I Survived Depression - so can YOU!

Have you ever had to do something and just the thought of doing it made you break out in a sweat and your heart begin to race? Maybe you were contemplating driving across a bridge or maybe it was a job interview, maybe it was meeting someone for the first time.

Have you ever felt the need to make sure that you locked the front door to your house after you were already down the block or worse yet maybe across town? Have you ever felt really nervous about something that other people around you thought were no big deal?

To make the situation worse, along with these feelings you probably felt very self conscious and thought “what’s wrong with me”? Did you wonder why others could cross that bridge, or speak in public or ask someone for a date?

For anyone who has ever experienced these feeling you need to understand that what you are experiencing is ANXIETY and it is estimated that there are as many as 18 million people who go through the same type of experiences when faced with similar situations.

As a matter of fact, medical professionals agree that anxiety is one of the most common medical problems today. Anxiety does not just consist of a sudden rush of emotions, like many would believe. Anxiety affects an individual on the whole. It affects how a person feels, how a person thinks, and even how a person behaves on a day-to-day basis. (more…)

The loss of a loved one is never easy, but losing your spouse can be especially devastating. It does not matter if the death was anticipated because of a terminal condition, or not. The sense of loss is still overpowering and can lead to bouts of depression.

The Symptoms

Depression is when a person feels sad and unhappy, and the world just plain looks gloomy. In many cases depression is short-lived and will go away on its own as circumstances improve. In other cases, severe depression may need to be treated with medication and counseling. In severe cases the depressed person wakes up in the morning with a feeling of “why bother” and many times even has trouble getting out of bed. The emotional symptoms of depression can include: (more…)

Did you ever feel like you were coming down with a cold just by going out side? You were fine inside, but just by going outdoors your sinuses got congested, your eyes began to water and you felt like you were getting sick. If you ever have had this happen to you, you’re not alone; about 40 million people suffer like this. What you are experiencing is not a virus or a cold, but seasonal allergies.

Allergies are caused by plants releasing into the air millions of spores of pollen that travels from plant to plant. Many plants are brightly colored and sweetly scented so that they attract insects that will touch down on them and when they fly away take spores with them as they move from flower to flower.

Other flowers that are not at all attractive, in either scent or appearance, rely on the wind for the pollen to be spread. When the pollen is thrust into the air humans as well as wildlife inhale it. Some humans have a genetic tendency to have an adverse reaction to the pollen.

It is not hard to tell if you are suffering from allergies. Some very easily recognized symptoms include: (more…)

Whether you are looking at the start of a long cold or flu season, or you are the type of person who worries about this sort of thing all year round, you already know that immune deficiency disorders are nothing to sneeze at! The common cold is simply a viral problem that, though it can be associated with more than a hundred different viruses, will typically include a sore throat, a runny nose, coughing, sneezing and a general depletion of energy. Most adults get colds about two to four times a year, while in children, that number can be easily doubled.

Colds are quite contagious and we can pick them up easily from being in places where other people have them. You can get them from the air when people cough or sneeze, and you can also pick them up by making contact with a contaminated surface that an infected person has coughed on. It is often hard to tell who might be infected with the common cold as the most transmutable stage is often slightly before the worst of the symptoms set in.

It is hard to avoid contact with the cold virus altogether, but there is a good chance that simply by taking a few precautions, you can prevent getting infected, or if you do get infected, you can make sure that it is not something that will linger on for very long. Many people know a few tricks for taking care of a cold, but you’ll find that there are many things that you can do to make sure that your cold is taken care of quickly. (more…)