mental health
Mental health and psychology are essential in life extension and leading a healthy and happy life.
The Well Runs Dry
We’ve all heard some version of the saying “You can’t drink from an empty well.” As a stay-at-home mother with anxiety, depression, and a stress disorder that manifests it’s symptoms through paralysis, it is critical to try and keep my well as full as possible. When it’s near empty, it becomes as dangerous as an actual empty well. A seemingly bottomless pit waiting for you to hurl yourself into it. The daily challenges of living as a mom with anxiety and depression make my well seem very shallow. It doesn’t hold much water to begin with, and those reservoirs deplete very quickly when people constantly need to drink from your well every second of every day. It becomes a struggle to refill it as quickly as it is being used.
By Align and Incline Ash and India7 years ago in Longevity
Butterflies in Your Stomach
Have you ever gotten butterflies in your stomach? I sure have. But how? We have a brain-gut connection called enteric or intestinal nervous system. This causes the butterflies but also has many different affects on the body. It also “disturbs the natural rhythmic contractions that move through your gut” (Bergquist). The body does strange things. So that feeling of butterflies, the sweating, nervousness, shaking, all comes from the same place that will push that stress and anxiety that you are feeling into your gut which can cause things like IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome).
By Kyrsten Wagoner7 years ago in Longevity
Stress is Bad... or is it?
For so long stress has been something we see as bad. We know that the side affects of stress can cause real life threatening problems, and too much stress could eventually lead to a heart attack, and even death. Why is that? Why do we picture stress as such a bad thing to have in our life? Maybe it is because everyone I have ever talked to about stress told me that is was bad, and I shouldn’t stress. But stress is inevitable. What am I supposed to do then?
By Kyrsten Wagoner7 years ago in Longevity
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid personality disorder is different from schizophrenia in that schizophrenics are psychotic and delusional because they cannot be swayed from their delusions. People with schizoid avoid social activities, even avoiding people in general. Schizoid individuals are seen as loners who do not want to have a social life. Therapy helps schizoid individuals, as well as medication in some situations. Schizoids prefer being alone to being with other people. Schizoid people do not need close relationships since they do not want to be around people. They have little desire for sexually themed relationships. They would have problems feeling pleasure at anything, expressing emotions, and reacting to situations. They have a humorless, cold veneer to them.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez7 years ago in Longevity
Mental Illness: Treatment Versus Prevention
When sickness strikes, it is a great relief to find that treatments are available. Warmth can ease the common cold, antibiotics can fight bacterial infections, and surgery can realign a broken bone. Last spring I dislocated my shoulder, but since then physiotherapy has helped me regain full use of my arm. New treatments are introduced all the time, looking at everything from stroke rehabilitation to chlamydia. These help improve the lives of countless people across every continent.
By Daniel Peters7 years ago in Longevity
How Does Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Help?
A couple of days ago, I published a blog detailing my struggle with mental health and how BJJ saved me from myself. Now at the time I thought it was more important to focus on getting across the fact, that through training BJJ I was able to help myself and get much better mentally and physically, as well as spiritually to a certain extent. After publishing that blog, I immediately wanted to follow it up but focus more on HOW BJJ helped me, and has helped others. I have gone through my proverbial rolodex of the BJJ community that I know have been in similar situations to myself mentally, to get their thoughts too.
By James Gough7 years ago in Longevity
TBI, Depression, and Memory
After my car accident almost three years ago, the term TBI was tossed around by my doctors for a while. And other terms that were kicked around at appointments were depression and emotional lability. I had no idea at the time what emotional lability really meant, until the first time I exploded over nothing. Emotional lability is defined as exaggerated changes in mood, including strong feelings like uncontrollable laughing or crying, or heightened irritability or temper. I don't have problems with the uncontrollable laughter, and very rarely have uncontrollable crying, although I cry often, and sometimes for long periods of time. What I mostly suffer from is heightened irritability or temper. My temper since the accident has been outrageous. Little things that never used to bother me can send me into a fit of rage, and that eventually turns into crying (I've always been the kind of person who, when angry enough, will cry). It's unfortunate because it means that the part of my brain that controls emotion is damaged. The doctors never really told me whether there was a chance that my brain could rewire neural pathways that could potentially take the place of that part of my brain, but oftentimes with brain damage, the brain learns to cope without that part and rewires other parts of your brain to help out. Or so I've heard.
By Jessye Gould8 years ago in Longevity
Sweet psycho little strong fragile girl
Her eyes neither flickered or grinned. Her posture never changed not by an inch. Her whole demeanour remained just the same. But someone upstairs tripped a wire in her brain and like a plane she came crashing down... without warning she had vacated.
By Chloe Patton8 years ago in Longevity
The Complexity of Alzheimer’s
5,000,000! Five million, that’s a lot. Currently there are five million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S. That number is climbing at a frightening rate, as there is no known cure to the disease. This disease is corrupting the brains of millions, and although this disease has been exposed to the public through media and news, many of us still struggle to comprehend the gravity of it.
By Clare Woodford8 years ago in Longevity
Making Lists for Happier Brains
Our daily lives, mental health issues (whether it'd be anxiety, borderline or bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, etc), physical health troubles, the pressure we put on ourselves, and our responsibilities in all domains of our living reality can all get extremely overwhelming. Many will keep everything inside, push problems aside, and eventually have their difficulties blow up and create an even bigger hassle to deal with than it would have been in the beginning.
By Rorie O'Fowtree8 years ago in Longevity
