Archive for January, 2011

Connected: Physical and Mental Health

While not everyone will buy into the idea, the fact is that if you feel good physically, then you are probably mentally fit as well. Your body is connected physically and mentally and the same things that make your body feel good, will make you feel good emotionally too.

We all experience low self-esteem at times. Some of the things that cause us to have a low self-esteem is how we look. If we are physically out of shape and don’t like our appearance, it will affect us emotionally and can cause you to have a mental disorder or condition. We can become depressed or stressed over gaining weight. Stress and anxiety are part of life and mentally, some of us can handle it, while other people may sink.

Having a good balanced diet and exercising are ways to keep our bodies in shape, but they also help us mentally as well. Looking good on the outside makes us feel good on the inside. If you are having issues that are effecting your self-esteem, it can cause you to seek solace in food or things that are bad for you like drugs, alcohol, and smoking. These are things you should avoid to have good physical health.

A daily exercise routine is helpful in keeping physically fit which will benefit you mental as well. Get outside and do things you enjoy to help you stay mentally fit. Engage in activities that bring you joy, help you build positive relationships. Other things that help you to stay fit mentally and physically is getting a dog. Taking your dog for a walk not only gets you exercise, but helps the pet and having a pet will actually help relieve stress and it can also help in filling some of the loneliness you might be feeling in your life. There are other things that can help in relieve stress as well and what works for one person may not work for another.

Just What is Tardive Dyskinsea?

There are many children who suffer from tardive dyskinsea. Now some people out there might not know what this is. Tardive dyskinsea is a form of diskinsea, which is just an involuntary movement these are repetitive body movements such as jerking. The tardive is a form of it. This is a slow movement or otherwise defined as a belated onset. This is said to be hard to treat; very hard to treat.

A child who might have this might show signs of lip smacking or rapid eye blinking among other things as well. It’s easy to compare this to those who have parkinsons disease to help a person gather an idea of what doctors are trying to explain to those who don’t understand what tardive dyskinsea is. To help a person understand, one who suffers from Parkinson’s disease will find that it’s hard to move. The person who has tardive dyskinsea has the opposite problem.

Many parents of children who are diagnosed with this wonder what would have caused this. This has been said to be caused by strong doses of neurologic medicine. Mothers to be might have been told to stop any medication that they are on, but if a mother continues using depression medicine and so forth, if not monitored properly, the child could suffer from this. In many cases, the fetus had become addicted to this and after the child is born, it could take months or even years to get the drug out of their system.

This is what tardive dyskinsea is. The medical field didn’t know much about it until fifty years ago. Now that researchers know more, they are trying to find medicines which will altar the effects that these drugs have had on children. Drugs that deal with dopamine levels are the worse and will cause many to be diagnosed with tardive dysinsea.