selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
5 Useful Stress Busters for Today’s Challenging Times
The Sun never rises in the west. Today’s world will never stop bombarding us with stress. We can’t stop stress triggers. It is possible to trick our mind to come out of stress. We can defeat heart attacks and death at an early age by keeping our stress at bay. At its optimum level, stress motivates us to perform well under pressure. Yet, if we don’t manage high levels of unwanted stress, our health and sense of well-being can suffer. Here are some tips for getting your stress under control.
By Anitha Sankaran5 years ago in Psyche
The Battle for Sleep
The most strained relationship in my life is my relationship with sleep. I was the youngest of five kids growing up in a two-bedroom condo. In order to make the most of limited space, my brothers and I slept in bunk beds. Most nights, I spent endless hours staring at the slats of the bunk above me, letting morbid thoughts creep into my mind. What if the bunk bed broke and I ended up impaled on one of those slats? When that got to be too much, I would turn to the wall. The wallpaper was ships at sea and even though the image was always the same, the scenarios I created in my mind were ever-changing. Sometimes I would run my hand over the wallpaper, feeling the bump where my mother plastered over the hole.
By Mack Devlin5 years ago in Psyche
What Is the Difference Between Mental Health and Mental Illness?
The difference between mental health and mental illness isn’t clear to many people. It’s easier to understand the difference when you treat them as separate entities. Mental health is about mental wellness - we all have mental health. Mental illness is when someone is diagnosed with a mental disorder.
By Maulik Borsaniya5 years ago in Psyche
Fear
All of us experience fear at some time or another and if we didn’t we’d be oblivious to danger so it’s nothing that should cause us to feel weak. However, many people develop such an innate sense of fear that it begins to have a detrimental impact upon almost all aspects of their lives.
By T. S. Michaels5 years ago in Psyche
Managing & Controlling Stress
We will all experience stress to a certain degree in our day-to-day lives. It could be as a result of a personal setback e.g. a relationship breakdown or a bereavement, a health issue, maybe losing a job or it may be due to other pressures at work. In fact, stress can manifest itself for any number of reasons and, in certain instances, a ‘healthy’ level of stress can actually have positive benefits for us. This often occurs at work where a manageable degree of pressure often spurs us on to be more productive.
By T. S. Michaels5 years ago in Psyche
Detoxifying Toxicity
Covid-19 hurt, in a lot of different ways. I had to take in a roommate because bills were getting tight and I had to find a way to make ends meet. I had made friends with a coworker that I thought I had gotten to know really well and asked her to move in with me since. When she first moved in, it was great, we got along well and she treated my daughter really well too. Soon, I had found out that she actually had a crush on me and wanted to be in a relationship with me, though she had never been with a female before. I didn't really feel the same, and she used that against me and started to treat me differently. She asked me why I asked her to move in if I wasn't interested in her like that, which left me baffled because I didn't think I had given her any indication that I was interested in her that way.
By Crissy Cornwell5 years ago in Psyche
Daily Meds Vol II: Survival
Anxiety, nervous energy, or any form of mental discomfort are remarkable phenomena when you really stop to consider them. They first manifest as survival responses, meant to keep us safe in new or threatening situations; but slowly, they become natural states of being for most people as self-awareness grows with age. The fact that we can even feel these responses is itself amazing; we are so highly tuned to the world that your chemistry constantly varies based on the slightest changes in threat level. But therein lies the problem: we all want to survive for as long as possible, but nobody wants to live a life in a state of emotional captivity. The problem is that we are very rarely under any real threat, and yet the mind treats all threats in a similar way. We have to learn to be more discerning in our analysis of that which enters our life.
By T.K. Sanders5 years ago in Psyche
Cortisol and Stress
Cortisol is closely associated with stress. It is a hormone which is the key element that works in the body's stress response and often measured as an indicator of stress. Cortisol has a vital role in the body's functioning, secreted by the adrenal glands. Primarily, it aids in the following functions to generate; proper glucose metabolism, regulation of blood pressure, insulin release for blood sugar maintenance, immune function and inflammatory response (Scott, 2018).
By Shanie Walker5 years ago in Psyche
