10 Ways to Look After Your Mental Health

You may not realise but really little things can help improve your mental health; check out these 10 ways to look after your mental health: 

1. Talk about your feelings
2. Eat well
3. Keep in touch
4. Take a break
5. Accept who you are
6. Keep active
7. Drink sensibly
8. Ask for help
9. Do something you're good at
10. Care for others

These simple things can help you feel so much better about yourself, so feeling down? Why not try some of these out! 

Eight Tips for Healthy Eating

8 Tips for Healthy Eating

Eating a healthy balanced diet is a very important part of life in order to keep yourself fit and of course healthy, at lesser risk of catching colds and other annoying illnesses. Not only that is can also help to make you feel better and good about yourself!

The key to a healthy diet is to eat the right amount of calories, eating too little calories for your body can be just as harmful as eating way too many; and eat a wide variety of food so that your body can get all the things it needs such as: protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and nutrients.

Chronic Pain - Back Pain

Easy Ways to Relieve Back Pain at Work

Chronic Pain covers a lot, back pain included, and back pain can be quite a common thing in the workplace. Here is a guide to help relieve back pain at work. The guide explains what can cause back pain and how you can stop it. 

Mental Health

It's Time to Talk. Charities are urging people with mental health issues to speak up about their problems as they believe this will help! Suffering from mental health problems? Well, visit this site to find out more about how you can talk out about your problems...

http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/talk-about-mental-health

5 ways to handle chronic pain

5 ways to deal with chronic pain:

1. Find a pain specialist
2. Don't chase your pain with pills
3. Do your homework
4. Epidurals and other nerve blocks and
5. Manage your expectations.

For further information on all these points visit this website: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/health/expert-chronic-pain

Dealing with Depression

"Depression drains your energy, hope, and drive, making it difficult to do what you need to feel better. But while overcoming depression isn’t quick or easy, it’s far from impossible. You can’t beat it through sheer willpower, but you do have some control—even if your depression is severe and stubbornly persistent. The key is to start small and build from there. Feeling better takes time, but you can get there if you make positive choices for yourself each day." For more information visit: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_tips.htm

What is Acupuncture? What are the benefits?

Acupunture originates from China and has been practiced there for thousand of years. Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through a patients skin as specific points on the body. It is known that acupuncture has some therapeutic benefits, including pain relief and alleviation from nausea caused by chemotherapy. Acupuncture usually involves several weekly or fortnightly treatments and most sessions last about 30 minutes.
Some studies indicate that acupuncture may help in treating low back pain, migraines, post operative dental pain, hypertension, nausea and vomiting. For further information click this link where you'll be taken to a website explaining it all in more detail. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156488.php

Chronic Pain Syndrome

http://www.brianbarr.co.uk/chronic_pain_syndrome/

Here you can find out what types of accident or trauma could cause chronic pain syndrome, and how you can claim if you believe you have this syndrome due to an accident. If you have an accident or trauma and the pain lasts over 3 to 6 months it is then described as Chronic, this is when chronic pain syndrome comes into it: Chronic pain syndrome is a syndrome which refers to persistent pain that doesn't tend to have an identifiable source. It is often caused by a minor or major injury but doesn't always appear straight away, but a short period after; which sometimes means it can take a while to actually diagnose. Due to it being so unspecific and not having an identifiable source chronic pain syndrome can have a very poor response to therapy.

Treating Depression

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/depression/treatingdepression_000604.htm

Depression IS treatable. However, depression doesn't just go away straight away it takes time, but with the right and most effective treatment for the depression it will eventually be treated and cured.

Types of treatment for depression are:

• antidepressant tablets
• talking treatments such as: counselling
• mood stabilising medications and
• support

These are the most common types of treatments, however, there are others which aren't used as much which are:

• ECT - Electroconvulsive Therapy 
• special types of surgery (psychosurgery) and
• SAD - bright light therapy for seasonal affective disorder

And potential treatments which may still be experimental or more evidence is needed or order to begin using them are:

• Herbal remedies and
• TMS - trans-cranial magnetic stimulation
• 
  

What puts you at risk of depression?

There are many things that can trigger depression and cause somebody to get it. These triggers are:

Family History

• other members of family having depression
• traumatic childhood experiences such as: violence

Lifestyle

• excessive alcohol consumption
• recreational or party drugs
• social isolation
• lack of sleep
• poor diet or lack of exercise

Events

• death or loss of someone close
• relationship break ups
• traumatic life events
• financial pressure
• unemployment
• serious accidents
• long term illness
• medication
• stress of problems at work, school or university
• bullying or abuse
• some women can experience depression during and/or after pregnancy

Coping and Support for Mental Illnesses

The four key things to help you cope with mental illnesses are:

1. Learn about your mental illness,
2. Join a support group,
3. Stay connected with friends and family and
4. Keep a journal.

