Depression and Rehab
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), approximately one in five Americans suffering with a mood disorder like depression is also battling with alcohol addiction or some other type of ch...
Tag Archives: Stress
Stressful experiences can age brain ‘by years’
Stressful life experiences can age the brain by several years, new research suggests. Experts led by a team from Wisconsin University’s school of medicine and public health in the US found that even one major stressful...
Being mindful through meditation
Research has shown that meditation helps older adults deal with stress and sharpen their minds. Priya Kulasagaran speaks to people about how they incorporate the practice in their daily lives. Meditation may bring up ima...
The truth about post-traumatic stress
Some people go through traumatic events but return to normal life after some adjustment. However, what do you do when the terror of the trauma you experienced doesn’t go away? It’s normal to experience stress in our ...
Stress and your Heart
“*Teck Leong, 33, has been feeling dizzy and has frequent heart palpitations. At work, he is under immense stress to hit his sales target and has been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating unhealthily and staying ...
10 Proven Ways to De-stress
Feeling stressed? Here are highly effective, yet simple ways to release those anxious feelings and find inner calm. In order for us to learn how to de-stress, we must first know what stresses our bodies. When we feel som...
Stress, Be Gone!
Personalized meditation programs, focused breathing exercises, guided imagination and playlists of relaxing sounds to help you de-stress…WellBe, a company that focuses on their consumers well-being as well as givin...
Heart talk: Combat Stress
Stress may be a normal part of life but the effects on your heart can be devastating. Here are highly effective ways to cope with stress and protect your heart Stress is a reality at every stage of life. From infancy all...
Stress Increases Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Experiments on rats at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich has demonstrated that increased release of stress hormones leads to harmful changes in the tau protein in the brain and, ultimately, memory loss. ...