I am currently being driven insane. It’s a direct psychological attack and is quite deliberate. The way it works is that I am told something is in a certain place… and then it’s not. Sounds harmless enough but when it happens 62-68 times a day, it causes severe mental trauma.
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by PsychCentral
Bright white light therapy has been used to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) for more than 20 years. Although it remains a mainstay of treatment, in the past few years researchers have investigated ways to improve and refine light therapy.
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Everyone has a few tricks for beating the blues – things you do when you’re feeling down to try to boost your mood. It turns out, however, that several of the most popular strategies don’t actually work very well in the long term. Beware if you are tempted to try any of the following…
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Stress is bad, right? Or is it good? Well, if you talk to the experts, they’ll say both are true. You need some stress to just get out of bed in the morning. And when you drive to work in your car, you need stress to stay alert and respond to what is in front of you. So stress has its place. But what if a high level of stress goes on and on? The doctors tell us that ongoing stress becomes Chronic Stress. Chronic Stress is bad news. It shuts down your immune system so you are susceptible to illness, and it robs you of a good night’s sleep.
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by Beyond Blue
We’ve officially entered the hard months, the “dark ages” as the midshipmen at the Naval Academy say: the time of the year when the sun disappears and the pale complexions of your friends remind you that you had better take your vitamins or else you’ll have a cold to go with your pasty look.
I dread winter each year because many of my depression busters require sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. What does a girl who kayaks and bikes for sanity do in the winter? Lots of things.
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by If you’re going through hell keep going
I was never a morning person, so I didn’t especially like getting up and going to work each day. I also have a limited theshold for idiocy not of my own making, and hated stupid obstacles created by others and got easily frustrated. One day, the business’ head honcho asked me how I could possibly go through life with such an outlook. The way he looked at things, we get a finite number of days in our lives, and he couldn’t understand how a person could stand to waste a single one
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Seeing a counselor is a big step on the road to wellness. When I first decided that seeing a counselor was something I should try, it was like feeling my way in the dark. I didn’t know why I should go or how it worked, how to choose one, how much it cost, etc.
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I have extensive personal experience with the phenomena of fatigue in terms of experimenting and listening to my body. My practical experience has taught me what makes fatigue worse and what helps overcome fatigue. Today I’m going to share with you what I’ve learned so that you can avoid certain key energy zappers and, I hope, improve the quality of your life.
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We need to pick ourselves up off the floor, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and do something that’ll genuinely make us happy, says U.S. psychology professor and author Tim Kasser. Materialism doesn’t bring happiness, he warns. Instead, he urges people to tune out as much advertising as possible so as to resist the urge for retail therapy.
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by PsychCentral
Right now, I have 36 windows opened up on my computer. No, I’m not doing (or trying to do) 36 things at once. It’s just that’s what happens when you give a dumb human like me the tools to open up 36 or 72 or 172 windows at once. It’s no wonder it’s so easy to lose track of where we are and what we’re doing.
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