For further information on all four of these ideas on how to cope with mental illness visit this website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mental-illness/DS01104/DSECTION=coping-and-support

Mental Health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health

"Mental Health describes a level of psychological well being, or an absence of a mental disorder. From the perspective of 'positive psychological' or 'holism', mental healthy may include an individuals ability to enjoy life, and create a balance life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Mental health can also be defined as an expression of emotions, and as signifying a successful adaptation to a range of demands" 

Yoga Headstands for Beginners

A common yoga position is a headstand. The video below shows you a step by step of how to do the perfect headstand and how to do it right without injuring yourself. Headstands increase nutrients and blood flow to the scalp decreasing onset of grey hair, they also strengthen deep core muscles. Furthermore, by reversing the flow of gravity a headstand stimulates a 'face lift'. The inverted position of the headstand flushes fresh nutrients and oxygen to the face. 

Yoga Headstand for Beginners - GetFitWithLeyla:

Yoga for Beginners

http://www.wikihow.com/Do-Yoga-for-Absolute-Beginners

Creating a better mental well being within yourself or even trying to become healthier doesn't mean you have to partake n strenuous exercising, why not try a bit of yoga? But.. Never done yoga before? Well the link above shows all beginners how to do yoga. Furthermore, below is an image showing simple but effective yoga positions which can be done daily to help weight loss and create a better mental well being.

Benefits of Acupuncture

Health Benefits of Acupuncture:

• Asthma
• Anxiety
• Fibromyalgla
• Depression
• Cystitls
• Headaches
• Insomnia
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Chronic Low back pain
• Strengthens the immune system 
• Improves blood circulation
• Helps overcome certain addictions such as: smoking, alcohol and drugs. 

The Fast Diet helping with Chronic Pain?

The Fast Diet. This is a very common diet which people are on at the moment to get their summer bodies. However, a particular person who has been on The Fast Diet for the past couple weeks has even found that it is helping with pain relief. Cherylee Houston, who has a form of the rare painful tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and has to use a wheelchair, has recently been feeling less pain due to this diet.

Read more at: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/the-fast-diet-corrie-and-chronic-pain/

Foods that can help beat depression

One reason that could cause depression is poor nutrition, meaning a slight change in your diet could help and stop depression. Here are 5 foods for beating depression:

• Fish Oils
• Brown Rice
• Brewer's Yeast
• Whole grain oats and
• Cabbage

http://www.naturalnews.com/020611_depression_nutrition.html

Mental Well Being

Being healthy isn't just about dieting and exercising to make yourself feel better, it is also your mental well being. Mental health is very important and there are some very common mental illnesses such as: depression and anxiety. But here are five steps to having a positive mental well being:

• Connect; with people around you such as family and friends.
• Be active
• Keep learning; learn new skills for sense of achievement and new confidence
• Give to others and 
• Take notice; be more aware of the present moment

This NHS page gives more detail on how to keep a positive mental well being and also has links to pages about mental health illnesses and how to deal with them: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/improve-mental-wellbeing.aspx

NHS - Food Allergy

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/food-allergy/Pages/Intro1.aspx
This is a more professional approach to what food allergies are, what the common symptoms are, what causes them, treatment and who is affected.

The most common causes of food allergies are: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. Food allergies are caused when the immune system mistakenly treats proteins found in food as a threat to the body, when in fact they should be harmless. When it comes to treating food allergies there actually aren't any treatments which can fully cure it. However, finding out what food is causing the allergic reaction and avoiding it in the future is the most obvious and common treatment. Although there are medications to take which can calm down the symptoms, so for further information just visit the link above.

Food Allergies

Food allergies are very common within people and can be one of the reasons  you think you can't have a healthy diet/ lifestyle as there are certain foods you can't eat. However, this isn't true as there are many alternatives. For example; if you have a nut allergy there are certain foods that can be eaten as alternatives. Visit this site to find out more --- Battle your nut allergy with 6 healthy alternatives

A rash. A common symptom of an allergy.

But. What are food allergies?
"A food allergy is an adverse immune response to a food protein"
Further information on what it really is, signs, symptoms and how it can be prevented and treated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_allergy
at: