The Mayo Clinic, an American nonprofit medical practice and medical research group,

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27 ways to boost your mood naturally

It’s normal for each of us to feel blue or sad. When our best friend moves away, or we lose a job, or we receive a poor mark on a test, we all feel disappointment or hurt. We may be despondent, and it may even get us down for a few days.

Depression, on the other hand, lasts much longer. Plus, it’s so pervasive, that it can interfere with your daily life routines, and it can even adversely affect your relationships with family,

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23 symptoms of ADHD

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects almost 10% of American children between 13 and 18 years old, as well as 4% of U.S. adults over 18. ADHD has 3 primary characteristics: Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

Inattention

  1. Effortlessly distracted, fail to catch details, forgetful, and regularly switch activities
  2. Difficulty focusing
  3. Quickly bored with projects, unless it is something they enjoy
  4. Find organizing and completing tasks, or learning something new, to be challenging
  5. Struggle completing or submitting homework or other assignments
  6. Often lose things which are essential in completing tasks
  7. Difficulty listening in conversations
  8. Daydream
  9. Often confused
  10. Sometimes move slowly
  11. Struggle to quickly and accurately process information
  12. Have hard time following instructions

Hyperactivity

  1. Often restless,

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