A Look at the Different Depression and Anxiety Medications
August 31, 2008
While it may be easy to recite the various brand names and generalize their benefits enough to know they put us (or are supposed to put us) in a better mood, for lack of a better term, the drugs themselves can all be categorized individually, each working in a slightly different way.
The following is a list and very brief description, by category, of depression and anxiety medications currently prescribed by physicians.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
SSRIs, which are fairly new to the arsenal of depression and anxiety medications, have gained immense popularity among prescribing psychiatrists within the past 10 years. They are usually prescribed during the early stages of depression, if a person has sought help and behavioral and/or psychotherapy has not proven effective enough. With appropriate dosage, SSRIs can “catch” depression before it becomes severe. Although they do not work for 20% to 40% of people who try them, their ability to work for people with minor (and even major) depressive illnesses makes them attractive enough to prescribing psychiatrists to try them first before moving on to more serious depression and anxiety medications and methods, if need be. SSRIs work on serotonin, one of the brain’s three neurotransmitters.
Life Walking: Dont Walk Just For Exercise - Change Your Life
August 30, 2008
“Life walking” is more than walking for exercise and fitness objectives. It’s the larger ideal of using walking to change your life.
The objective for this New Year is simple: Get moving. Don’t wait. Time is running out on your sedentary lifestyle. What can you do to make this year count for your weight loss goals - and your life walking? Two simple things at least:
One: If you’re the type who is doing absolutely nothing right now, please start to do some walking regularly. Any walking at all contributes to physical activity ? and well-being. If you’re already modestly active, then do a little more every day and you’ll feel great. You will lose weight but gain something else - a life walking!
Two: Walking is the numero uno activity you should focus on. Sure, there are millions of other choices for exercise, but we all know of people who are waiting till they find the “best exercise”. How many of them are in fact wasting more time looking, rather than finding? That kind of ultra-perfectionism in choices leads nowhere.
Getting the Most Out of Your Supplements and Yourself
August 29, 2008
Are you not feeling any results from your nutritional supplements?
Here are a few reasons why you might not be feeling results.
1. You need to take more times a day. 3 pills all at once doesn’t work as well as one 3 x day. Its like food, you use it up and need more later for continual repair and wellness. Take it the product 3 x day and no less than twice for sure.
2. You may not be assimilating it. So should get on a manna cleanse supplement or even an herbal intestinal cleanse for a while. Check with your nutritonal source for one that they have good results using. Also take enzymes with your meals or with your supplements to help your body digest them better. You can also take Chinese herbs to build up your digestion. So to recap clean out elimination system, and enhance your digestive system for better assimilation.
3. When symptoms persist,(particularily PMS or Menopausal symptoms) or disease states like fibromyalgia or MS, you need to get on a Candida detox program that gets the bad things eliminated. Once the fungus and yeast are gone, the supplement implications become very noticeable in your diet and stamina. We see this happen all the time.
The TRUTH About How to Lose Weight
August 28, 2008
The huge companies stealing your money by promising impossible results if you just drink their shake, take their pill, or do 10 minutes of exercise on their wiz-bang machines are abusing your trust in the name of profits and market share.
The real truth is that most (if not all) the products they’re peddling are worthless ? to you, that is. To them, the products are incredibly valuable ? because they’re raking in huge profits at your expense.
· Are you sick of the hype and outright deception being fed to you by the weight loss and fitness industries?
· Are you tired of being led to believe it’s your fault when the junk they push on you doesn’t work?
· Do you want someone you can trust to tell you the truth about real, lasting weight loss and fitness, and show you how to quickly and easily adapt your eating and exercising habits so you can achieve the results you want and deserve?
If you answered "YES!" to any of these questions, then this may be the most important article you ever read.
No More Winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida
August 27, 2008
No More Winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida
by: Conrad Allen
Those that know me think I’m a pretty happy fellow-and I am. I love a good joke, I’m quick with a smile, and I like meeting new people-that’s why I chose sales as a career. But during fall and winter it was a real struggle to smile. Something about winter always sucked the wind from my sails. It was 3 to 4 months of torture. But I never let on how much I hated winter. HATED IT!
I had Winter Blues Depression Syndrome. (I made that term up) It wasn’t depression in the clinical sense, it was more like “When will Spring get here? I can’t take many more dark, cold days”. I also felt cheated out of days of life when it was too cold to venture outdoors and I stayed cooped up in the house. There had to be a cure.
There’s a scientific term called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a depression that occurs during the fall and winter months due to a drop in brain serotonin levels. Results indicated that the activity of serotonin-containing neurons was lowest during the fall and winter and highest in spring and summer, when sunlight is most plentiful. Serotonin was obviously in very short supply in my brain. I had to find a supply and a cure for SAD.
A Bellyful of Mindfulness
August 27, 2008
Taco Bell, the Mexican fast-food franchise, has a new ad campaign focusing on the slogan, “Get full.” The commercials show people ecstatically announcing that they are full–thanks, of course, to the huge value meals now available at Taco Bell.
