Category: Mental Health


What is the Borderline Personality Disorder

Filed Under: Mental Health
Mar.17, 2011

borderline personality disorderThe borderline personality disorder is a mental illness more frequent. Carries an important suffering, not only for the person who suffers it but also for their families and friends. It is a condition that starts in early childhood, but often do not fully displayed until adulthood young (from 20 to 25 years old).

It is a common disorder that is estimated to affect between 10 and 14 percent of the general population. The person does not support the loneliness and carries out great efforts to avoid being abandoned, whether the abandonment is real or imaginary.

In turn have a rapid change of emotions and sensations chronicles of empty.

What the symptoms of borderline personality disorder?

People with this disorder often have uncertainty about their identity and as a result its interests and values can change rapidly. People with this disorder also tend to see things in terms of extremes, either all good or all bad. Their points of view on other people can change rapidly. A person who looks admirer a day may look disparaging the next day. These feelings suddenly changing too often lead to intense relationships and unstable.

Other symptoms of this disorder include

  • Fear of being abandoned.
  • Feelings of emptiness and boredom.
  • Frequent manifestations of anger inappropriate.
  • Impulsiveness with money, the consumption of substances, sexual intercourse, the appetite.
  • Rampant and shoplifting.
  • Intolerance of being alone.
  • Crisis and repetitive acts of harming yourself, how to take cuts in the wrists or take overdose.

The suggestion for the treatment of this mental disorder:

  • An adequate treatment of the borderline personality disorder, you need to be multidisciplinary.
  • Need to be done with psychiatrists, psychotherapists, specialized education and day care centers or psychiatric emergency ward, and to help the family.
  • The treatment should be applied in all its intensity, and in a continuous manner, when the patient has between 12 and 35 years old.
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Manage Your Anger to Have Emotional Health

Filed Under: Mental Health
Dec.26, 2010

The people sometimes do not know what is the cause of his anger, how much anger are holding inside or how to express anger. You may have madness in connection with certain events, and himself or in connection with the actions of other people. In addition, many little things can build up to make believe that life is unfair.

If you realize that is being too irritable or that are taking risks that are not healthy (such as taking alcohol or abusing drugs) you can have a problem to solve the madness. It is very important that you talk to a doctor or with a counselor about getting help.

The people who are emotionally healthy have control over their thoughts, feelings and behavior. They feel good themselves and have good interpersonal relationships. Can put the problems in perspective.

It is important to remember that people who have good emotional health sometimes have emotional problems or mental illness. The mental illness often has a physical cause such as a chemical imbalance in the brain. The stress and problems in the family, work or school can sometimes lead to a mental illness or make it worse. However, the people who are emotionally healthy have developed ways to cope with stress and problems. They know when you need to seek help from your doctor or a counselor.

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What you can do to Exercise your Memory

Filed Under: Brain Health, Mental Health
Aug.09, 2010

If you always do in the same way, your mind is accustomed to a routine and not creates new connections between the brain cells. That is why, it is important challenge, remove it from their schemes and put new tasks. Here you tale how you can do to have a memory in the form:

  1. Games for the memory as the Sudoku, Chess, Minesweeper, the anagrams, read with speed, doing crossword puzzles, etc. There are places in the Internet in where you can find these games, or in magazines and newspapers that you can also find them. There are also table games that involve questions and answers that are entertaining and are excellent for storing data.
  2. Training exercises that involve memorize (try recall any list or outline), displayed (for example, if you want remember the name of a person displays how it is, what it does, what clothes had when the dresses, etc. ), reasoning (understand something through association of ideas) and solve problems of logic.
  3. Jump in the comfort and perform complex tasks. For example, prepares your taxes, read a book on how to open a new company and follow the instructions step by step, weapon a piece of furniture. And you will be forcing your brain to pay much attention and to understand, which is an excellent training.
  4. Tells stories: The read demands put all your attention and more when you want to tell the story to other people.
  5. Learn another language: The talk more of a language challenges to your brain steadily, especially when you have to translate or explain what that means a word in another language.
  6. Exercise regularly. The phrase “healthy mind in healthy body” is absolutely certain. What is good for your body is good for your brain. The sedentary contributes to that develop conditions such as hypertension, which can affect the memory.
  7. Avoids spend hours watching TV. While more time spend in activities that are not challenging your brain, the more likely you will have to lose the memory.

As you can see there are many options fun to exercise your brain and have good memory. If in the kitchens, try the memories recipes. If you like the poems or stories remind and tells somebody. If you like walking looking different paths that make your brain to remember different routes. The challenge your brain is fun. The memory loss, it is not.

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Sleeping Disorder like Insomnia could be Caused by many Factors

Filed Under: Mental Health
Jul.27, 2010

Among the various sleep disorders, are: narcolepsy – attack sharp of sleep, nightmares, sleepwalking – wandering asleep, drowsiness and insomnia.

The insomnia is one of the more frequent sleep disorders. Implies the decrease involuntary number and quality of hours of sleep, with the negative consequences of the inability to recover the energies expended in the course of the day.

This alteration is more common in women than in the men; and in the elderly in young people. In our country there is a 60 percent of the population suffering from this problem.

The insomnia may occur in several ways: difficulties to start the dream, difficulty to keep it, and once the person is awakened at midnight cannot go back to sleep. Any disturb the psychic activity, organic and metabolic, activity during the day, can cause insomnia.

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What the Professional Advised to Have a Better Quality of Life

Filed Under: Healthy Life, Mental Health
Jun.14, 2010

Doubtless certain tip from professional like doctor in make our life more bearable. One of our difficulties, mainly associated with health services, which prevail in our respective countries are that the doctor, covered by the bureaucracy, the paperwork, audits, his own job instability. It is unable to establish the necessary communication with the patient. In this task, what the doctor says is better than a box of medicines.

This brief synthesis touches of alleviating this bump and carry a little more knowledge to fibromyalgia, CFS or any sick with a chronic that causes pain.

Excess muscle tension
Relaxation: breathing reassuring (practiced in situations in which note an excess of muscle tension).

Anxiety

  • Relaxation (detect the start of the physical symptoms that serve as alarm signal to start practicing the relaxation).
  • Sadness, depression
  • Activities rewarding (recover activities abandoned that before he liked; encourage small daily activities that gladden your day to day).

Concerns about fibromyalgia

  • Focus attention on different aspects of the pain (useful with low levels of pain).
  • Reduce the comments and complaints about the pain (search topics of conversation pleasant).

Negative Thoughts
Detect negative thoughts and replace them with other positive and more realistic (remove the glasses to see all black and look at the problems from another point of view to find alternatives).

Daily Activities
Activities abandoned by the fault of pain: go recovering very little by little the activities lost (taking into account and adopted to their limitations).

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