Health: Depression: Escape Your Mental Prison

Depression: Escape Your Mental Prison

Written by Jesse S. Somer

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There is an illness all around me in modern society that seems to be spreading like repparttar 114109 Black Plague once did in Europe so long ago. It's called depression, have you heard of it? Has it affected you? The more I look, repparttar 114110 more I see it in so many people in my life, including myself. Depression sucks. It's a real drag, and I mean real drag. It is different from repparttar 114111 feelings of unhappiness that all humans have to deal with in their lives. It is being in a solitary prison where you are repparttar 114112 only one who can see repparttar 114113 walls; you are repparttar 114114 jailor, repparttar 114115 guard, and repparttar 114116 prisoner all rolled into one. Sounds like fun huh? Well, we better become more aware of it because there are certain aspects of contemporary life that are causing more and more souls to lock themselves up, some believing that they have no hope of ever finding repparttar 114117 key out.

If you look up depression on repparttar 114118 Internet through a Google search query you will find a lot of different ways and means to manage or treat repparttar 114119 problem. There are Eastern and Western approaches, psychological and spiritual; today there are 15,400,000 links about repparttar 114120 subject. It seems to be on everybody's mind and yet we don't give it repparttar 114121 general social awareness that we do for other illnesses. This is probably because there are so many stigmas around faults with repparttar 114122 human mind. Broken bones and cancer we can understand or at least think we do; but we touch on a soft spot when we find a problem with that infinitely complex, helpful, magical device we call repparttar 114123 brain.

Recently I went to a public talk by a world famous Psychologist named Dorothy Rowe who was selling her new book, 'Depression: The way out of your prison". I'm not going to tell you that she has all repparttar 114124 answers, but I did like repparttar 114125 different approach that she took to repparttar 114126 illness. She's not against modern medication, but she feels that it can be only part of repparttar 114127 solution. Of course there are types of intense clinical depression that need certain chemicals to rebalance repparttar 114128 brain to a 'normal' working order, but for all depression she feels that repparttar 114129 focus could be shifted from a management to a prevention paradigm.

Dr Rowe focuses on repparttar 114130 assertion that depression comes when one's structure of interpreting repparttar 114131 world around you has been affected by some deeply negative occurrences (usually in one's youth). Her theory suggests that if a certain event happens to one hundred people, they will all probably interpret repparttar 114132 experience in an individual, different way; repparttar 114133 perceived 'reality' having been a resulting construct from one's life experiences. For example: Let's say you get fired from your job. Just about everyone is going to feel a general unhappiness and grieve over repparttar 114134 subsequent period. However, many people have built positive, optimistic ways of seeing life and will just go on and feel as though repparttar 114135 layoff was another necessary step or a momentary setback on repparttar 114136 way to their life's goals and dreams. "Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger." is a common sentiment from this type of personality.

"25 Things You Should Do Before You Stop Smoking"

Written by Joe Armstrong

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"25 Things You Should Do Before You Stop Smoking"

- by Joe Armstrong

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1. Write down why you want to stop

2. Write down why you like to smoke

3. Decide if you want to stop more than you want to smoke

4. If you do want to stop more than you want to smoke, continue with this checklist. If not, read on only when you're ready to quit

5. Continue to smoke until you've completed repparttar 114110 checklist.

6. Write down where, when and with whom you smoke

7. Write down what feelings lead you to reaching for a fag

8. Visualise yourself in repparttar 114111 same places, at repparttar 114112 same time, with repparttar 114113 same people and with repparttar 114114 same feelings without smoking.

9. In your imagination, what do you do, say, think and feel? Play out a scene in your head. For instance, someone offers you a smoke. How do you feel? What do you say?

10. Consider abstaining from alcohol while you're quitting smoking. Lots of people relapse while taking a drink

11. Focus on repparttar 114115 benefits you will enjoy by not smoking. Choose these rather than repparttar 114116 transitory satisfaction of a cigarette

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