We know that feeling full isn’t simply a matter of building a bigger, better burrito. There’s a whole lotta emptiness going on, and it’s not always filled by what we put into our bellies.
The search for connection, for meaning, for love–these are longings not met by the bags we pick up at the drive-thru window. To feel full in the truest sense, we must figure out what we are lacking in our lives. We’re not always mindful of this quest.
Seeking satisfaction in activity? That can work. Be honest here–is your time spent actively avoiding emptiness or actively seeking fullness? These are two different things. If you find yourself with a full calendar and an empty heart, you’re bathing yourself in distraction, and sooner or later, that’s going to plug up your bathtub.
Being full doesn’t mean you’re packed with positive thoughts and emotions all the time. We need the whole enchilada to help us develop as caring, compassionate humans, and sometimes that means we are full of frustration, sadness or despair.
By-Rote Combinations
August 26, 2008
Do not believe that practicing “by rote” 1-2-3,etc. type “responses” to street attacks is a viable or particularly useful training exercise. Example: He does this, I do that. For attack A I use Defense A.
Realize that in a street fight there are far too many variables, too many contingencies. Uncle Murphy rules the roost. Terrain, weather, injuries, any number of unforeseen deficits is one major concern.
The variety of assailants (size, number, weight, height, mental state, tolerance to pain, clothing) is another major stumbling block.
Train your “tools”, study your “targets” and master your “opening gambit”, anything “rehearsed” past that point, that initial sudden and explosive action is unrealistic.
ANYONE with real experience knows this. Whatever can go wrong…….WILL! So your training must emphasize instinctive and spontaneous “reactions” as opposed to attempted by rote “responses”. You “take” whatever the attacker gives you, or make whatever opening you need, but there is NO way to know this before hand!
Many so-called “combative” systems miss the most fundamental principle of training……..K.I.S.S.!
A padded syllabus may “look” impressive and “complete” but in light of the stark realities of survival, they are counter-productive.
10 Tips on How to Give Yourself the Best Chance for Success on a First Date- Especially if You Have
August 25, 2008
10 Tips on How to Give Yourself the Best Chance for Success on a First Date- Especially if You Have
by: Amy Schoen
Let’s say during the last couple of weeks you have communicated with someone of interest via emails and several telephone conversations. There is obvious “phone chemistry” and there is a mutual interest in meeting each other. You both agree to meet in person -now for the moment of truth!
1. Visualize Success: Think about your wonderful attributes and not your faults. Take an inventory of your values, skills, talents, interests and “heart”. Leave all your negative thoughts at home.
2. Keep Your Expectations in Check: Don’t start imagining yourself at the alter with your date. Ask yourself these 3 questions: Do I like the person? Does the conversation flow easily with one another? Is there any kind of attraction? That’s it. If you answer yes to these questions, then be open to seeing the person again.
3. Dress Appropriately for a Date: Be presentable, neat, well-groomed and in casual dress clothes. Don’t come in a t-shirt and jeans for men and for women, do not come dressed to kill by looking overly sexy like you are going to a nightclub. Strive to look like the guy or girl next door and someone who would be proper to bring home to their parents.
Is Your Muscle Building Potential Limited By Your Genes?
August 24, 2008
It is clear that certain traits are handed down to us by our parents and unfortunately our ablility to grow muscles beyond certain limits is no exception. That doesn’t mean to say hard work and carefully planned training won’t have a positive effect on your physique - it just means that some people will inherit a greater abundance of the favored physical characteristics than others. Not everyone possesses the physical traits to become a champion, but you can work wonders with the raw material you do possess.
How responsive you will be to physical stimulation can be predicted to a certain extent by examining your somatype or natural body shape. Basically, there are three recognized body types:
1. Endomorphs - these individuals tend to be squat with a round torso, thick neck and short limbs.
2. Mesomorphs - these individuals tend to be musclar with broad shoulders, powerful chest and limbs and little body fat.
3. Ectomorphs - these individuals tend to be slim and are usually tall with little muscle and body fat.
Why is it so EASY to GAIN WEIGHT during the HOLIDAYS?
August 23, 2008
I’m sure you have pondered this question, for it is no secret that we all tend to put on a few pounds during this magical time of year! For many of us across the globe it is a tradition to ring in the New Year with our belts loosened and seams bursting. Read on for 5 reasons why it is so easy to gain weight during the month of December, and what you can do to avoid them!
REASON #1: Have Yourself a Merry Little Eggnog
What tastes better on a cold December day than a mug of Hot Cocoa, Spiced Apple Cider, or Rich Eggnog? The holidays are filled with occasions for us to congregate and indulge in calorie packed beverages. An average glass of Eggnog packs over 340 calories and close to 20 grams of fat! Drinking just 10 glasses of Eggnog during the month of December will result in a 1 lb weight gain! This year steer clear of the calorie filled beverages and stick to drinking water.
REASON #2: Deck The Halls with Boughs of Finger Food
